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Re: Aston Villa Kit 26/27
« Reply #180 on: May 27, 2026, 12:27:08 PM »
Our colours are claret and blue, not claret, blue and white. The kit is claret and blue, it's actually correcting a historical anomoly with white shorts, and I'm starting to think all together it looks great.

Fuck what fans of other teams think, fuck any comparisons with other teams that wear our colours as they're only poor imitations.

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Re: Aston Villa Kit 26/27
« Reply #181 on: May 27, 2026, 12:29:20 PM »
Historically all football shorts were either white or black.

The colours in shorts only started in the 60s.

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Re: Aston Villa Kit 26/27
« Reply #182 on: May 27, 2026, 12:30:40 PM »
Historically all football shorts were either white or black.

The colours in shorts only started in the 60s.

And I'd imagine that was down to cost or supply rather than any sartorial reason.

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Re: Aston Villa Kit 26/27
« Reply #183 on: May 27, 2026, 12:30:51 PM »
Our colours are claret and blue, not claret, blue and white. The kit is claret and blue, it's actually correcting a historical anomoly with white shorts, and I'm starting to think all together it looks great.

Fuck what fans of other teams think, fuck any comparisons with other teams that wear our colours as they're only poor imitations.

Yeah, Barcelona couldn't even get the shade of red right.

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Re: Aston Villa Kit 26/27
« Reply #184 on: May 27, 2026, 12:33:51 PM »
Historically all football shorts were either white or black.

The colours in shorts only started in the 60s.

And I'd imagine that was down to cost or supply rather than any sartorial reason.

Yep probably - although colours may have been considered garish - and the sky blue socks is only a relatively recent tradition. Historically our socks were mainly black or occasionally claret.

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Re: Aston Villa Kit 26/27
« Reply #185 on: May 27, 2026, 12:34:36 PM »
Claret shirt, blue sleeves, white shorts*. You can have different coloured socks if you like but blue is clearly the best option.

Fair play to Cardiff fans for protesting when they changed the colours, even though their colours are boring as fuck. We have the best colours in football and regularly piss about with them, only to have supporters queueing up to say how brilliant the shit sandwich they've been served is.

*obvs fair enough if the women want to wear darker shorts.
« Last Edit: May 27, 2026, 12:37:51 PM by cdbearsfan »

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Re: Aston Villa Kit 26/27
« Reply #186 on: May 27, 2026, 12:35:58 PM »
Our colours are claret and blue, not claret, blue and white. The kit is claret and blue, it's actually correcting a historical anomoly with white shorts, and I'm starting to think all together it looks great.

Fuck what fans of other teams think, fuck any comparisons with other teams that wear our colours as they're only poor imitations.

Yeah, Barcelona couldn't even get the shade of red right.

An abomination of shades, see also Crystal Palace.

I will however give Palace some credit for changing their rip off kit and colours up a bit in attempt to forge their own identity.

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Re: Aston Villa Kit 26/27
« Reply #187 on: May 27, 2026, 12:49:39 PM »
Nothing would make me happier than if we won the quadruple in the claret-sleeved shirt playing three at the back.

and celebrating with Cold play songs !

Bono cover versions.

I bet would Chris would too

Offline nigel

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Re: Aston Villa Kit 26/27
« Reply #188 on: May 27, 2026, 01:39:32 PM »
Outside of this site I’ve not heard anyone else mention it. Why fans of any other club would be discussing it is beyond me

We have an ‘other teams kit’ thread, so it not beyond the realm of others discussing ours

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Re: Aston Villa Kit 26/27
« Reply #189 on: May 27, 2026, 01:42:36 PM »
Yeah, plenty of teams have taken a good, long look at our kit and tried to nick it for themselves over the years.

Bloody thieves.

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Re: Aston Villa Kit 26/27
« Reply #190 on: May 27, 2026, 01:49:58 PM »
At least we don't have to worry about that next season.

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Re: Aston Villa Kit 26/27
« Reply #191 on: May 27, 2026, 01:56:24 PM »
The kit Gods smiled on us last 2 seasons and played their part in us winning silverware. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if we went down at the end of next season.

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Re: Aston Villa Kit 26/27
« Reply #192 on: May 27, 2026, 02:01:12 PM »
The kit Gods smiled on us last 2 seasons and played their part in us winning silverware. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if we went down at the end of next season.

They'd have to win something pretty big...

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Re: Aston Villa Kit 26/27
« Reply #193 on: May 27, 2026, 02:09:34 PM »
Are the home shorts going to be white or blue? I genuinely can’t tell.

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Re: Aston Villa Kit 26/27
« Reply #194 on: May 27, 2026, 02:47:37 PM »
They are "glow blue", apparently.

Aston Villa unveil new home kit - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cwy2kng54e8o

 


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