The Rugby Football Union says the World Cup hosts New Zealand are happy for England to wear an all-black 'away' kit during this autumn's tournament. The RFU said England will wear a black kit in the first of their World Cup matches against Argentina on 10 September. They will wear their traditional white strip in their remaining group matches but could revert to the black kit later in the tournament. Designers came up with the idea of a black kit to replace the grey, or anthracite, shirt 18 months ago and, mindful of New Zealand's historic association with the colour. "England are obliged by the Rugby World Cup participation agreement to have a change strip," a spokesman said. "We have worked with Nike on producing a shirt that complies with Rugby World Cup and International Rugby Board regulations and, fully aware of the significance of a black shirt to New Zealand's players and population as a whole" Aside from the Red Rose the kit will be all black but will have ancient Maori symbols and decorations Prime Minister John Key has called England a bunch of "wannabees" after plans were revealed about the kit which will be launched by Nike on August I dont know how the english feel about this but i cant belive the designers have the adasity and the ignorence to do this the black kit in new zealand is not going to go down well with the new zealand public making england fans and team less welcome also are england ashamed of there own tradition?
