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1989 Yellow Kit

Postby Mase » Sat Jun 20, 2020 4:58 pm

Anyone know the story behind this kit?

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Looks like it was only worn once and never released to the fans.
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Re: 1989 Yellow Kit

Postby BlueinBosnia » Sat Jun 20, 2020 5:24 pm

There's a Facebook group called "Manchester City Match Worn Shirts" where the collector who runs it just managed to get hold of one of these a few weeks ago. They were worn due to a kit (shorts) clash, and ended up being given to a local Sunday League team called MMS, who used them for a few years before breaking up, with the players keeping their shirts when that happened.

According to the story on that page, it was always intended that we'd wear that kit that season, but for the New Year's Day fixture against Sheffield Wednesday. I don't know why we'd wear a one-off kit for New Year, or if it was just due to a potential kit clash (which, if so, must have been solved another way, because as you said it was only worn once).
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Re: 1989 Yellow Kit

Postby Mase » Sat Jun 20, 2020 5:36 pm

BlueinBosnia wrote:There's a Facebook group called "Manchester City Match Worn Shirts" where the collector who runs it just managed to get hold of one of these a few weeks ago. They were worn due to a kit (shorts) clash, and ended up being given to a local Sunday League team called MMS, who used them for a few years before breaking up, with the players keeping their shirts when that happened.

According to the story on that page, it was always intended that we'd wear that kit that season, but for the New Year's Day fixture against Sheffield Wednesday. I don't know why we'd wear a one-off kit for New Year, or if it was just due to a potential kit clash (which, if so, must have been solved another way, because as you said it was only worn once).


Brilliant thanks.
Any idea if it was our first yellow kit?

I remember we had a yellow Kappa one which I like, but again we didn’t seem to wear it that much

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Re: 1989 Yellow Kit

Postby BlueinBosnia » Sat Jun 20, 2020 5:57 pm

No, we had another one in the early 1960s, and possibly one before that.

Gary James posted about it elsewhere, and there's this clip online of us at WHL in 1961 in yellow (with red or maroon trim), at 05:30: https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/wat ... 961-online
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Re: 1989 Yellow Kit

Postby Mase » Sat Jun 20, 2020 6:03 pm

BlueinBosnia wrote:No, we had another one in the early 1960s, and possibly one before that.

Gary James posted about it elsewhere, and there's this clip online of us at WHL in 1961 in yellow (with red or maroon trim), at 05:30: https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/wat ... 961-online


Thanking you!

Mad how it looked like most of the fans were in suits on that video. I couldn’t imagine that these days.
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Re: 1989 Yellow Kit

Postby BlueinBosnia » Sat Jun 20, 2020 7:15 pm

Mase wrote:Mad how it looked like most of the fans were in suits on that video. I couldn’t imagine that these days.

Could you imagine how they'd react if you told them that, in 50 years' time, you'd get an umpteen match ban for having a sneaky cigarette behind the stands at half time?
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Re: 1989 Yellow Kit

Postby Mase » Sat Jun 20, 2020 7:28 pm

BlueinBosnia wrote:
Mase wrote:Mad how it looked like most of the fans were in suits on that video. I couldn’t imagine that these days.

Could you imagine how they'd react if you told them that, in 50 years' time, you'd get an umpteen match ban for having a sneaky cigarette behind the stands at half time?


Get a match ban for standing up now!!
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Re: 1989 Yellow Kit

Postby salford city » Sat Jun 20, 2020 7:44 pm

Was at the game at highbury when we wore this. Don't recall anything in the build up as to why we ended up wearing it. Can only think it was white shorts? We got smashed 3 or 4 from memory
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Re: 1989 Yellow Kit

Postby RodneyRodney » Sun Jun 21, 2020 1:08 am

salford city wrote:Was at the game at highbury when we wore this. Don't recall anything in the build up as to why we ended up wearing it. Can only think it was white shorts? We got smashed 3 or 4 from memory

4-0 to the gunners . I remember, I was there. (. . .and yes, we were crap)
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Re: 1989 Yellow Kit

Postby Tokyo Blue » Sun Jun 21, 2020 12:52 pm

RodneyRodney wrote:
salford city wrote:Was at the game at highbury when we wore this. Don't recall anything in the build up as to why we ended up wearing it. Can only think it was white shorts? We got smashed 3 or 4 from memory

4-0 to the gunners . I remember, I was there. (. . .and yes, we were crap)

