Repeat performance
We’ve reached the penultimate tie in the opening phase of our Away Kit Battle, which has produced a remarkably similar contest to last week.
On that occasion, Cliftonville’s Yellow jersey from the 1993/94 season overcame a Navy & Green striped effort from a couple of years later – but will history repeat itself in this latest showdown?
Another Navy & Green striped shirt – this time from the 1994/95 campaign – finds itself up against the Yellow & Blue reverse commissioned for the 2009 Irish Cup Final and worn for the following term, but which of the two gets your vote?
In our bid to determine Cliftonville’s best and worst change strips of the last 30 years, we’re sending our fans to the polls to decide which weekly nomination makes progress to the competition’s next round – although the most recent addition to the collection will not be included.
The motivation behind your vote rests entirely with you. Perhaps it was the away strip the Reds wore in your first season following them across the land, or maybe there’s a favourite player from that era who’s synonymous with a particular kit in your mind’s eye.
Did the team surge to trophy success while bedecked in a certain top or, from a purely aesthetical point of view, do you just happen to like the colour and design more than the others?
Whatever your reason, we want supporters young and old to play their part in helping us compile a definitive list that stretches all the way back to 1990.
As part of the draw process, all of the jerseys in contention were divided into colour-coordinated pots (thus ensuring, for example, that no yellow kit would face off against another in the opening phase) before random pairings were conducted to produce 10 head-to-head battles – the most recent of which you can vote on below.
Our poll closes at noon on Monday, so you’ve got the whole weekend to take your time and make a considered decision before clicking the button.
Stars In Stripes
Supplier: O’Neill’s
Sponsor: Total Haulage
Worn: 1994/95
Notes: The first of two consecutive Navy & Green striped away shirts, this ensemble exhibited finer strips and was worn when the team triumphed at the McEwan’s Soccer Sixes in 1995 (although it should be heeded that it was traditionally worn with navy shorts, as opposed to white as per the image).
Strip Down Memory Lane
Supplier: Puma
Sponsor: Allan’s Pharmacy
Worn: 2009/10
Notes: Released ahead of the 2009 Irish Cup Final to commemorate 30 years since Cliftonville’s last victory in the competition, this kit was also sported for the subsequent campaign and was perhaps most famously donned for the madcap North Belfast Derby victory over Crusaders at Seaview in December.
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