Strange Kit Decisions

Potts Must Go

Potts Must Go

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Following on from a couple of threads recently about kits, any one remember these bizarre occasions ...

Chesterfield away, circa 1991/2 we played in Tangerine Shirts, and Green Shorts!! I kid you not. It was probably due to some jobsworth official saying that our white shorts clashed with theirs, and us not having a second set of shorts on the bus and we had to borrow their green away shorts.

Similar at Burnley away in a Manx Cup game about 1990. Tangerine Shirts and black shorts, again probably the same reason. They definitely weren't our shorts

Fleetwood FA Cup 1980. We played in a sky blue kit if my mind isn't playing tricks on me. We were the Away Team, and the game was switched to Bloomfield Rd. Our white away kit must've have been deemed unsuitable. We didn't have a third kit at that time, and turned up in some unmarked all sky blue kit.

First home game outside the top two divisions ever, in 1978 Oxford I think, we played in our away kit for some reason.

Anyone think of any more, i'm sure there's been plenty of them. It winds me up sometimes when there's no obvious reason why we cant wear Tangerine yet we have to change kits. Often I see matches on the TV where there looks to be a clash, yet teams play in their first colours. Who decides these things ??
 
Potts Must Go said:
Following on from a couple of threads recently about kits, any one remember these bizarre occasions ...

Chesterfield away, circa 1991/2 we played in Tangerine Shirts, and Green Shorts!! I kid you not. It was probably due to some jobsworth official saying that our white shorts clashed with theirs, and us not having a second set of shorts on the bus and we had to borrow their green away shorts.

Similar at Burnley away in a Manx Cup game about 1990. Tangerine Shirts and black shorts, again probably the same reason. They definitely weren't our shorts

Fleetwood FA Cup 1980. We played in a sky blue kit if my mind isn't playing tricks on me. We were the Away Team, and the game was switched to Bloomfield Rd. Our white away kit must've have been deemed unsuitable. We didn't have a third kit at that time, and turned up in some unmarked all sky blue kit.

First home game outside the top two divisions ever, in 1978 Oxford I think, we played in our away kit for some reason.

Anyone think of any more, i'm sure there's been plenty of them. It winds me up sometimes when there's no obvious reason why we cant wear Tangerine yet we have to change kits. Often I see matches on the TV where there looks to be a clash, yet teams play in their first colours. Who decides these things ??
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You are spot on. We did play in a sky blue kit because the game was switched.
 
Yes I was at Chesterfield when we wore the bright green shorts, which complemented the Tangerine shirts perfectly. I think we had to borrow Chesterfield’s away shorts as our white shorts clashed with theirs.
Also remember we wore the sky blue kit v Fleetwood and white shirts v Oxford in’78 - I remember giving Dave Wagstaffe a pat on the back of said white shirt at full time.
Edit to add: coincidentally the green shorts are making an appearance on the Tony Rodwell video posted today, presumably the return game of the same season. I’d forgotten that they had a fetching yellow trim.
 
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Jesus, just seen that. Those Green shorts don't even go with Chesterfields Kit, never mine our Tangerine one. Another thing that really gets on my tits is Football Shirt Designers 😡 . That's probably why I haven't bought one since 1985.
 
For the Oxford game Potts mentions I think they changed into their away strip of all red (which incidentally clashed with tangerine more than their normal colours of amber and black). We played in tangerine as normal in the first half but it was very confusing so I think the referee asked us to play in our white away kit in the second half.
 
Didn’t we play in Huddersfield’s shorts and socks a few years back, circa 13/14???
 
How many times did our 125th Anniversay shirt get a competitive airing? It looked quite nice colour wise.
 
That angry face was the colour of my face after the game and it wasn’t the sun tan that caused it!!!
 
BFC_Aspie said:
The time the kit man decided that an all black kit was a good idea at QPR away in August, wasn't it the hottest day of the year as well?
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We had tickets for the London Eye but the metal had expanded and jammed the thing. Train took ages going home because the tracks were becoming malleable in the heat and speed restrictions were put in place. 105 degrees?
 
I remember playing Portsmouth away in the cup where we wore tangerine shirts and the away black shorts
 
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