Shorts - white or red

Twice apologies didn’t read further down when discussion on it

 

Liverpool, Bristol City, Middlesbrough, Leicester, Chelsea - all wore white shorts until the 1960s, more than half their histories.
Add to them virtually all the teams who now play in single coloured strips. Before the sixties practically everybody wore white or black shorts.

 

First things first, I don't particularly support the red shorts. I'd prefer white, but as I've mentioned before, it's a pair of f'ing shorts. It's not the end of the world, it's not worth letting it fester in your head.

But this idea that no other club does this is absolute ********.

Man United had black shorts not white a couple of seasons back.

Spurs? They always play in white tops and blue shorts right? Nope, they regularly swap the shorts to white.

Man City? Always white shorts to contrast with the sky blue top surely? No, they regularly switch to sky blue shorts too.

Liverpool and their all red. I've mentioned it a number of times - they've played more than half their history with white shorts, just because it's been all red for much of our living memory (i.e. from the mid 1960s) doesn't mean it was always all red.

Aston Villa? White shorts for the last 20 years or so but before that they switched between white, claret and light blue pretty often.

Arsenal? They're the outlier, white shorts all the way. But then they're the kings of tradition with things like the captain deciding whether the whole team wears long sleeves or short sleeves etc. They did change their shirt colour for one season in the early 2000s though - don't recall them crying about it though.

Newcastle - black shorts for best part of a century. Blue before that though.

Chelsea - blue shorts for a while but used to think nothing of switching to white on a regular basis. Don't get me started on his often they've meddled with the colour of their socks - blue, white, black, yellow and orange.

Crystal Palace - so many changes! White, claret, blue, black and red. And they've changed their shirt colour three times in the last twenty years (twice to white, once to pretty much plain blue) and a fourth time (to pretty much plain red) a decade before. In the 70s and 80s they regularly had white kits rather than the traditional red and blue stripes.

Everton are like Arsenal, no changes.

Leeds played in combinations of yellow and blue until the 60s when they went all white.

The Blunts swap their black shorts for red or white on a semi regular basis, while the Pigs do the same between black, blue and white.

Southampton? Black, red or white.

Dundee United switch between black and amber. And they also only started wearing amber shirts in the 1960s.

We're not the only club that do this. Other clubs, bigger clubs than us, do it more often and don't bairn about it. Some of them even make far bigger changes and the world keeps on turning.

Again, I prefer white shorts. And I'm not sure I believe the reasons given for the change. But there are bigger issues with the club than this. Social media and website content had become a shambles. The club store has been farmed out to a company with an awful reputation for customer service, a reputation that they've lived up to over the last year. The club don't appear willing or able to tackle the drug issues in the ground. Or the racist and other offensive chanting. Every few games stewards fail to deal with violence in the top corner of the Ponte End until it's too late. The list goes on.

But the shorts...

 

Arsenal have an alternative shirts option for home which is Red.
Not sure of the need or use and am sure they will play predominantly in white but it’s marketed as alternative home.

 

Clearly she is responsible for the design, I just don’t get why people are singling her out for trampling on tradition etc when it would have been the board agreeing.
Why is no one blaming the board just an individual.

 

Couldn’t have said it better. Nobody bats an eyelid at the different combinations of our socks either.

 

The more I see our new kit, the more I like it. When you're watching the games too, you can't tell it's 2 different shades of red.

I'm still firmly in the "not bothered" camp.

 

For those of us who appreciate the male form - white shorts.

 

Kit looked spot on all day night

 

Good job we're not all the same then really, clearly 69% prefer white shorts/tradition