The rumours / leaked kits a while back suggested / showed a luminous yellow & black number…and they weren’t TOO far off, sadly.
Tradition has well ‘n’ truly gone…
Okay, I’m not naïve to the fact that, these days, it’s all about what the “Marketing guys & girls”
think will sell the best, WAY over a football club’s traditions. I don’t think club tradition even comes into
their thoughts anymore. But I’m still not having it!
And I understand also that you can’t always bring out the
same colour away kits each & every year; especially if your intension as a
football club / kit supplier is to GET
those high sales.
However, I’m sure there’s enough room and enough imagination
out there to rotate, to some degree, our more-traditional red &
black and maroon colours. Chuck in a 3rd white’ish kit with flashes of either in it and you’ve got a smart set of
kits there in my humble opinion.
In recent years what the hell is all this black, navy blue
and yellow-flashes (to name just three) all about?! What, in Colin Bell’s name, has any of that got
to do with Manchester City Football Club?
More to the point, why does there never seem to be a ‘fan furore’ about the away kit
colours like there was last season when Nike brought out an all blue home kit
with no white in it? Is nobody going to stand up and shout…Oi! Nnoooo!
I’ve contacted the
club over the years and from time to time whenever we’ve brought out an
abomination and I get mostly ‘standard replies’ about “what sells”; stopping short of
the old England grey-kit line that went, “…it goes well with jeans”. Remember that designers' excuse?
I’ve even contacted
the club to ask why, as other clubs used to do years ago, representative fans
can’t get involved with the design of kits and, similarly, I have always been given
some swift, brush-off answer.
But see what
happens when this DOESN’T happen…
Does this top go
well with jeans? I dunno. But I suppose at least it keeps fans safer crossing
the road at night matches…
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