Comments on: A Short History of the Manchester United Kit

By: Deco

Deco — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:26:37 +0000

A short, poorly written and wholy inaccurate history of United kits would be a better title.

What significance does the year 1892 have? Newton Heath were formed in 1878!

After the change of name in 1902 they wore home kits of red shirts, white shorts and black socks until 1922 when they wore white home shirts with red diamonds over the shoulders until switching back to red in 1927. Blue stripes were away colours and they never, ever wore red stripes.

The only shirts to feature “Wembley emblems” were those worn at Wembley in cup finals. Regular match shirts did not have any badges until 1972.

What exactly were the “loose and ugly colors” worn in the 70′s? United continued to wear their traditional red home kits, white away and blue third kits (although there was one breif period of tellow and blue third kits).

There was never a “large Adidas advertisement” on the shirts, the first sponsor was Sharp, and it was actually Liverpool who “changed the sponsorship of clubs forever” when they signed a shirt sponsorship deal with Hitachi several years earlier.

Some research before writing is always a good start.

By: JEF

JEF — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:38:23 +0000

supported united since early 50s. was black socks in the 50s, white in early 60s, and red socks from mid 60s to 1972. also played in a all red strip v real madrid in the 1957 european cup semi/final and a 1st division match against bolton wanderers the previous week, 8 years before that mob in liverpool changed to all red.

By: balls deeeeep

balls deeeeep — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:39:59 +0000

red-white-black.

thats it. hate the white socks we wear in europe. just not right. re black shorts, i dont recall them ever being first choice – however. against certain teams away we always wear them with red shirts – any team with no red on the shirt and white shorts – b’burn, everton, leeds etc

By: vlk

vlk — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:29:30 +0000

Black socks. For more than 70 years, United have worn black socks. You don’t just change that because some trend hopper thinks white is the shit. Or red.

Red and white is a number of teams.

Red, white and black is Manchester United. Period. All others are copies of the original. Never mess with that.

By: Kyle-AusGooner

Kyle-AusGooner — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 07:00:19 +0000

Umm, It is called a ‘SHORT History of Man U Kits’ not, ‘THE ENTIRE ENCYCLOPEDICAL HISTORY Of the Man U shirt’…

By: KingOfZamunda

KingOfZamunda — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 19:29:58 +0000

Matt- it was worth it just to read your comment at the end!! No ‘fence Jonathan, just made the experience worthwhile that bit of humour at the end, your article delves not into any real history nor does it do justice to the title of your piece. Good luck next time.

By: Sarg

Sarg — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:52:58 +0000

These days they rotate between white shorts/socks and black shirt/socks depending on what the opposition are wearing.
But the Red Shirt White Shorts and Black socks is what I can remember as far back as the early 90s.

By: I Bet Fair

I Bet Fair — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:57:16 +0000

When I was growing up United always had black socks at home.
Somewhere along the line they started wearing white socks at home – for what reason ?

I’ve heard it said that the players prefer the white socks as it helps them identify teammates better on the pitch.

There is also the myth that United wore the black socks as a tribute to the 1958 Munich air disaster, but can anyone actually confirm this ?

They wore red in the 60s, so it was a belated tribute if it was one at all.

I think Red shirts, white shorts (black aweay from home) and white socks is the best looking combo.

Thoughts ???

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 12:33:18 +0000

well, that’s 3 minutes of my life i’ll never get back