"It was the arrival of manager Herbert Chapman, the 'Great Innovator', in 1925 that launched the Arsenal kit as we know it today. And, in around 1960, the Club moved away from the woven rugby shirt style to a new knitted cotton jersey. In the 1950s a second kit was developed to combat any clash of colours with opposing home teams wearing similar kits.
It also incorporated the Club badge, which was positioned on the left-hand side of the shirt. Either way, the 'look' inspired the manager to create a new strip combining a red shirt with white collar and sleeves. Depending on which source you believe, Chapman either noticed someone at the ground wearing a red sleeveless sweater over a white shirt or played golf with famous cartoonist of the day Tom Webster, who wore something similar. It was the arrival of manager Herbert Chapman, the 'Great Innovator', in 1925 that launched the Arsenal kit as we know it today. Today, Sparta Prague continue to play in the same dark red kit, not dissimilar to Arsenal's 2005/06 redcurrant.Īrsenal shirts from the 1932, 19 FA Cup Finals He returned home to Czechoslovakia after having watched Woolwich Arsenal and was so inspired by the kit that he demanded his team play in the same colours. One of the most famous examples is Sparta Prague whose president, Dr Petric, visited London in 1906.
Beardsley, Parr and Bates' generosity in providing shirts and inspiring the Club to play in red encouraged several other teams to follow Arsenal's lead. It was this dark red kit that the team wore during their first season at Highbury in 1913/14. The goalkeeper wore the same attire apart from the shirt, which was a hand knitted cream woollen polo neck jumper. The shirt was worn with white knee length shorts and heavy woollen socks with blue and white hoops.
This original kit comprised a dark red shirt with long sleeves, a collar and three buttons down the front. Working to a tight budget, the Club decided the most inexpensive way of acquiring a strip was to kit out the team in the same colour as the ex-Forest players. In 1886, before the Club became professional, a small group of Nottingham Forest players, Fred Beardsley, Bill Parr and Charlie Bates, joined Dial Square FC, (the Club's first name) and brought their old red kit along with them. The origins of Arsenal's kit tell a great and unusual story.
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