I have never been into wearing my colours, although I do allow for wearing a small pin badge. I have to say the home top and the away blue effort are absolutely awful this season. Hopefully the other merchandise will be decent.
I've always found kit wearing by fans a slightly odd thing. I assume it started around the 1970's when some footballers became 'superstars' (George Best and others) and Clubs began the commercial sale of replica shirts. I read recently in an old newspaper piece that in the 1930's some fans wore caps (flat caps presumably) in their team's primary colour. Then there were team coloured scarves, which I imagine have been around for nigh on a Century. Caps and scarves, fair enough. Helped to keep out the cold on the terraces. But shirts? I like a lot of things or people in life, but I don't want to dress like them. Indeed usually that behaviour is regarded as geeky - like the people you see at sci-fi conventions, or the 'super-fans' of pop stars. I've been a lifelong Charlton fan, but I've never felt the need to wear a replica shirt. Hey ho. To each his (or her) own I suppose.
There were a lot of full kit wa**era in Ibiza - most bizarre! , I would expect it on the party side of the island
I think I saw somewhere that the third strip is in the colours of the Jamaican flag. Or I may have been dreaming...?
I think that may have come from CL and the person responsible had been posting numerous examples from his ideas.
please log in to view this image please log in to view this image I was in Peru recently and came across this football team, I bought the tops and will be passing on to a few of our members when back next March.
