Colour Blind Kit updates

[sportinguista in Warsaw]

Rules are changing to help those who suffer with colour differentiation issue...

EFL: Clubs to 'mix and match' kits to aid colour blindness

Home teams can now play in their away kits where there is a colour clash to help people who are colour blind, the English Football League says.

www.bbc.com

 

[SwissBlade]

Rules are changing to help those who suffer with colour differentiation issue...

EFL: Clubs to 'mix and match' kits to aid colour blindness

Home teams can now play in their away kits where there is a colour clash to help people who are colour blind, the English Football League says.

www.bbc.com

It’s a big start!

 

[Bladeloyal]

It’s a big start!

What about the migraine sufferers

 

[Wards]

Great news

 

[Bert]

Bert can't think of a single occasion when we've played at home in anything but our home kit.

The away team needs to accommodate the colour blind, not the home team.

 

[jt64]

Welcome news, but you would think irrelevant to us

 

[brownblade]

Rules are changing to help those who suffer with colour differentiation issue...

EFL: Clubs to 'mix and match' kits to aid colour blindness

Home teams can now play in their away kits where there is a colour clash to help people who are colour blind, the English Football League says.

www.bbc.com

Not colour blind but excellent news for the many people that are. An insane oversight until recently.

 

[bladesmanluke]

I would be annoyed if United played in their away kit at Bramall Lane. This should be an issue for away teams to address, not home teams.

 

[originaltrueblade]

When I go to Lane I expect red and white stripes and not pyjamas

 

[Hockey'sBeard]

But that bloody awful green kit we had ….green kits should be banned regardless- see article also mentions that

 

[Wards]

Most teams have second and third kits these days. To make things ridiculously simple, one should be light and the other dark. Use whichever is opposite end of the spectrum to the home teams kit. Done.

 

[RWE]

I’m not colour blind so forgive me if I’m wrong but I can’t imagine it being a problem with our striped home kit?

 

[jt64]

Most teams have second and third kits these days. To make things ridiculously simple, one should be light and the other dark. Use whichever is opposite end of the spectrum to the home teams kit. Done.

They use that rule in internationals, and you had the farce in the opening game of one of the recent World Cups where both Spain and Netherlands were wearing their alternate kits

 

[shorehamview]

It could be sorted easily if we went along the lines of American football and other sports in the former colonies. Each team has a coloured kit and a white one. The home team gets to pick what colour they wear, the visitors have to wear the opposite.

If the FA made a rule governing kit colours it would save all this third kit nonsense, which is primarily to rinse fans of more money. And prohibit visiting teams wearing their change kit when their normal kit doesn’t clash with the home team, like Chelsea away at Man United or Tottenham, for example.

 

[Swannyblade]

I would be annoyed if United played in their away kit at Bramall Lane. This should be an issue for away teams to address, not home teams.

Correct and if they can’t address it, we go old school and make them wear our away kit

 

[Ainsley Harriott]

I’m not colour blind so forgive me if I’m wrong but I can’t imagine it being a problem with our striped home kit?

I'm not colour blind but so I can't imagine what those people struggle with, but surely running left to right or right to left is enough?

 

[Wards]

I’m not colour blind so forgive me if I’m wrong but I can’t imagine it being a problem with our striped home kit?

Not true, sadly. Especially with the solid backs they have on most modern kits - it's still a nightmare.

In a ruck of players from a corner or free kick it's still extremely difficult to identify, at speed, between say a team wearing red and white and a team wearing green. For me at least anyway.

Absolutely awful when we've played the Pigs and both teams have worn their traditional stripes.

 

[Wards]

I'm not colour blind but so I can't imagine what those people struggle with, but surely running left to right or right to left is enough?

Without wanting to sound dismissive, football isn't rugby. Your argument stands up to a degree there.

 

[3Cheers4Ramirez]

Let's just go full Serie A tinpot mode and have a new kit every game

Fuck number 8 and number 10 as well, I want number 77 and 92

 

[RWE]

Not true, sadly. Especially with the solid backs they have on most modern kits - it's still a nightmare.

