Red shirts win more matches!

[Hannah]

According to some studies...

 

 

[Special K]

Do they not have anything better to do with their time. I mean that is just purely coincidence is it not.

[Derryman]

The business about red being a highly-visible colour has been long accepted. It does appear to be easier to pick out a team-mate in a red shirt than in, say, a grey or white one (England players have said this; I think it's in Bobby Charlton's recent autobiography).

 

The high-visibility aspect was one of the main factors in the British Army abandoning their Redcoats uniform.

[Hannah]

It's not working for Droylsden though is it..

[Jeff]

Or us last night.

I read about this on the train this morning and did think it was a bit of 'too much time and not enough news'

 

Apparently, yellow is the worst colour. You know where you can stick that.

 

Is the Bobby Charlton book any good Derryman? Got it for xmas but have not picked it up in anger yet.

[David Holden]

Originally Posted By: Hannah

It's not working for Droylsden though is it..

Not much help to Wrexham either.

[Derryman]

It worked for my hometown team, Derry City. When they came into senior footy in the late 1920s they wore Wolves-style Old Gold jerseys. Then they got an ex-Sheffield Utd player as manager (Sheff Utd were quite famous and 'successful' at the time) and he changed the team colours to red and white stripes with black shorts. There was an immediate change of fortune on the pitch.

 

Of course, I'm not superstitious. We Leos aren't ... oops !

[Hirsty]

Originally Posted By: Derryman

It worked for my hometown team, Derry City. When they came into senior footy in the late 1920s they wore Wolves-style Old Gold jerseys. Then they got an ex-Sheffield Utd player as manager (Sheff Utd were quite famous and 'successful' at the time) and he changed the team colours to red and white stripes with black shorts. There was an immediate change of fortune on the pitch.

Of course, I'm not superstitious. We Leos aren't ... oops !

Sheff Utd ? Successful ? When was that then ?

Cheers,

[Derryman]

1925 FA Cup Final for instance ? It's why I put the word 'successful' in inverted commas. These things are relative - especially when you live on the north-west coast of Ireland with Atlantic gales whistling around your penalty box (Oooh, Matron!).

 

http://www.sufc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/Legends/0,,10418,00.html

 

[Hirsty]

Sorry, I didn't realise that they had such recent success !!

 

Cheers,

[eufckev]

Watched this on BBC Breakfast this morning.

Did we not win the Ryman League with yellow away shirts?

[Hirsty]

Played in red at Bedford.........

[eufckev]

Damn! Never knew the Fleet existed then.

[Cardomon]

Does this rule only apply for club games ?

 

I dont think Brazil have much of a problem with yellow. In fact with one obvious exception its hard to think of a decent international team that ever won in red.

[Derryman]

Except perhaps here :

 

http://www.peter-upton.co.uk/sub12.htm

[Hempstead Gaz]

Originally Posted By: Hirsty

Played in red at Bedford.........

I was there too, Hirsty. Greatest day EVER (so far). "he's got no hair but we don't care" chanted 1000 delirious Fleet fans that day.