Kits 25/26

[Crown Hill]

https://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Aston_Villa/Aston_Villa.htm

Just imagine how angry people would have been in 1900-1911

very odd to go red for 11 years

I don’t think they did. Those years are also covered by the traditional kit so I imagine that was a change shirt. Not sure why included there

[cdbearsfan]

It tells you in the notes.

"There is a puzzling reference in the Birmingham Gazette of 30 September 1901 (researched by Lee Gauntlett) that states Villa were wearing red jerseys "to deflect the glare of the sun." The match was against Small Heath in the Birmingham Cup but John Lerwill has confirmed that Villa did indeed wear red tops in some League matches between 1901 and 1908 while Richard Essen has found press reports that confirm they were worn untill 1911. Indeed, William McGregor frequently referred to this in his fran moss aston villa 1914-15newspaper column and expressed concern that Villa might drop their iconic claret/blue tops. It transpires that these were lightweight alternatives to the usual heavy woollen jerseys that became unbearable in hot weather. In October 2021 photographs were found by Jon Farrelly that not only confirmed these alternative tops were worn in October 1901 but also that they had short sleeves."

[Crown Hill]

There you go!

[nigel]

Just do a simple kit and stop with the 'inspired by' guff. We were utter shit in 1969.

It's a weird one. Picking a year in which we finished 18th in the second division.

Nah, the 68/69 shirt had blue sleeves. So they've picked the kit we got relegated to the Third Division in.

It’s the Tommy Docherty monstrosity isn’t it? An era where tradition went out the window and loads of clubs like Leeds, Cov, Palace picked silly kits. Ours had claret shorts as welll and was v unpopular with the supporters.

We wore blue shirts, bud