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11:39am Monday 17th March 2008

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Crystal Palace are to do away with their traditional red and blue striped shirts for next season.

Instead they are going back to the sash design with one red and one blue stripe next to each other going from the left shoulder to the right hip on a white shirt.

It will be the first time the club have worn the sash since the 1986 -1987 season having worn it for all but one season in the decade before that. During that time they achieved promotion to the old Division Two and Division One leagues, but also suffered relegation from the then top flight in 1981.

The club's away kit will be a yellow shirt with blue shorts.

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John Gregory, Maidstone says...
6:15pm Mon 17 Mar 08

Changing shirts for next season? another scam to rob the kids of their pocket money.
Greedy football people

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Jonathan, Croydon says...
2:20pm Tue 18 Mar 08

John Gregory wrote:
Changing shirts for next season? another scam to rob the kids of their pocket money. Greedy football people
Not exactly.... The fans asked for a sash shirt and their were petitions on two websites to get this changed. If anyone is to blame it is us the fans and nothing to do with the football club!!

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John Gregory, Maidstone says...
5:07pm Tue 18 Mar 08

Appologies to Jonathan for getting it wrong regarding Palace changing shirts for next season. Pity our friends at the Guardian didn't say it was the fans decision to change the shirts in their report. I always thought the Palace fans were worth a few bob.

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rob, bromley says...
6:36pm Tue 18 Mar 08

The club was always going to change the kit. The fans just got to pick which one.

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Phil Anthropist, Ayr says...
7:17pm Tue 18 Mar 08

John Gregory, are you the John Gregory of crap managerial fame?

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John Gregory, Maidstone says...
8:33pm Tue 18 Mar 08

Phil Anthropist, I have now crossed your name out of the will.


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Matt Leyland, Stamford says...
11:50pm Tue 18 Mar 08

Love the new kits, apart from the errea bit on the sleeve of the home kit looks a bit tacky...otherwise a big thumbs up for both home and away kits!

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Jonathan, Croydon says...
10:35am Wed 19 Mar 08

Matt Leyland wrote:
Love the new kits, apart from the errea bit on the sleeve of the home kit looks a bit tacky...otherwise a big thumbs up for both home and away kits!
It's a bit of a homage to the old Admiral kit of the early 80's, rather than the Adidas version released in the late 70's. I would have prefered to have the Light Blue with Red sash as the away shirt instead of the Yellow.

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slumpy, Maidstone says...
11:57am Wed 19 Mar 08

Does this mean a return to the double-shortarse front line like Alan Whittle and Don Rogers? No more long-balls when your strikers are only 5'6"!

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George, Croydon says...
4:53pm Wed 19 Mar 08

I think the new home kit looks great. I agree that maybe the errea logo going the sleeves does make it look a little pants; but overall I think I will be buying this kit when the new season starts. the Away looks good too.

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Dazron, Northampton says...
6:48pm Wed 19 Mar 08

We certainly didn't ask for it as our home kit...

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Jonathan, Croydon says...
6:25pm Thu 20 Mar 08

Dazron wrote:
We certainly didn't ask for it as our home kit...
You may not have but many people did want it as our home kit.... I for one am glad that it is our home kit, considering I was brought up in the late 70's early 80's.

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Jonathan, Croydon says...
4:07pm Fri 21 Mar 08

Just to add that the shirts were voted for BY THE FANS so the fans DID choose the sash as next seasons home shirt. The fans had a choice of the stripes or the sash as the home shirt and the yellow shirt and another variation of the sash. To say the fans didn't want the sash as the home shirt is extremely wide of the mark. Anyway, who cares.... It's only a shirt, if you don't like it you don't buy it.... As fans we do also have that choice!!

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David Barker, says...
12:01pm Sat 22 Mar 08

Jonathan, you are being very naive!! You have fallen for one of the oldest tricks in the book! Club puts a fans poll up, picks the kit they really want then there can be no complaints cos the fans picked the kit! lol. Having a totally different colour home kit is the perfect way to sell more shirts as most people would look a bit silly wearing red n' ble at Selhurst. I don't know anyone who voted for the sash kit for home - it would have been great for away. And just 36 per cent voted for it on supporters website http://www.holmesdal
e.net/page.php?id=96

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Paul Jewell, Croydon says...
9:42am Wed 2 Apr 08

I really wanted Home = A and Away = (Home B)! Oh well - back to the sash it is

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Realist, Selhurst says...
11:37am Thu 17 Apr 08

Get a grip guys, most Championship teams change their kit every season, if you don't like it, don't buy it. It's only a football shirt.

As for greed, it is not exactly a secret that running a football club outside of the Prem these days is a loss making activity.

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