Comments on: Arsenal plan to drop white sleeves from their shirts – again

By: Ralph

Ralph — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:55:57 +0000

Firstly the white sleeves.

No idea why you should think that they came into being in 1925 – I’ve never seen anyone think that before as the story of them coming into being in 1933 is pretty well known to be honest. Maybe you’re confusing Chapman’s arrival (1925) with the kits change (1933)?

As for the maroon – I agree with you. I did some research at the time and there is absolutely no evidence for us playing in that colour when we went to Highbury. Cigarette cards of the day show us in a deep red colour and whilst any colour photo’s tend to have been hand tinted they also show the deep red colour. However there are a couple of postcards around (1906) which do show a maroonish kit much like the one used for the last season at Highbury.

So where did the story come from? Well when we played Sparta Prague in the late ’90s one of their directors mentioned that they had based their kit colour on the Arsenal kit after playing us in 1909(?). That one anecdote is where the whole thing comes from.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 15:22:13 +0000

yeah. aren’t we great?

By: Migaloo

Migaloo — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:42:38 +0000

Too be honest we could play in bin liners and I’d still love this club.

By: admin

admin — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:01:59 +0000

BW: There’s two things that worry me about the historical kits site.

First, if you take it to be valid, then we were all conned by the maroon shirt for the last year at Highbury because they don’t show that at all.

Second, we might ask, where is the evidence? The site does not state where the information comes from. A lot of this is just handed on from one writer to another, but it is impossible to find the source.

So either we think that site is wrong because there is no maroon, or else we think it is right, and we were done in the last year at Highbury.

By: Jack Staniforh

Jack Staniforh — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:21:03 +0000

Over sixty years an Arsenal supporter and I can only ever see them in red shirts with white sleeves but wait….changing the shirt means the`must haves` will be queing up to grab the latest in Gooner fashion and that`s more cash in the til. Gee!I`m a sentimental old fool.

By: bw

bw — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:00:29 +0000

here’s dial sq

http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Arsenal/Arsenal.htm

By: GoonerVance

GoonerVance — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:21:50 +0000

I like the Home kit we have now. The 89′ yellow homage that we wore last year is my favorite away kit ever, but my judgement might be a bit impaired because that’s the kit we wore when Arshavin banged in 4 at Anfield. For the third kit I really liked the white shirt with maroon trim and striped socks, but it looks too much like our version of the Scum kit. So sticking with the white pinstripes from this year ain’t a bad idea.

By: migaloo

migaloo — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:53:47 +0000

I liked the red current shirt and would’ve like us to have kept it as the 3rd strip, whilst retaining the originality of the red and white and the yellow and blue kit for both home and away.