Taken by my dad and granddad as an 8th Birthday treat on the Saturday and again on the Monday (Birthday Sun 1st). 0-0 Sat and 2-2 Mon against Crewe. Jammed in at the front behind the goal on Bunkers Hill for both games and loved it.
this will keep the discussion going. please log in to view this image date of this is from 1906 to 1907 please log in to view this image
much later but suggests white tops may have been a regular alternative kit. (this p 402-3 of chris elton book but worse copy) please log in to view this image
this also interesting. from the hull daily mail a drawing of the liverpool team due to play city on 18.2.1905 and it includes alex raisbeck brother of city's andrew who had joined us from them in august 1904. alex played 8 times for scotland. liverpool won the game 6-2. please log in to view this image
My avatar shows the programmes from the 1st and last games at Boothferry Park which are in my collection.
Having gone to the first at BP, one of the biggest disappointments of my life was not making that last Darlington match. My wife is a Darlington fan and it would also have been great to see our respective teams. All planned and booked before illness stuck its oar in.
So someone just needs to count the number of fans in the crowd, frame by frame, and we might just get somewhere.
The article referred to earlier... http://hullcitykits.co.uk/debunking-the-myth-of-citys-white-190405-home-shirts/
At a guess, Notts County and PNE could alter kick off times to meet shift patterns at t' mill ? Or is it something like entering the FA Cup at a later stage then other clubs? Maybe something similar is the answer to the Blackburn question? Hull City and Grimsby Town used to have special Football League dispensation to play on a Christmas morning. This was something to do with the fishing industry.
From Wiki. Hull City and Grimsby Town were the only two professional teams which had official permission to play league football on Christmas Day because of the demands of the fish trade. That tradition has now disappeared following the dramatic reduction of their trawler fleets in recent years.
No. Notts County as founder members of the league and Preston as the first champions were given dispensation not to have to change kits if there was a clash. Until the 1920s home teams had to change if there was a clash then it was altered to away teams changing. (In the early days of European competitions the home team had to change if there was a clash.) The only time I noticed was once, back in the 1970s I think, when they showed highlights of Newcastle v Notts County from St James Park and Newcastle were playing in a change strip. Of course in these days of second and third kits and sponsorship they won't use this perk. The Blackburn one is that they are the only team with permission to have the club badge on the corner flags. This was because they won the Cup three times in a row and should have kept the trophy. However, the FA couldn't afford a new trophy so gave Blackburn this unique permission. Though recently Chelsea and Man .u have had corner flags with their badge on. Don't know if they were told to desist in these days of PL power. Always thought City and Grimsby had permission not to play on Christmad Day. Back in those days Christmas Day was a full fixture day and it was thought that itbcouldvaffect the turn around of vessels if so many people needed on the docks etc were at football if it coincided with when the boats came in. In the event we both played games on quite a few Christmas Day. The most tickets City ever sold for a league game was a Christmas Day one against Rotherham, 55,000 (there were over 70,000 postal applications) although the crowd was given as "only" 49,000 as there was a bus strike. Amazing crowd when you consider how few people had cars and would have had to walk or bike there. Made of sterner stuff than nowadays.
That is wrong. There used to be a full programme on a Christmas Day. City and Grimsby had permission NOT to play if there was a need for the fishing vessels to get unloaded or back to sea.
The "experts" on RH have often got this wrong. If you look,at the Chris Elton book with all of City's fixtures in you will,see that they played many away fixtures on Christmad Day as well as home ones. The number of fixtures played on Xmas declined in the 1950s. Largely due to public transport becoming unavailable as they started to have Xmas Day off. After 3 or 4 years without any Xmas Day fixtures the last one was played at Blackpool in 1965.
