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Post by walrus on May 26, 2020 8:12:03 GMT
A friend drew my attention to something he found in an old magazine - Football League Review from 1968. It seems that around the same time Leeds famously switched to playing in all white, there were some at Stoke who were keen to scrap red and white as our main colours in favour of "evergreen green" or "azure blue". I'm not sure how to do an image but the screenshot of the article is here. imgur.com/a/NoB6me8Is there anybody around that remembers this being discussed at the time? |
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Post by somersetstokie on May 26, 2020 8:46:55 GMT
Stoke's traditional kit is red and white striped shirts with white shorts and socks. I'm not sure about 1968 but when I first used to watch the team in the 1880's their first strip was navy and cardinal hoops with white shorts or "knickerbockers" as we called them then, and hooped stockings.This changed to black and blue hoops before the club settled on red and white stripes in 1883.
However, in 1891, probably on insistence from Arsenal, a change of rules was imposed and the Football League decided that only one club could use one style of strip per season and Sunderland were allowed to take red and white stripes. So between 1891 and 1908 Stoke used a variety of kits with plain maroon being the most common. In 1908, Stoke lost their League status and were able to finally revert to their preferred red and white and when they re-joined the league in 1919 the one strip, one club, rule had been scrapped. Since then, Stoke have forever used red and white striped shirts, with the only time when they varied from this was for two seasons in the mid-1980s, which saw them wear a pin-striped shirt.
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Post by Dutchpeter on May 26, 2020 9:07:24 GMT
Stoke also had a short lived claret shirt with thin white stripes in the late 1960s.
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Post by Cast no shadow on May 26, 2020 9:10:32 GMT
So a former journo was trying push his own agenda, how very modern.
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Post by AlliG on May 26, 2020 11:07:11 GMT
Stoke also had a short lived claret shirt with thin white stripes in the late 1960s. If I remember correctly at the time that was described as a "winter" kit and was made of a thicker material. |
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Post by lordb on May 26, 2020 11:30:42 GMT
A friend drew my attention to something he found in an old magazine - Football League Review from 1968. It seems that around the same time Leeds famously switched to playing in all white, there were some at Stoke who were keen to scrap red and white as our main colours in favour of "evergreen green" or "azure blue". I'm not sure how to do an image but the screenshot of the article is here. imgur.com/a/NoB6me8Is there anybody around that remembers this being discussed at the time? Before my time but have seen something about this 'Wedgewood Blue' was suggested to replace the 'tired' stripes. |
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Post by sheds1862 on May 26, 2020 12:34:48 GMT
Stoke also had a short lived claret shirt with thin white stripes in the late 1960s. If I remember correctly at the time that was described as a "winter" kit and was made of a thicker material. What a bunch of jessies |
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Post by AlliG on May 26, 2020 14:35:22 GMT
If I remember correctly at the time that was described as a "winter" kit and was made of a thicker material. What a bunch of jessies Unlike modern day players with their thermal tops under their kit.  I think it was only worn a couple of times because the players didn't like them because the material soaked up water when it rained. (I thought that all strips at the time did that but these must have been even worse).  link |
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Post by somersetstokie on May 26, 2020 16:34:00 GMT
A friend drew my attention to something he found in an old magazine - Football League Review from 1968. It seems that around the same time Leeds famously switched to playing in all white, there were some at Stoke who were keen to scrap red and white as our main colours in favour of "evergreen green" or "azure blue". I'm not sure how to do an image but the screenshot of the article is here. imgur.com/a/NoB6me8Is there anybody around that remembers this being discussed at the time? Before my time but have seen something about this 'Wedgewood Blue' was suggested to replace the 'tired' stripes. Whatever the debate, Stoke continued to play in red and white stripes, rather than "Wedgwood Blue," unlike Wedgwood FC, who do actually play in Blue.  If we had played in evergreen green, we could have had a "Green Army." |
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2020 20:03:30 GMT
Unlike modern day players with their thermal tops under their kit. I think it was only worn a couple of times because the players didn't like them because the material soaked up water when it rained. (I thought that all strips at the time did that but these must have been even worse). link Leicester's Keith Weller wearing tights and Norwich Keeper Kevin Keelan dressed as some kind of Santa's workshop Elf. |
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Post by AlliG on May 27, 2020 10:32:00 GMT
Unlike modern day players with their thermal tops under their kit. I think it was only worn a couple of times because the players didn't like them because the material soaked up water when it rained. (I thought that all strips at the time did that but these must have been even worse). link Leicester's Keith Weller wearing tights and Norwich Keeper Kevin Keelan dressed as some kind of Santa's workshop Elf. Poor old Keith Weller. He had the **** taken out of him for years after he wore that outfit. Imagine what it was like to have played in this kit when it rained!  /arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-expressandstar-mna.s3.amazonaws.com/public/XJK674UYHFEKFJKPYUTC4WLHXM) |
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Post by sirgreenhoff on May 27, 2020 15:11:48 GMT
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Post by kentpotter on May 28, 2020 22:06:43 GMT
Not being funny, but I've put up the article from an early 1960s 'Ceramic City Clipper' about the discussion/ideas for a change of strip several times. Have a trawl through and I'm sure you'll find it.
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