[Official Site] REDS TO WEAR BLACK AT LEYTON

I agree, just seems silly to bash them here specifically. This is on the club and Puma.

In fact I think this points to Puma being a lot of the issue with Fanatics shirts, too. However the communication/support from Fanatics is shocking so that's obviously their fault still.

 

Tinpot

 

That can’t be right. We can’t have one away kit, which we wash after every away game. Kits only get used once. It’s not 1954.

 

Isn't that basically what Argentina did before their QF with England in 1986? I'm sure I read about them having kit supply issues so having to choose an off the peg one specially for that match.

 

I used to have one. if it means owt.
About 40yrs ago lol.

 

So we play in red and we've chosen a change strip in a colour which still clashes with red for colour blind people, so we can't actually wear it against other teams who play in red? Genius!

On a more practical point, surely it would have made quite a lot of sense to have worn black against Exeter, bearing in mind they play in red and white stripes?

 

Fanatics don’t make the kit or even have anything to do with the kit design (this season). They simply act as a conduit to supply it.

So the reality is, it’s Puma/BFC who are behind the delays. BFC were late in for approval. Puma probably have struggled.

If Fanatics don’t have the kit, they can’t supply it. I’m not saying they’re any good either, but I do feel for this season, they were shafted from the start.

I’m starting to feel that the silence from the club might be due to legal complications - or that they are guilty, and don’t wish to have the finger pointed at them.

 

I'm only concerned that we win the game & keep pressure on the top two, who are some way adrift of us, with our poor home form, where it must be reminded, we wear our traditional red shirts, (or somewhat traditional with the controversy about that kit with some fans).

I'd hope the manager & the squad are more focused on issues on the pitch.

It does seem a good gesture by Leyton Orient to swap to white in the circumstances, for that they deserve some credit. Still hope we beat them though...

 

It's a great story is that. It was because they got to Mexico and realised the official kit they had was made out of material not conducive with the extreme heat. So their kitman was sent out to the local shops to find shirts made out of lighter material. Steve Hodge got Maradona's shirt, sold it at auction a few years back for £7m.

From an ESPN article.
The shirt was made specially for that quarterfinal, played on June 22, 1986 in the blistering Mexico City sun. The story goes that Argentina's cotton jerseys were too heavy for the heat, so manager Carlos Bilardo and Ruben Moschella, the team's technical assistant, searched for an alternative option. "We ran from one side of the city to the other with a backpack," Moschella later said in the book Maradona: The Boy. The Rebel. The God. He came back with two choices, one a darker blue and the other a lighter shade. The decision was made by Maradona who strolled in, saw the lightly striped, blue number, saying: "We'll beat England in that one."

Then it came down to local seamstresses. They had to sew on the Argentina badges and, because Moschella could only find numbers made for American football uniforms, iron on the numbers. If you look at the Maradona shirt in Sotheby's, you can see the badge looks like it's only loosely attached to the fabric -- the edges slowly peeling away because of the rushed, hand-stitched sewing. The numbers on the various shirts are also uneven and are a bizarre, sparkly silver color.

"The numbers were a joke," Maradona wrote in his book, Touched by God. "When we went out on to the field, some of the guys had sparkles on their face because the numbers were silver and sparkling. If it had happened to rain, like it had in our match against Uruguay, it was going to be a real disaster: we wouldn't know who was who or what position the others were playing."

 

Wow! Some people will get upset at the most trivial of things. It’s a bloody football shirt for Christ sake. Life must be f*@“ing rosey if you think something like this worth worrying and getting irate about.

I’m now sure some folk just love to overreact at anything. Reminds me of the song ‘I’m only happy when it rains’ by Garbage….

It doesn’t matter what colour the kit is - it’s still 11 of us and 11 of them, on a patch of grass with two nets at either end and a bladder of air to kick about for an hour and half.

 

Quite impressive that they only realised once arriving in Mexico that cotton shirts were completely impractical! I didn't realise that the numbers were sparkly American football ones. Brilliant!

 

Send Khaled round to Sports Direct and at the same time call at that haberdashers in the market.Back to Oakwell and get the office staff cracking.

 

Solutions. Like it.

 

If we went down that route then they'd be danger we'd come onto the pitch looking like early 90's Kevin Rowland

 

I'll park this one,

 

Get ready for Mr Dawson wanting one.

 

Not irate in the slightest. More full of pity for some folk…