perfect for the wimuns team. Like the style but the colours all wrong. Mabey a darker shade of sky blue would have been acceptable(coventry/man city) but thats the kinda blue youd associate with a new born baby boy!
Its been ages since weve had a decent away strip - how hard can it be!!!?
Anonymous wrote: The Saltire should be sky-blue ...........so the new away top is in Scotlands National colour !
No the Saltire should not be SKY BLUE!! The Saltire should be BLUE. The proper shade was never proclaimed to be of any shade (light or dark). That is why when you look at the Saltires flying from castle/public building etc.... there will always be a different shade, depending on the manufacture of cloth. They are all OK......apart from the blue in that away top. That's just pure ****e!!!
Get yourself down to the centre. cany mind what shop it is(mabey officers club or round about there) but they have stocked all the retro Scotland tops including the very stylish spain 82 top which i will be purchasing for the weekend. they are made by score draw not toffs and are official. £30. Argentina 70's one is there with the tiny holes through it and the classic 60's roundneck.
P.S a dark skyblue like cov/man city is still diffrent to a navy/dark blue, besides what other country plays in dark blue? there probably is one but i cany think of one off the top of my head except argintina/spain/us but thats their away tops. any smart arse out there to prove me wrong?
?......you're correct there was no OFFICIAL blue for the Saltire until a very recent petition to Holyrood which resulted in the adoption of a certain shade...............historically in 1385 the Scots Parliament decreed inter alia that "every man French and Scots shall have a sign before and behind , namely a white St. Andrews Cross,and if his jack is white he shall bear the same white cross in a piece of BLACK cloth round or square"...........this is the first written mention of the Saltire , so it could be argued that it should be a white cross on a black ground !..........Sir Walter Scott wrote that it should be a white cross on a silver ground !.........but the legend of it appearing in the sky at Athelstaneford in the eighth century (year of 736)points to it appearing in SKY BLUE !
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Scotlands National colour !
