Probably what Wolves thought about City's kit when we were formed 9 years after they were wearing this kit. please log in to view this image please log in to view this image
The Wolves shirts in the original post have a thin black stripe coming down from the centre of the neck, ours hasn't. Their first shirts were a rather dark shade of their town colours, verging on brown from the descriptions. Bit of a slow day in Norway?
Don't mind pinstripes. For others. We wouldn't have got our nickname if we had started off in pinstripes. Must say I prefer the Woves one.
It's the amber socks, you're never going to have a decent looking kit with amber socks. ****ing obvious.
Wolves were founded in 1877 as St Lukes and played in red and white stripes, blue shorts and blue socks.
Wolves began as a school side, St Luke's FC in 1877. Two years later they merged with another local side, Wanderers FC and became Wolverhampton Wanderers. Initially they played in blue and white and we have assumed that there earliest jerseys were hooped, the most usual arrangement for this period. Vertically striped shirts were worn when Wanderers won the Wrekin Cup in 1883-84 and may have appeared earlier. In the course of his research, Michael Capewell has discovered the first reference to the team playing in red and white in a contemporary newspaper report of a match with West Bromwich Albion played on 4 September 1886.
I think this is more like it! I said something similar a couple of years ago when their Adidas kit looked like one of our older Adidas kits.
We're halfway through a 4 year Umbro deal, but I can't see us going with Puma when it finishes. Can't have two feline carnivores on the same shirt can we?
City Man obviously doesn't understand the order of things. Wolves, as your post shows, weren't founded in 1977 or whatever, they came about as the results of an amalgamation, just as other clubs took on the name of the town or city where they were previously clubs representing working men's' clubs, churches and other organisations.
Wolves first had a black pinstripe kit in 1982, some time before us (though we did have one with red pinstripes). The one you show, and the Wolves one, are better as their having a pinstripe from the centre of the collar means you can place the badge between the stripes and not on top of one where it looks like an afterthought. Though in City's case an afterthought is probably what it was.
Pinstripes are a ****ing abomination (there's a word). I really liked the hooped socks we had. It's all by the by anyway as I fully expect us to change our colours and play in ****ing red or something soon. Remember Allam said he'd never change our colours? Yeah you got it. Stone cold certainty
