stripes a couple of questions

Why is our strip not classed as white n black stripes

Why do more teams not play in black n white it is far better than red n white but more play in those colours (i think)

 

Alphabetically, b comes before w. That's the most likely reason.

 

Because the shirt is clearly black and it has white stripes on it.

Sorted.

 

Historically black n white stripes were favoured by clubs who had a sense of uniqueness about them, whereas red n white stripes were generally associated with clubs of a common as muck sort of feel about them.

 

I don't know, man. I just don't know any more.

 

Goes back deep into history and the English Civil War, tracing the black and white colours to a famous 17th-Century Cavalier, William Cavendish (1593-1676).
As Earl, and later, Duke of Newcastle, he had strong connections with Tyneside and Northumberland, which have remained in the region to this day.
The City still has a Cavendish Place, and large areas of the region were at one time owned by the family. Streets like Welbeck Road, Devonshire Place,
Portland Terrace and Bentinck Road have Cavendish connections, while the Earl also owned Ogle and Bothal castles in Northumberland.
The Cavendish heraldic crest of three white stags on a black background - the first black'n'white connection - was to be seen all over the North East.

When Civil war raged, Cavendish was of course very much a Royalist man. He raised a volunteer army on Tyneside, known as the Newcastle Whitecoats
and their black and white attire became very distinctive. Their white shirts, dark pants and hats, along with their black leather boots, belts and pouches looked the part.
They must indeed have looked like the very first Toon Army!
The Cavendish, and Whitecoats, colours of black and white continued in the region for many years and it is entirely probable that this is where Newcastle United's famous colours originated…

 

I have seen them play in the White shirts with the black stripes

 

There you go trevornufc, you know now. The voice of wisdom has spoken.

 

Seems feasible to me JH

 

Cheers mate cracking answer to a **** question.


My other one why do we not see proper baldy players with comb overs anymore like coates, stiles n charlton is it a sign of the effect made by cheap Tiawan made clipper sets?

 

Good question. The last proper comb over was probably Agnew.
I think that, at the frist sign of baldness players nowadays just shave the lot off.

 

Actually that is a not uncommon fallacy.

This view is only taken by a small number of people who inevitably are suffering from a deficiency of colour vision. Reference..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness

You might as well say that Sunderland play in white shirts with red stripes..................

It's clearly just not true.

 

So if I see something in Black and white it is really in white and black I would never have believed it

 

There's none so blind as those that wont see.

 

"In the valley of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”
― August Wilson, Gem of the Ocean

 

I think the basic reason is down to descriptive convention, in the vast majority of cases whether it be stripes, hoops or other forms the tendency is to place the colour of any description before white, hence red and white stipes, green and white hoops, blue and white hoops etc, as this is the tendency the black is described before the white.

 

Spot on.

 

I think its racist towards white stripes that black is put first...............................

It is a black shirt with white stripes though.

 

But then it's rac.................... oh I give up.

 

I cant remember seeing a professional player wearing glasses but Im sure i've seen a linesman or referee wearing them?

I knar you've seen a house fly