hasper57saint Posted 13 June, 2015 Share Posted 13 June, 2015 Was talking to a Stokie STH a couple of days ago and he said Saints got our stripes from borrowing a Stoke kit many many years ago.Apparently when we were St.Marys we were playing a friendly against some team and didn't have a strip so Stoke loaned us theirs for the match and in appreciation of that gesture we adopted the stripes.This is the first time I've ever heard this so if one of our 'historians' can help shed some light on this I'd appreciate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Le God Posted 13 June, 2015 Share Posted 13 June, 2015 Its nonsense, Saints were formed in 1885 and we didn't start wearing red and white stripes until 1896. In 1896 Stoke were wearing this red and blue striped kit... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hasper57saint Posted 13 June, 2015 Author Share Posted 13 June, 2015 Thanks MLG. I had my doubts when he was telling me but in all honesty stranger things have happened ie our Red Sash shirt.Didn't we have one in the 19th Century as we were forming? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Window Cleaner Posted 13 June, 2015 Share Posted 13 June, 2015 Its nonsense, Saints were formed in 1885 and we didn't start wearing red and white stripes until 1896. In 1896 Stoke were wearing this red and blue striped kit... Absolutely, Stoke seem to have adopted Red and White stripes for the 1907 season whereas we were playing in Red and White stripes for the 1902 cup final. In the first match we were red and white with blue shorts and Sheff U were in White shirts. For the replay the kits were seemingly just the other way round. Perhaps it was we who loaned Stoke the red and white. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Le God Posted 13 June, 2015 Share Posted 13 June, 2015 (edited) Absolutely, Stoke seem to have adopted Red and White stripes for the 1907 season whereas we were playing in Red and White stripes for the 1902 cup final. In the first match we were red and white with blue shorts and Sheff U were in White shirts. For the replay the kits were seemingly just the other way round. Perhaps it was we who loaned Stoke the red and white. Stoke first had red and white stripes in 1883, but in their first 45 years of existence they went through many different colours and designs before settling with red/white stripes in 1908 (but not entirely until 1915). http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Stoke_City/Stoke_City.htm Edited 13 June, 2015 by Matthew Le God Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB Fry Posted 13 June, 2015 Share Posted 13 June, 2015 My favourite kit story for Saints is the fact that we settled on yellow and blue as our traditional away kit following conversations between the Corbetts (I think its was them) and a local priest they knew. The priest mentioned his prayer mat was yellow and blue, and his prayer diary was yellow and blue. So struck by this, the club official and the clergyman prayed together. The decision to move to to what is now our traditional yellow and blue was made the next day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 13 June, 2015 Share Posted 13 June, 2015 Was talking to a Stokie STH a couple of days ago and he said Saints got our stripes from borrowing a Stoke kit many many years ago.Apparently when we were St.Marys we were playing a friendly against some team and didn't have a strip so Stoke loaned us theirs for the match and in appreciation of that gesture we adopted the stripes.This is the first time I've ever heard this so if one of our 'historians' can help shed some light on this I'd appreciate it. It's utter bullocks. Stoke wore stripes from 1883-1891 but Saints started with their stripes in 1896 - Stoke already hadn't been wearing red and white for 5 years by then, and didn't again until 1908. So there's no overlap where we could have got red/white striped kits from Stoke, unless we hung onto the shirts for 5 years before wearing them! Saints were also only known as St Mary's until 1896, the stripes came along with the Southampton (only) name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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