Away kits question. (1 Viewer)

castellon_skyblue · Wednesday at 10:10 AM

I'm a 1970's supporter sky-blue / green and black change kit. So how many times would we have used our change kit back then?

There was very little tv football, star soccer ,which I think was Stoke City's personal tv channel and motd. Black and white for a lot of us.

Anyway ,would we have only used it once a season when Man City were in the !st div?

NortonSkyBlue · Wednesday at 10:18 AM

No it was used when we played teams in blue or even against Spurs or Leeds. Theres a famous photo with Tommy Hutchison and the toilet roll when we played Spurs and wore brown. No idea why.

Legia Sky Blue · Wednesday at 11:00 AM

Also wore the brown kit at Derby when Steve Hunt made his debut for us.

DazzleTommyDazzle · Wednesday at 11:16 AM

Legia Sky Blue said:
Also wore the brown kit at Derby when Steve Hunt made his debut for us.

That was its first outing

torchomatic · Thursday at 8:11 AM

DazzleTommyDazzle said:
That was its first outing

Was it? I always thought it was the hammering at the Hawthorns. I was there for that.

DazzleTommyDazzle · Thursday at 8:43 AM

No, Derby was in the September (IIRC) and WBA came a few weeks later.

Legia Sky Blue · Thursday at 8:01 PM

Tommy Docherty was Derby's manager and quipped that he thought we would melt in the sun.

Gynnsthetonic · Thursday at 8:04 PM

Didn't we play in all red early 70s too?

Gynnsthetonic · Thursday at 8:07 PM

Found it!

CovRes · Thursday at 8:35 PM

NortonSkyBlue said:
No it was used when we played teams in blue or even against Spurs or Leeds. Theres a famous photo with Tommy Hutchison and the toilet roll when we played Spurs and wore brown. No idea why.

Because on black and white TVs with poor contrast, it could be hard to tell the difference between light colours and white.

play_in_skyblue_stripes · 2025-07-25T06:32:39+0100

NortonSkyBlue said:
No it was used when we played teams in blue or even against Spurs or Leeds. Theres a famous photo with Tommy Hutchison and the toilet roll when we played Spurs and wore brown. No idea why.

We changed. kit against a team in blue and for some reason that stopped.
With my eyes its definitely a colour clash.
It might have been for contractual reasons but played in Sky Blue v Bristol Rovers and for me , it's a colour clash.

DazzleTommyDazzle · 2025-07-25T08:17:38+0100

Gynnsthetonic said:
Didn't we play in all red early 70s too?

Think it was red shirts and blue shorts?

Gynnsthetonic · 2025-07-25T08:44:11+0100

Yes, look above

DazzleTommyDazzle said:
Think it was red shirts and blue shorts?

I'm sure we played in all red too like Liverpool against either Derby or Spurs

rob9872 · 2025-07-25T08:45:44+0100

Gynnsthetonic said:
Found it!
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Wow cheers. Can honestly say I've never seen that kit before. Did we only wear it once?

DazzleTommyDazzle · 2025-07-25T08:46:35+0100

Gynnsthetonic said:
Yes, look above

I'm still sure we wore all red like Liverpool one game away at either Derby or Spurs in the early 70s

Good point - missed that and it was Hutch as well!!

Don’t remember the all red, but sounds plausible against a team with blue/navy shorts.

Gynnsthetonic · 2025-07-25T08:47:56+0100

Gynnsthetonic · 2025-07-25T08:49:17+0100

This was against Derby with blue shorts.
Peter Hindley

Torquay Sky Blue · 2025-07-25T10:20:55+0100

torchomatic said:
Was it? I always thought it was the hammering at the Hawthorns. I was there for that.

I was there for that. Gary Thompson scored our consolation and my old man made us stay to the end. Child cruelty

DazzleTommyDazzle · 2025-07-25T10:36:26+0100

Torquay Sky Blue said:
I was there for that. Gary Thompson scored our consolation and my old man made us stay to the end. Child cruelty

Pretty sure that Fergie got our goal that day. Think it made it 4-1?

CCFC86 · 2025-07-25T10:54:28+0100

Gynnsthetonic said:
Found it!
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25p bargain !

Torquay Sky Blue · 2025-07-25T13:20:48+0100

Torquay Sky Blue said:
I was there for that. Gary Thompson scored our consolation and my old man made us stay to the end. Child cruelty

DazzleTommyDazzle said:
Pretty sure that Fergie got our goal that day. Think it made it 4-1?

I stand corrected. It was Fergie

oscillatewildly · 2025-07-26T00:36:43+0100

Legia Sky Blue said:
Tommy Docherty was Derby's manager and quipped that he thought we would melt in the sun.

Derby fans were singing ‘Brown girls in the ring’.

oscillatewildly · 2025-07-26T00:43:11+0100

NortonSkyBlue said:
No it was used when we played teams in blue or even against Spurs or Leeds. Theres a famous photo with Tommy Hutchison and the toilet roll when we played Spurs and wore brown. No idea why.

Check out A&BC bubble gum cards from late 60’s/ early 70’s and there’s one with Ian Gibson in green & black stripes on the pitch at WHL with a clear image of the shelf behind him.

wingy · 2025-07-26T02:44:32+0100

oscillatewildly said:
Derby fans were singing ‘Brown girls in the ring’.

Oh,that reminds me of a dark history of a murder in the late 70's,and the brutal murder outside of one of the night clubs.

JimmyHillsbeard · 2025-07-26T08:38:07+0100

Gynnsthetonic said:
Found it!
View attachment 44757

Somebody halt the Away kit World Cup … @skybluelee there’s been a non yellow oversight

Gaz71 · 2025-07-26T09:01:22+0100

Also had this all red away kit in the 70’s

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Gynnsthetonic · 2025-07-26T10:30:38+0100

Gaz71 said:
Also had this all red away kit in the 70’s

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And in the yellow version too. The plain yellow with blue round collar worn away at West Ham in the league cup 2nd leg was only worn once

Gynnsthetonic · 2025-07-26T10:32:29+0100

Gynnsthetonic · 2025-07-26T10:35:09+0100

skybluelee · 2025-07-26T11:34:21+0100

JimmyHillsbeard said:
Somebody halt the Away kit World Cup … @skybluelee there’s been a non yellow oversight

I knew I’d miss at least one.

oscillatewildly · 2025-07-26T11:34:27+0100

Gynnsthetonic said:
And in the yellow version too. The plain yellow with blue round collar worn away at West Ham in the league cup 2nd leg was only worn once

Quite possibly the rarest City shirt out there.

oscillatewildly · 2025-07-26T11:38:57+0100

Gynnsthetonic said:
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You’d never get through airport security with those collars.

Gynnsthetonic said:
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Neil Martins head · 2025-07-26T11:48:19+0100

The cherry red shirt and navy collar was worn during season 1974 75. Made its first appearance at the old baseball ground Derby in a 1. 1 draw

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