Speaking of which... Chicago Fire Soccer Club: http://www.chicago-fire.com/ The Great Chicago Fire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chicago_Fire Was that supposed to be some sort of a morbid tribute?
Yeah, though at least that one is more than a century in the past, and accidental. Here we name music festivals after the time that we accidentally blew up half the city, so I guess I shouldn't really be allowed an opinion on the matter of naming propriety.
On a simmilar note, am I the only one who is sort of thinking, 'I hope we don't go back to wearing stripes'? All red has been working out for us.
Still want a throwback to the early 80s style. And then we should stick with it forever. As good as this season has been, the Adidas template strip has been, and always will be, a steaming pile of unoriginal, mass-produced ****.
On the basis that two people thinking the same thing means you're not alone, then you're not alone. I have never been an advocate of stripes. All I want is for the club to have a consistent and true identity, which it most certainly has. Also, the focus of the club is the clearest I have ever known. For me, if ever a football club has its best days in front of it, it's this one.
The hooped socks still make me want to heave, but the kit is definitely growing on me. Those white hankies on each sleeve don't flap around anything like they did on Stoke's Away kit, last season, so my dinners are having a reasonably good chance of staying down.
I'm glad I'm not alone. However, I'd really like to know if there's anyone out there who like me, was very much pro stripes and anti all red, but due to our standing, now finds they can infact live with an alternative to stripes.
This season's kit is a mess, made tolerable by the fact we keep winning in it. So yeah, I'm warming to it slowly. Personally I'd still rather see Adam Lallana doing his Johan Cruyff impersonation in red n white stripes, but every time I replay highlights of Saturday's game in my head, he's wearing all red. And that particular tone of red does sort of sear it's way into your consciousness. If it's a Cortese plot, it's working.
Hopefully NC will have some sense and at least rotate the pattern on the shirt next season to red and white stripes or the red sash.
I hate all this name changing stuff. Rugby and Cricket have both done it and some of them bear no relation to anything other than trying to sound macho. Take the crap sounding Wakefield Wildcats rugby league team. They used to be called, rather gloriously in my opinion, Wakefield Trinity. Why mess with that? And, the the way, why aren't Hampshire called the "Hogs"? Having said that, TheSecondStain's suggestion of Southampton St Marys has a nice ring to it. As for the shirts, as long as we don't go blue I'm not overly bothered. All red is fine. The problem this year, as others have said, is just the woeful design. I do like yellow and blue for the away strip though. I suspect most people of my vintage do (i.e. pre-1976).
I suppose it comes from the American pronunciation of Birmingham as almost two separate words: Birming HAM.
Because we've become a feeder club to the Rajahstan Royals or some rubbish like that. Previously we were the Hampshire Hawks which is okay and alliterative. Heh, didn't think of that. Very good. As for incorporating a nickname or something into the name, it depends how cliché and original the nickname is. Tonbridge Angels sounds cool, Hull Tigers does not. Likewise Gainsborough Trinity sounds good. And Southampton St Mary's would also be quite cool.