In a ruck of players from a corner or free kick it's still extremely difficult to identify, at speed, between say a team wearing red and white and a team wearing green. For me at least anyway.

Absolutely awful when we've played the Pigs and both teams have worn their traditional stripes.

That makes total sense, completely forgot about the other teams that also play in different coloured stripes too Cheers for the explanation

 

[JohnDenver]

I'm not colour blind but so I can't imagine what those people struggle with, but surely running left to right or right to left is enough?

When JLT or Carter-Vickers run back and wipe out their teammates then folk might wonder why you’re the only one applauding.

 

[HVR]

It could be sorted easily if we went along the lines of American football and other sports in the former colonies. Each team has a coloured kit and a white one. The home team gets to pick what colour they wear, the visitors have to wear the opposite.

If the FA made a rule governing kit colours it would save all this third kit nonsense, which is primarily to rinse fans of more money. And prohibit visiting teams wearing their change kit when their normal kit doesn’t clash with the home team, like Chelsea away at Man United or Tottenham, for example.

Once you learn about the NFL and one team playing in white - it makes so much sense and is easy to implement. Another quirk is that Rugby Union teams - the home team play the 'away' kit if there's a colour clash. I'm sure it's down to tradition - in the olde days the home team would be able to use the alternate colours from their dressing rooms, whereas the away team might arrive with only one kit.

 

[BerksBlade]

Once you learn about the NFL and one team playing in white - it makes so much sense and is easy to implement. Another quirk is that Rugby Union teams - the home team play the 'away' kit if there's a colour clash. I'm sure it's down to tradition - in the olde days the home team would be able to use the alternate colours from their dressing rooms, whereas the away team might arrive with only one kit.

But in the NFL you don't have teams with a 100-year history of playing in stripes or hoops (which could clash with both colour and white).
Our 20/21 shirt was predominantly white on the back, so a team that normally plays in red couldn't realistically use either red or white.

 

[Flumps]

Maybe we should take a leaf out of the book of road signs.

Instead of colours we just have words that are immediately recognisable. So, for example we just have multiple lines that say 'Red White Red White Red White" but printer vertically ofcourse and in good proportion.

There you go, problem solved.

 

[John Cutsbushes]

I would have thought colour blind people could tell which team was ours, by the fact its Norwood and Fleck etc running about

 

[Snowflake]

Not true, sadly. Especially with the solid backs they have on most modern kits - it's still a nightmare.

In a ruck of players from a corner or free kick it's still extremely difficult to identify, at speed, between say a team wearing red and white and a team wearing green. For me at least anyway.

Absolutely awful when we've played the Pigs and both teams have worn their traditional stripes.

I too am fortunate not to be colour blind, so struggle to understand what colours and shades cause the problem. Was last night’s match between England in all white and Italy in all mid blue a real problem, as I suspect it would be ?
I am also at a loss to understand why the home club has to change. It was voted through by the EFL members so there must be some logic that evades me completely! Does anyone know the genuine reason ?

 

[bladesmanluke]

I miss steel city derbies with both teams in home kits

 

[Wards]

I too am fortunate not to be colour blind, so struggle to understand what colours and shades cause the problem. Was last night’s match between England in all white and Italy in all mid blue a real problem, as I suspect it would be ?
I am also at a loss to understand why the home club has to change. It was voted through by the EFL members so there must be some logic that evades me completely! Does anyone know the genuine reason ?

Lat night was essentially light v dark so perfect for me.

 

[The Crab]

I'm not colour blind but so I can't imagine what those people struggle with, but surely running left to right or right to left is enough?

I'm partially colour blind but it's never been an issue for me at footy

 

[e17blade]

I’m not colour blind so forgive me if I’m wrong but I can’t imagine it being a problem with our striped home kit?

It DEFINITELY is!! Often!!