Manchester United Kits 2018/2019

Does anyone know, if you buy a player version kit, should you order a size up? If I'm a large, shall I get an XL?
 
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Bubz27 said:
Does anyone know, if you buy a player version kit, should you order a size up? If I'm a large, shall I get an XL?
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I've heard that this seasons player issue kits are not as slim fitting as the previous seasons, so there might not be a reason to go a full size up. Safest bet is to try the shirt in different sizes before buying.
 
Prodigy24 said:
I've heard that this seasons player issue kits are not as slim fitting as the previous seasons, so there might not be a reason to go a full size up. Safest bet is to try the shirt in different sizes before buying.
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Thank you.
 
bonusroller said:
If you can afford it, order the different sizes via adidas and then return the ones you don't want for free.
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Someone is getting me it as a gift. I'll order my normal size and then return if needed. Thanks.
 
decorativeed said:
Not true, they'd been wearing blue for over two decades at that point - as first choice change kit for 12 years between 1945-57 then third kit after that all the way up to 1990. They wore blue as a change colour when they won the FA Cup under Busby in 1948 and way back in the early 1900s too. http://www.unitedkits.com/kits/seasons/1903.php
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Thank you for the fantastic link! Saw it years ago and haven’t seen it since. That’s some people who must love Man united!

I think my main points stand, but I’m thankful for the corrections. A blue shirt did appear as a change kit even before WWI, possibly inspired by the blue top on the first black socks, or possibly just what they had lying around at the retail shop. Any way it wasn’t any more established as a third kit than a host of other varieties. I think it’s safe to say it was lifted in status by the 48 Final, and even more by the 68 Final, making it come back and come back again until it now, undoubtedly is the shirt colour we have worn most often apart from red and probably white shirts. Black shirts follow fourth, but have been a regular feature since it was first allowed. Anyone saying it’s not a classical United shirt colour backed by heavy tradition, shouldn’t be allowed to speak on the subject.

I mixed up the 48 final, where they wore blue and changed from black to blue socks to adjust to Blackpools kit, with the 57 Final with the Babes, when we wore white shirts.
 
Why they haven't brought back a class of 92 white and blue away kit inspired design I do not know. 90% of fans would love it and it would sell millions of shirts. Also celebrates a huge part in our history.
 
ivaldo said:
Our colours are red, white and blue - that's our flag. Thats what we are associated with, and what our branding is focused on. l feel almost no connection to having a blue away kit, and I'm sure you won't find many fans who feel strongly towards it either.

We talk about the green and yellow kit, we talk about the grey kit and we all remember the gold kit. A bit of creativity makes a kit rememberable and desirable.
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I’m assuming you mean black, based on your previous posts. It’s very evident you don’t have any feelings for the blue change shirts. Your feelings have absolutely no bearing though on what are United’s traditional colours. There is no denying the status of blue shirts in that regard, having been used almost as far back as the red, before, between and after the world wars, in all of the decades since the thirties at least, and for triumphs such as the FA Cup in 1948 (Busby’s first trophy), the first European Cup in 1968 and the Europa League final in 2017. Edit: And now also the first game for the women’s team in 13 years, winning against Liverpool!
 
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MUFC OK said:
Yeah I got the home version of that shirt which I love. That design as one of our playing kits would be a huge hit with fans.
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Like they did last year, you mean? That was the design on the black away kit.

They also incorporated that pattern on the 2015/16 black third kit.
 
nokillingmoths said:
Nah it didn't sell out. Was available in the club shop all season.

I had that top in 92. Well my dad did but i inherited it pretty early on.
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Ah okay, I looked online once and it wasn't available. My bad.
 
Grande said:
Thank you for the fantastic link! Saw it years ago and haven’t seen it since. That’s some people who must love Man united!
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Created by someone on here I think.
 
MadMike said:
Very washed out for me. Like you washed a white shirt with a red jumper or something. Could be a couple of tones more towards the pink, whithout looking garish.
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Exactly my thinking. But I guess it does capture the feel of that old newspaper
 
On a side note: Do you know if there is any evidence at all that Newton Heath played in green and gold before 1893? It seems most places just refer to common belief. Is possible that it’s a myth, and that the red and white even was the first kit after they proceeded from the blue chord?
 
Grande said:
On a side note: Do you know if there is any evidence at all that Newton Heath played in green and gold before 1893? It seems most places just refer to common belief. Is possible that it’s a myth, and that the red and white even was the first kit after they proceeded from the blue chord?
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Oh god don’t start that again! I think there was a big debate a few pages back.
 
kr0nix said:
Its claret and blue, so ideally it'd be a lightish away kit as it's a better contrast.
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Navy doesn't really clash with the main claret colour. We will play in navy. The first proper clash for both red and navy is Palace but that isn't until the end of November.
 
decorativeed said:
You know that is my own website, right? I collaborated with a couple of other people on it, one of whom believes that they wore green and gold halves before wearing red and white, despite a complete lack of evidence for it. If you read all of it, you'll see the first contemporary mention of the club's colours said they were wearing red and white.

To me, this makes more sense as a choice of colours - to represent both the red rose of Lancashire and the white rose of Yorkshire - than green and gold, which had no meaning to the railway.
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Ah, forget about my previous post. Great web site, great work! Some may not be interested, but I find it fascinating. My incliation at this point is to believe what you seem to. As I understand, there is evidence of Sam Black wearing halved shirts as early as 1884. It would seem
likely that it was a red and white shirt already at that point. Given that cost was a factor and players often were responsible for their own clothing, it would surpise me if they completely changed their entire wardrobe very often, more likely then that when they first bought uniformed colored shirts, they would hold on to that for as long as possible, no? In which case, changing to green/gold in 1893/94, after joining the league and then splitting up with Lanc/York Rails and moving to a new stadium would seem more as a ‘starting anew’ than an ironical ‘going back’ to LYr references.

Of course, green and gold is now etched in United tradition anyway, due to that, then the misunderstandings later and recently the green/gold movement. History is a bitch!

Two ironies though: You could possibly see our first proper shirt as half a Man Utd and half a Leeds shirt stiched together ...

And the other is that our first uniform and core colour anyway, would seem to be a blue chord.
 
Grande said:
Ah, forget about my previous post. Great web site, great work! Some may not be interested, but I find it fascinating. My incliation at this point is to believe what you seem to. As I understand, there is evidence of Sam Black wearing halved shirts as early as 1884. It would seem
likely that it was a red and white shirt already at that point. Given that cost was a factor and players often were responsible for their own clothing, it would surpise me if they completely changed their entire wardrobe very often, more likely then that when they first bought uniformed colored shirts, they would hold on to that for as long as possible, no? In which case, changing to green/gold in 1893/94, after joining the league and then splitting up with Lanc/York Rails and moving to a new stadium would seem more as a ‘starting anew’ than an ironical ‘going back’ to LYr references.

Of course, green and gold is now etched in United tradition anyway, due to that, then the misunderstandings later and recently the green/gold movement. History is a bitch!

Two ironies though: You could possibly see our first proper shirt as half a Man Utd and half a Leeds shirt stiched together ...

And the other is that our first uniform and core colour anyway, would seem to be a blue chord.
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The white with blue 'cord' thing is a bit puzzling as nobody knows what exactly that means. Also, it could possibly be referring to the club's cricket kit rather than football.
 
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