And they usually have a beer belly. I think men who are proud of their bodies probably prefer something smart. The football shirt (like leggings on women) are really for those that have given up on their looks and have settled into that comfortable stage of not giving a ****.
The fact that some fans choose to wear a football shirt as 'casual-wear' in public is PRECISELY why they shouldn't be given any say in the sartorial matters of design.......
Okay, here's the deal. Give us back our stripes and I promise not to purchase a replica for beachwear.
maybe they should just re-draw the tree and the water? It's only those two things that give it the air of a crayon drawing.
I don't really know why there's such a call for such and such a kit. All I personally would like is something that doesn't make us look like a pub team out on a Sunday kickabout, like the present Home kit leans towards. If that means stripes, OK, but please, make them look good, so that when the players come out the tunnel there is a sense that they are already at an advantage. Recent examples of this were the Brazil kit, or the Championship striped kit at times, or dare I say it, even our present Away kit. My preference for a new Home kit based on the Florida/Xerox design is simply because I thought that one made the players look great, and balls to so-called traditions. As for personal wear by fans, I have 3 Saints shirts, 2 England shirts and 1 Chelsea one [my 99 year old Mum still persists in thinking I'm a Chelsea fan - it's a long story if you haven't read it, PMs only]. The best looking one is probably one of the England shirts. Simple, elegant and very good for including in summertime sailing gear. But the thing is, wear what you bloody well want, and if that is a Saints shirt from the 1920s then that's your choice. I don't wear my 1990s and 2003 shirts because I look like a berk in them. I look OK in the England shirt previously mentioned.
Saints fan Rolland Parris designed it, as part of a competition in the early 1970's. I believe he still goes to games, despite being in his late 80's. It equally amazes me and makes me despair how fans of our club can know so little about the club's history.
Perhaps they're not interested in the details of history, and only interested in what's happening now (not unlike our music discussion on t'other thread). Neither of those standpoints is wrong per se. Personally, I have *some* interest in the history of the club, but in all honesty the history that I'm particularly interested in started when I began going to games. I suspect you'll find the same is true of most, but sadly that doesn't conform to your world view of how things should be. I get that. That's cool, but it's your lookout Ceebs!
Black death - which wiped out about a third of the English population, made its entrance through the port of Southampton. This key event in history should be honoured, so how abouts we put a couple of disease-infested rats on the new re-designed badge. Perhaps either side of a half-submerged Titanic, which should be the main feature. Maybe we could squeeze a silhouette of Benny Hill chasing a scantily clad woman onto it also. Any more ideas?
I thought it was Sunderland, but as I type I remember that was the location for a major outbreak of cholera about 200 years ago.
Got a sneaky feeling we might be Sir Ben Ainslie's home port for his new British challenge for the Americas Cup. Would be brilliant if he won it again, this time on a British boat and Southampton was his base.
