![]() ![]() Sadly they far away from winning their seventh league title, as they are currently spending their second season in League One (only their third ever season in the third-tier of English football). Plus, Sunderland are still the last English champions to have won the title playing in red and white stripes, winning their sixth and last tier one title (so far) way back in the 1935-36 season. The Black Cats have won all of their six league titles playing in their famous red and white stripes. This was apparently a result of local side, South Bank FC, lending them a set of strips when the club were financially struggling during Sunderland’s fledgling years. Originally starting out in an all-blue kit, and then switching to a red and white half-and-half shirt, they adopted the stripes in 1887. The most successful team in England, who currently wear the red & white stripes are Sunderland, who have played in that famous strip since the 1887-88 season. The first part of the series, sees me start my investigation across the border, into England and the Football League.Ĭurrently in within the top five tiers of English football, there are only EIGHT teams whose home shirts are currently red and white vertical striped shirts: Therefore this is the start of a new series, which sees me investigate which other clubs within the world of football wear the red and white vertical stripes, and how (if known) they came about to choosing that particular design. However the question still lingered in my brain, and got me wondering if it a common shirt design for other clubs in other countries, or whether it is fairly unique within football. ![]() Seeing Holywell Town in their red & white striped shirts got me thinking… “How many other teams in the world of football play in red and white striped shirts, and are there any particular links between them all?”Īs far as I am aware, I don’t think any other team inspired the Wellmen to adopt their historic red and white stripes, so the origin of the colours is unknown. It was during a home game, where the new strip had been unveiled for this coming season, that it got me wondering on a question. For this season, and throughout Holywell’s history (that I am aware of) Holywell have always played in red and white vertical striped shirts. As you might have calculated from reading my many groundhopping blogs on this blogsite, I am a Holywell Town fan. ![]()
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