Change Your Colours

In recent years Arsenal have taken to playing about with their change shirts. For those of us who grew up and cut our teeth on yellow shirts and blue shirts that is all we knew and we have found it difficult to see colours like blue and white being worn in various seasons.


Thanks to the internet our protests have been long, loud, liked and retweeted and all to no avail.

But spare a thought for Leeds United fans back in the late 1950s, early 1960s. Before Don Revie came along and made them play in all white they wore some kind of yellow and blue kit as this team picture shows from the Arsenal programme in 1957/58.

I wonder how many fans tore up their season tickets in disgust or wrote angry letters to the local paper? Or were there other things to worry about like children listening to Elvis Presley, rationing and national service?!

By the way, that tall, lanky thing standing on the left at the end of the row? Recognise him?