Gold caller

Our supporters have spoken and the first entrant to qualify for the last 16 of the Cliftonville Away Kit Battle is the Gold and Green number from the 1997/98 season.

With hundreds of Reds fans having participated in this weekend’s poll, the strip – sported by the team that won the Premier League title – took 59% of the vote to book its place in the next round at the expense of the bottle-green reverse worn on the road between 2004-2007.

That 125th Anniversary jersey will not, however, drop out of the race entirely and will later join the other first phase losers in a second-chance saloon as we bid to compile the definitive list of the Club’s best and worst away kits of the last 30 years.

Everyone will naturally have their own favourite efforts and, with just a few days to wait until our next head-to-head battle, have you decided which strip you’d vote for out of any given combination?