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Offline dave.woodhall

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Re: Claret & blue: the history?
« Reply #75 on: June 28, 2012, 10:44:25 AM »
Well i grew up being told that when the founding fathers (originally the Wenslyan chapel????) of our club met in a handsworth public house the colours of the tiles in the gents was indeed claret and blue and that was where the colours came from?

Dont tell me i have lived a lie all my life?

As Wesleyans and therefore teetotal I doubt it.

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Re: Claret & blue: the history?
« Reply #76 on: June 28, 2012, 11:35:12 AM »
Absolutely no chance they'd be in the pub.

Offline nigel

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Re: Claret & blue: the history?
« Reply #77 on: June 28, 2012, 02:49:04 PM »
Well i grew up being told that when the founding fathers (originally the Wenslyan chapel????) of our club met in a handsworth public house the colours of the tiles in the gents was indeed claret and blue and that was where the colours came from?

Dont tell me i have lived a lie all my life?

As Wesleyans and therefore teetotal I doubt it.
Have to say that many years ago I heard a story along those lines too.
To be honest, though, I just thought it was a wind up.

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Re: Claret & blue: the history?
« Reply #78 on: June 28, 2012, 03:23:25 PM »

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Re: Claret & blue: the history?
« Reply #79 on: June 28, 2012, 03:33:29 PM »

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Re: Claret & blue: the history?
« Reply #80 on: June 28, 2012, 04:10:46 PM »

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Re: Claret & blue: the history?
« Reply #81 on: June 28, 2012, 04:16:33 PM »
Well i grew up being told that when the founding fathers (originally the Wenslyan chapel????) of our club met in a handsworth public house the colours of the tiles in the gents was indeed claret and blue and that was where the colours came from?

Dont tell me i have lived a lie all my life?

As Wesleyans and therefore teetotal I doubt it.

So teetotallers dont need to take a piss?  I know a few people who do not touch a drop yet still frequent bars / resturants etc

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Re: Claret & blue: the history?
« Reply #82 on: June 28, 2012, 04:28:09 PM »
Well i grew up being told that when the founding fathers (originally the Wenslyan chapel????) of our club met in a handsworth public house the colours of the tiles in the gents was indeed claret and blue and that was where the colours came from?

Dont tell me i have lived a lie all my life?

As Wesleyans and therefore teetotal I doubt it.

So teetotallers dont need to take a piss?  I know a few people who do not touch a drop yet still frequent bars / resturants etc

Not in 1876 they wouldn't.

Offline nigel

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Re: Claret & blue: the history?
« Reply #83 on: June 28, 2012, 06:06:37 PM »
I've browsed a few teams on Historical Kits and find it amazing how some teams just changed colours, Not even a gradual change either.
A couple of examples:
Partick Thistle wore Blue and White for some time, then just changed to Red and Yellow hoops.
Dundee Utd, were Black and White for years before just changing to Tangerine.
Leeds Utd, from Yellow and Blue to all White.
Blackpool wore Red tops, then changed to Red, Yellow and Black hoops then to White tops before going back to Red, only to change to Tangerine. Even then they had a mid change to Light and Dark Blue stripes.

Imagine that happening these days. One season we're Claret and Blue the next season Yellow and Green

Although there might be more, only Notts Forest seem to have remained on Red tops White Shorts (albeit a darker shade of Red early on) throughout.


Offline JJ-AV

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Re: Claret & blue: the history?
« Reply #84 on: June 30, 2012, 03:08:18 AM »
Tell that to Cardiff fans!

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Re: Claret & blue: the history?
« Reply #85 on: June 30, 2012, 09:09:14 AM »
I rather like our 1887 claret n blue quarters ....

Offline nigel

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Re: Claret & blue: the history?
« Reply #86 on: June 30, 2012, 10:05:37 AM »
Tell that to Cardiff fans!

Yes, I forgot about that.

 


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