Why Can City wear White shorts

[JB1811]

Strange how it didn't seem to effect the City players.

[Woofles The Wonder Dog]

Because they were never under pressure to pass the ball quickly, where as we were. Two or three times a pass was made that was clearly intended for a colleague but went straight to a City player in disguise.

[DeKuip]

I'm not colour-blind but found yesterday confusing, as did others sitting by me. It does make me think though about all those people who are colour-blind and how football and sport in general ignores them.

Only recently we had a discussion about this in a pub after a few of us fell about laughing when a guy told us how that afternoon he'd been running the line at his son's junior league game, and had to jack it in after five minutes because he couldn't tell who was who. He said he normally runs the line without a problem but this one day a team in black and white stripes were playing a team in red and white stripes – at the toss he had no problem telling the captains apart as he normally doesn't have a problem with red against black, but once the game got going he just hadn't a clue when trying to pick out moving players, sometimes half the width of the pitch away. He then went on to say that it's something that affects 1 in 20 males so the odds are there was also a young lad on the pitch who hadn't got a clue at times (and probably too embarrassed to even say so). He said he used to have the same problem when he played rugby at school, with hooped shirts. He also mentioned a European Championships game some time back between Ireland and Holland where he just had to turn the tele off as it was a nightmare as the orange and green looked exactly the same.
He accepted that it's just tough luck that a colour-blind person can't go on to be an electrician or a pilot, but there's no excuse in sport, where it's easy to make allowances for colour-blind players or watchers by choice of kits etc.

It all reminds me of watching a test match on tele and my mom said "how do they know who's on who's side".. I said "the two with bats in their hands are England".  She replied "That's not very fair sides is it."

[London Villan]

It's happened before this season too... can't for the life of me think which game it was as I've tried to erase most of them from my memory...

[Zhong Yi]

well we did lose at home in 1989-90 to Man City and Villa on that occasion changed to claret shorts. think that was the start of it actually...

[JUAN PABLO]

I think AMC was happy with the shorts . it confused both teams so that we only lost 1-0.

[UK Redsox]

I never even noticed that the shorts were the same colour.

I guess that you lot spend more time looking at footballer's arses than I do

[E I Adio]

I never even noticed that the shorts were the same colour.

I guess that you lot spend more time looking at footballer's arses than I do

How could you miss Custardpants?

[Damo70]

Rich - can you edit the title and make it a bit more informative?

I agree btw. Clashed dreadfully.

On the subject of that, I have a gripe with people's unimaginative thread titles. When discussing a particular player, like Stephen Warnock for example, instead of just calling the thread ''Warnock'' (of which   similarly titled topics probably already exist), could it not be ''Warnocks Shocking Form'' or something just so we're sure what we're clicking on?

The internet forum auditors from PWC will have a f-ing field day with us.

Good point but bad example. Normally a bit more detail would be better but any thread titled Warnock at the moment doesn't need clarifying. As for Sunday, I just commented at the game on how the shirts were hard to tell apart. Whatever happpened to the old dark and light rule or custom.

[SoccerHQ]

Must admit I didn't have trouble distinguishing the two teams!

This is linked to the topic a bit but why do City always turn up here in their away kit and yet at Eastlands we usually play in Claret?

[Legion]

"For those that are watching in black and white, the blue ball is above the pink." Or similar.

[Top Cat]

I got confused until I decided to watch the socks.

Me too Pauline!

[joe_c]

It is puzzling that they changed the shirts because they were a tiny bit similar yet wore identical shorts.

I remember playing Liverpool about 10 years ago and they wore an away kit of black shirts with grey sleeves and I struggled to tell them apart. Yes, I'm colourblind too.

[Somniloquism]

Because they were never under pressure to pass the ball quickly, where as we were. Two or three times a pass was made that was clearly intended for a colleague but went straight to a City player in disguise.

Is Warnock Colour blind?

[The Laughing Policeman]

I was away for the weekend so didn't see the game. But two mates who were there bought this up last night, both said it was confusing.