Manchester City F.C Strip

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Manchester City F.C. strip

Manchester City Football Club is an English professional football club founded in 1880 as St Marks (West Gorton) and currently based in east Manchester, Sportcity near Gorton where the club originally originated. The club's main colour is a distinctive light blue.

As St Marks (West Gorton) they played in a black strip from 1884–1887 and then in blue and white strips as Ardwick F.C. during 1887-1894. Since their inception as Manchester City Football Club in 1894, the club's main colour evolved over time into the colour of light blue and have always maintained this as the main home colour in all of their kits to date.

The club runs a series of partnerships and sponsorships with various companies. Their main partnership is with Etihad Airways with the club having a deal until 2021 which features broad agreement across many fronts unlike other football club sponsorship deals. Other partnership deals include EA Sports and Jaguar with a deal expected with Disney-owned ESPN in 2011.

Manchester City is often referred to as Man City purely out of convenience as a shorter name. The club are perhaps the most known club with the title of City in their name, hence why the club are often just referred to as City. Other nicknames include The Blues, The Sky Blues, and The Citizens, which is more often used outside England.

Traditional colours

Sky blue

The first use of sky blue for a Manchester City was the season in which Manchester City formed in 1894 changing from Ardwick.

Black

St. Marks (Gorton) in 1884 – the reason for the Maltese cross is unknown to this day

Reports dating from 1884 describe the team wearing black jerseys bearing a white cross, showing the club's origins as a church side.

Red and black

A booklet entitled Famous Football Clubs – Manchester City published in the 1940s indicates that West Gorton (St. Marks) originally played in scarlet and black.

In the 1960s, Malcolm Allison, then assistant manager to Joe Mercer insisted on the club wearing red and black striped away shirts. The belief was Allison wished to replicate the colours of AC Milan to inspire his players and give the team confidence.

Strangely enough, the idea worked and in the ensuing years won the 1969 FA Cup Final and 1970 European Cup Winners' Cup in red and black and were recognised as one of the most exciting teams in English football.

The kit was revived in 2004 for one season. But when the 2010-11 season saw past City greats such as Malcolm Allison, Neil Young and Mike Doyle pass away the red and black strips were revived in the away kit for the 2011-12 season. The club unveiled the red and black away kit at the homecoming parade in May 2011 when the club paraded their first FA Cup triumph since the red and black team of the 1960s and early 70s.

 Scarves

Roberto Mancini popularised the use of split blue and white scarves in the colours of Manchester City

In recent years, the club has become synonymous with plain blue and white 'split' scarves which were common in the pre-1970s in football. The blue and white scarf gained prominence under manager Roberto Mancini who continued his tradition of wearing a scarf of the club's colours which he manages. Mancini first wore a scarf when taking over as manager of Manchester City in December 2009 subsequently the club sold out of the scarves.

In 2011, the red and black colours worn by City in the last 1960s and early 1970s were revived in scarf form. During Manchester City's FA Cup run in 2010-11, the club were drawn against Leicester City. City bowed to pleas from Manchester City supporters to honour Neil Young, the scorer of Manchester City's winning goal in the 1969 FA Cup Final and who had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Consequently the club decided to produce special red and black scarves for supporters to take to Leicester for the third round tie. Coincidently, the red and black colours were introduced by former City manager Malcolm Allison who died earlier in the season and poignantly City won the 2010-11 FA Cup, their first since the famous red and black team of 1969.

In 2011, Manchester City decided to commission a tartan to commemorate the links between Selkirk and Manchester City where Bobby Johnstone was born. The tartan partern will be on various merchandise for winter 2011 including a scarf.

Badge

City have previously worn two other badges on their shirts. The first, introduced in 1970, was based on designs which had been used on official club documentation since the mid-1960s. It consisted of a circular badge which used the same shield as the current badge, inside a circle bearing the name of the club. In 1972, this was replaced by a variation which replaced the lower half of the shield with the red rose of Lancashire.

Current badge

The current club badgewas adopted in 1997, the exact reason of the badge change is believed to have been down to problems copyrighting the pre-1997 badge with the club stating: "an unsatisfactory situation had developed at Manchester City regarding the licensing out of the round badge on an ad hoc basis which has led to a number of problems with counterfeit goods. This we felt was leading to a devaluing of the Manchester City brand, and consequently its badge in both the modern market and in football." however some claim this is not the true reason for the new badge.

The badge is based on the arms of the city of Manchester, and consists of a shield in front of a golden eagle. The eagle is an old heraldic symbol of the city of Manchester; a golden eagle was added to the city's badge in 1958 (but has since been removed), representing the growing aviation industry. The shield features a ship on its upper half representing the Manchester Ship Canal, and three diagonal stripes in the lower half, for the city's three rivers. The bottom of the badge bears the Latin motto Superbia in Proelio which translates as Pride in Battle. Above the eagle and shield are three stars, which are purely decorative. As of 2010 the club has no intention of revising the current badge. Although the element of the eagle in the new badge design was not well received by famous City fan Noel Gallagher, "It looks like the Lazio badge with that eagle on it. The last badge had a little ship on it going down the Manchester Ship Canal and the rose of Lancashire. When was the last time you saw an eagle in Manchester?"

Manchester Coat of Arms

Manchester coat of arms

Whenever Manchester City plays in a major cup final or at Wembley, the club maintains a unique tradition of not wearing the usual badge; instead shirts bearing a badge of the City of Manchester coat of arms are used, as a symbol of pride in representing the city of Manchester at a major event. This practice originates from a time when the players' shirts did not normally bear a badge of any kind, but has continued throughout the history of the club. The coat of arms were used since the 1926 FA Cup Final to all major finals at Wembley or in European competition until the 1981 FA Cup Final.

The shield base is red with three gold bands diagonally across to the right hand side representing the three rivers of Manchester: the Medlock, the Irwell and the Irk. The top segment shows a ship in full sail, a reference to the city's trading base and to the Manchester Ship Canal. On a multicoloured wreath is a terrestrial globe, which symbols Manchester's world trade. In the globe, bees are depicted in heraldic terms represents efficient industry and the Manchester bee is symbol seen around the city. To this day the bee is often used as a shorthand emblem of Manchester and the black and gold colour has been used in Manchester City's kit to represent the Manchester bee.

The last official acknowledgement that the Manchester coat of arms would adorn the Manchester City shirt at a Wembley or cup final was when the club released a press release in 1997 revealing their new badge, in which the club stated: "The new club crest is based on elements from the original "Arms of the City of Manchester", the badge which is still used by Manchester City PLC today and worn on the team shirt for all Wembley occasions"

The home shirt planned used in the 2011 FA Cup Final had the current badge but will have the Manchester coat of arms involved in the numbers on the back of the kit, rather than replacing the current Manchester City badge on the front of the shirt.