So was I and you are spot on. However the match a few weeks later at Derby was even worse.
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Re: 1989 Yellow Kit

Postby RodneyRodney » Sun Jun 21, 2020 6:16 pm

Tokyo Blue wrote:
RodneyRodney wrote:
salford city wrote:Was at the game at highbury when we wore this. Don't recall anything in the build up as to why we ended up wearing it. Can only think it was white shorts? We got smashed 3 or 4 from memory

4-0 to the gunners . I remember, I was there. (. . .and yes, we were crap)

So was I and you are spot on. However the match a few weeks later at Derby was even worse.

i was there , too. Got "rammed" 6-0 , Mark Wright hat-trick.
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Re: 1989 Yellow Kit

Postby patrickblue » Mon Jun 22, 2020 3:31 pm

RodneyRodney wrote:
salford city wrote:Was at the game at highbury when we wore this. Don't recall anything in the build up as to why we ended up wearing it. Can only think it was white shorts? We got smashed 3 or 4 from memory

4-0 to the gunners . I remember, I was there. (. . .and yes, we were crap)


I was there too.
I remember we actually looked quite good for the first five minutes, then total garbage for the other 85. The only other thing I remember was Clive Allen playing.
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Re: 1989 Yellow Kit

Postby Hutch's Shoulder » Mon Jun 22, 2020 3:53 pm

patrickblue wrote:
RodneyRodney wrote:
salford city wrote:Was at the game at highbury when we wore this. Don't recall anything in the build up as to why we ended up wearing it. Can only think it was white shorts? We got smashed 3 or 4 from memory

4-0 to the gunners . I remember, I was there. (. . .and yes, we were crap)


I was there too.
I remember we actually looked quite good for the first five minutes, then total garbage for the other 85. The only other thing I remember was Clive Allen playing.


Cooper, Fleming, Hinchcliffe, Bishop, Gayle, Redmond, White, Morley (star man according to a later programme), Oldfield, Brightwell, Lake with Allen (54 mins) and McNab (unused) as subs.

A bit of a come-down that game, having been on a run of three wins: 5-1 (Rags!), 3-1 (Luton), 4-1 (Brentford in the League Cup).
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Re: 1989 Yellow Kit

Postby patrickblue » Mon Jun 22, 2020 4:07 pm

Hutch's Shoulder wrote:
patrickblue wrote:
RodneyRodney wrote:
salford city wrote:Was at the game at highbury when we wore this. Don't recall anything in the build up as to why we ended up wearing it. Can only think it was white shorts? We got smashed 3 or 4 from memory

4-0 to the gunners . I remember, I was there. (. . .and yes, we were crap)


I was there too.
I remember we actually looked quite good for the first five minutes, then total garbage for the other 85. The only other thing I remember was Clive Allen playing.


Cooper, Fleming, Hinchcliffe, Bishop, Gayle, Redmond, White, Morley (star man according to a later programme), Oldfield, Brightwell, Lake with Allen (54 mins) and McNab (unused) as subs.

A bit of a come-down that game, having been on a run of three wins: 5-1 (Rags!), 3-1 (Luton), 4-1 (Brentford in the League Cup).


Looked it up a while ago, it says Allen came on on 46 for Gary Fleming.
Thing is if I hadn't looked it up, I'd have put my mortgage on Allen starting.
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Re: 1989 Yellow Kit

Postby RodneyRodney » Mon Jun 22, 2020 9:52 pm

Hutch's Shoulder wrote:
patrickblue wrote:
RodneyRodney wrote:
salford city wrote:Was at the game at highbury when we wore this. Don't recall anything in the build up as to why we ended up wearing it. Can only think it was white shorts? We got smashed 3 or 4 from memory

4-0 to the gunners . I remember, I was there. (. . .and yes, we were crap)


I was there too.
I remember we actually looked quite good for the first five minutes, then total garbage for the other 85. The only other thing I remember was Clive Allen playing.


Cooper, Fleming, Hinchcliffe, Bishop, Gayle, Redmond, White, Morley (star man according to a later programme), Oldfield, Brightwell, Lake with Allen (54 mins) and McNab (unused) as subs.

A bit of a come-down that game, having been on a run of three wins: 5-1 (Rags!), 3-1 (Luton), 4-1 (Brentford in the League Cup).

I remember Paul Davis getting two of their goals.
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