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Football’s lords and masters forever fret about the image of the game, forgetting it has been making its own images for over a hundred years and needs no help from the charlatans behind misguided marketing strategies. This month’s guide takes you to some of the best and worst places online to forage around for football’s colourful heritage. Classic Kits is a retrospective treasure trove of yesterday’s colours and a simple, virtually text-free depiction of English club kits over the past century or so. Although the site admits to having lifted much of its content from Bob Bickerton’s book Club Colours, it is nonetheless a useful resource for settling that eternal staple of football pedants – the pointless and trivial dispute over historical minutiae. And it continues to be both backdated and updated.
A perusal of various club colours may, however, raise more questions than it answers. Why did Leyton Orient go all Croatian in 1998? Is there any width of red stripe that Brentford have not yet tried on their shirts? Why are Coventry the only side that have experimented with both all-brown and all-black strips? What drugs were the Bolton kit designers on in the 1890s, when they followed a pink shirt with polka-dot red on white? And is it a coincidence that Manchester City used to win trophies back in the 1960s when they had red in their shirts? From WSC 198 August 2003. What was happening this month On the subject...
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