Is this us v. Cardiff - 1925?

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Linz said:
http://www.ltmuseumshop.co.uk/poste...d/poster/to-the-cup-final-l-b-black-1925.html

The date seems to match up and the colours are nearly right... just annoyed they've put us in blue shorts :)

Looking for acceptable pictures for my living room wall.
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It is us.

On the subject of good pictures, can I suggest you try Rare and Racy on Division Street. I popped in there in August on a trip up to Sheffield and got a framed print of a United line up in 1891 (the first ever team photo - though obviously a reproduction) for £30. They had lots of other United related pics (a photo of 1890's stalwart Arthur Watson springs to mind) and you can probably get a bargain or two there.
 
super_pig said:
i think we had blue shorts for a bit??

edit: oh i see.. doesn't match the decor?? :D

ahh you are right linz.. if this is accurate
http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Sheffield_United/Sheffield_United.htm
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"For the 1967-68 season, the team wore white shorts for the first time"

not accurate. When Spurs visited us in Sept 1966, the only pair of shorts they brought were black so we had to wear white shorts despite that it was our home game. We won the match so for a while we carried on wearing white shorts for the home games. I have seen photos of us wearing white shorts in the home wins against West Brom and West Ham also in the home League cup matches. In December or January we switched back to black shorts. Then during the close season of 1967 we decided that our shorts would be white for the whole season. We had a poor run of results for home matches since February so for the last home match of the 1967-68 season against Chelsea we switched back to black shorts but the change didnt bring us luck
 
It seems to me a very wrong idea for us to wear blue shorts and socks but on the basis that this is way we started out and we were wearing them on the only occasion we were champions maybe we ought to give it a try.
 
Paulus said:
It seems to me a very wrong idea for us to wear blue shorts and socks but on the basis that this is way we started out and we were wearing them on the only occasion we were champions maybe we ought to give it a try.
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What proof is there that we did actually wear blue shorts and socks then? All the photos from that era are obviously black and white and only show that the shorts and socks were a dark colour. I have never read anything contemporary that said we were playing in blue.

I am genuonely (and sadly) interested in this.
 
Darren said:
What proof is there that we did actually wear blue shorts and socks then? All the photos from that era are obviously black and white and only show that the shorts and socks were a dark colour. I have never read anything contemporary that said we were playing in blue.

I am genuonely (and sadly) interested in this.
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Not sure it's the true colours Darren.
It has Cardiff in blue and as everyone knows they play in Red don't they? ;-)

Seriously though it would be interesting to find out wouldn't it?
 
Darren said:
What proof is there that we did actually wear blue shorts and socks then? All the photos from that era are obviously black and white and only show that the shorts and socks were a dark colour. I have never read anything contemporary that said we were playing in blue.

I am genuonely (and sadly) interested in this.
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What about cigarette cards? Is there anyone who has a collection of our players (between the war years) on Cigarette cards to see if any of them has shorts that are blue?
 
Silent Blade said:
What about cigarette cards? Is there anyone who has a collection of our players (between the war years) on Cigarette cards to see if any of them has shorts that are blue?
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I have a few somewhere, no idea if any of them cover that time... Looking for volunteers to come round and sort out the piles of Blades related stuff cluttering the house :D
 
the picture above is a billboard poster for the 1925 cup final advertising the new underground link
the kit was as follows
http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Sheffield_United/Sheffield_United.htm

we played in blue shorts up to 1904
when you think in the last period of wearing blue shorts 1893/4 to 1904 we won 2 fa cups reached 5 other semi finals , and the 1902 final ,reportedly the first ever 100k attendance ,won the league were runners up twice and won the only ever British championship beating Celtic over 2 legs , perhaps theres a case to try them again

http://www.ltmuseumshop.co.uk/exclu...e-To-the-Cup-Final-1925-Football-T-Shirt.html
 
Darren said:
What proof is there that we did actually wear blue shorts and socks then? All the photos from that era are obviously black and white and only show that the shorts and socks were a dark colour. I have never read anything contemporary that said we were playing in blue.

I am genuonely (and sadly) interested in this.
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You are absolutely right to point this out. I am only going on what I have seen portrayed on the historicalkits site and other places that seem to use the same images. I've had a quick look for the first 100 years book to see if it is discussed in there but I can't find it. Surely the club must have some evidence? Invoice for kit etc. in old records.
 
It is in one book that all early kits were ex army issue and came in white or blue, and in the report for the Victoria celebration British Championship it mentioned how uniteds kit was red white and "blue"

also in a very rare colour photo of the 1902 final , although colour photograhy was hardlt 12 megapixels , uniteds shorts do look blue
 



blade too long said:
It is in one book that all early kits were ex army issue and came in white or blue, and in the report for the Victoria celebration British Championship it mentioned how uniteds kit was red white and "blue"

also in a very rare colour photo of the 1902 final , although colour photograhy was hardlt 12 megapixels , uniteds shorts do look blue
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Do you have a link to that colour photo?
 
Artistic License (I think that is the spelling). Picture the scene at London Underground HQ, "Bob, (commercial artist) could you do us a poster for the cup final please ?", "of course, who's playing?". "Sheffield United and Cardiff," "OK, what kit do they wear?" "red and white stripes I think" "OK!".
Job done, unsurprisingly everyone involved was from London and had never travelled further north than Watford and of course being an artist, he had never even watched a football match, let alone the mighty Cutlers!
The ref's wearing blue shorts too.
btw. my drawing of a gate at Welbeck Abbey is still hanging at Rare and Racy, if you buy it and contact me, I'll throw in three of Chatsworth! (unframed) apologia for the blatant commercialisation of the thread.
 
Oh and esoterically speaking, the blade who is kneeling has one black sock and one white one. Damned temperaMENTAL artists spoiling it for pedants in 90 years time!!!!!!! (winking smiley face thing).

(some figures from Picasso's rose period only have one leg and his paintings can sell for over £100! its an outrage)
 
740.jpg asking a bob for the programme ,jesus they were dear then

funny how it was a shilling in 1924 and only 6 pence in 25, strange
 
Yorkshire team in the final in 1925, they had to drop the price.......

Mind you on the 'penny plain, tuppence coloured' rule the maths works out quite well. If it had been black and white in 1924, they'd have* got the Newcastle kit right too.

*old English for 'they'd of '
 
just cos the programme has blue shorts, doesnt mean they were blue. if the big rocky poster in the movie can have the wrong colour shorts, i trust nuttin!

besides, wasnt everything in the world in black and white in those days? until dorothy reached the land of oz.
 



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