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Wheelfass

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I don't think that is correct. They have always been known as the Citizens, but also as the Light Blues and the Sky Blues.

They wore sky blue well before us too.

Think it's only lately the media have latched on to it though.
Good subject for a debate Otis. Been a fan since 62 and so can only ever recall us being the Sky Blues. I do however remember Man City being refered to as the light blues. If you think about it logically do you think that Jimmy Hill would have stolen another clubs nickname or would he have preferred something new and original?
 

Otis

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Good subject for a debate Otis. Been a fan since 62 and so can only ever recall us being the Sky Blues. I do however remember Man City being refered to as the light blues. If you think about it logically do you think that Jimmy Hill would have stolen another clubs nickname or would he have preferred something new and original?
I had no idea either that Man City were also known as the Sky Blues, I too always thought we were the Sky Blues and they were the Light Blues, so when lately the press started calling them the Sky Blues I was a bit puzzled.

Turns out they have always been the Sky Blues too.

Wonder what Jimmy Hill's reasoning was to call us the Sky Blues. Is it documented anywhere?
 

Captain Dart

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Maybe we should go to horizontal strips to make our players look broader and scare the opposition.

Imagine Mickey Quinn in hoops.. no don't it could put you off your cornflakes.
 

Wheelfass

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I had no idea either that Man City were also known as the Sky Blues, I too always thought we were the Sky Blues and they were the Light Blues, so when lately the press started calling them the Sky Blues I was a bit puzzled.

Turns out they have always been the Sky Blues too.

Wonder what Jimmy Hill's reasoning was to call us the Sky Blues. Is it documented anywhere?
Hmmmmmm....I think the footballing world needs to be quite sure that we are the ONLY Sky Blues. Maybe we could get Jim Brown involved who could maybe in turn contact a Man City historian to set the record straight. I feel sure that JH would have done his homework on the nickname first. And in any case at the dawning of the Sky Blue era there would most certainly have been protests from "Maine Road" had we been encroaching into their own history. I feel sure this has been created by some ignorant media representative who has perhaps unknowingly made a slip of the tongue that has escalated.
Would you like to start it up as a thread for investigation....many hands etc.
 
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skyblueinBaku

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I'm sure that when JH introduced the all sky blue kit, Man City wore sky blue shirts and white shorts. I'm sure that I read somewhere that our all sky blue kit was the first all one colour kit. Even Liverpool were not all red in those days. I think their socks were a different colour.
 

Otis

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I wonder why JH chose sky blue though. Sky's the limit maybe?

Obvious once he chose the Sky blue kit we would then be the Sky Blues, but would like to know why he chose sky blue.
 

Otis

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I'm sure that when JH introduced the all sky blue kit, Man City wore sky blue shirts and white shorts. I'm sure that I read somewhere that our all sky blue kit was the first all one colour kit. Even Liverpool were not all red in those days. I think their socks were a different colour.
Man City wore sky blue shirts and white shorts for every single season between 1896 and 1976.

In 1976 they went to an all sky blue kit.

They went back to sky blue shirts and white shorts in 1985.
 

Joy Division

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I've never once heard Manchester City referred to as the Sky Blues and any media form.

Plain sky blue kits all the way for me.
 

Otis

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Think it isn't a name they use themselves all the time, as they are also known as the Blues and the Citizens, but it is definitely one of their nicknames.

What I think has happened is that the press have suddenly latched on to it and now they are forever being labeled as such.
 

stupot07

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All over the papers and in the TV match commentaries. Forever being called the Sky Blues.

Yeah, I've really noticed in the last couple of years. Had never heard anyone refer to them as that before sky started doing it.


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Otis

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Yeah, I've really noticed in the last couple of years. Had never heard anyone refer to them as that before sky started doing it.


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Yep seems to have developed into a trend. Had never ever heard them called that before, but now all of a sudden it seems to be the thing to call them.

Would say I have noticed it in the last 2 years or so.
 

LilleSkyBlue

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Canal + (subscription TV channel) in France are always calling Manchester City 'the Sky Blues'. I had assumed it was some sort of odd intercultural slip or historical curiosity.

By way of further example, in France Football magazine Celtic are always called 'Celtic Glasgow' and Liverpool are always known as 'Liverpool FC'; the only Premier League team to get the FC suffix.
 
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Otis

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Yeah, but with Liverpool, the FC means something different entirely to football club.
 

thewards5579

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Man City wore sky blue shirts and white shorts for every single season between 1896 and 1976.

In 1976 they went to an all sky blue kit.

They went back to sky blue shirts and white shorts in 1985.
So as we were in entire sky blue between 62/72 we are the original sky blues Otis

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Otis

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So as we were in entire sky blue between 62/72 we are the original sky blues Otis

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Yep, not arguing that. Just saying Man City have now taken the mantle. Not so bothered by the name, but I don't want our kit to look like theirs. One of the reasons I like the Sky blue stripes, to make us look a bit more distinct and unique.
 

oakey

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Yep, not arguing that. Just saying Man City have now taken the mantle. Not so bothered by the name, but I don't want our kit to look like theirs. One of the reasons I like the Sky blue stripes, to make us look a bit more distinct and unique.
As we were the first to have an all sky blue kit and they had one later, for a while, I think your argument is weak. What it boils down to is they stole our kit and we should just let them. The big boy stole my ball so I have to find another. As MT would say, weak weak weak.

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Otis

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Nope, not at all. You are forgetting the key fact in my argument and that is that I love the stripes and much prefer the stripes.

I don't particularly like the plain all sky blue, because I think it just looks a little wishy washy.

No weak argument to be had. I don't want us to look like Man City and at the moment we don't. We have my favourite stripes.

I want us to wear stripes and we are wearing stripes. Where is the weak argument? :)
 

stupot07

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Are you having hallucinations again?

Unfortunately not....although having re-clicked on the link she's working her way across the page...

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Otis

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And besides, how can they have 'stolen our kit' Oakey? They have been wearing sky blue for every season since 1894!
 

Sky Blue Kid

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When all is said and done, no football club has got a exclusivity on any colour kit. Burnley, West Ham, Villa have all at one time or other worn Claret shirts with Sky Blue sleeves. Stoke, Sunderland, Sheff Utd and Southampton have all worn Red and White Stripes. ;)
 

Otis

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When all is said and done, no football club has got a exclusivity on any colour kit. Burnley, West Ham, Villa have all at one time or other worn Claret shirts with Sky Blue sleeves. Stoke, Sunderland, Sheff Utd and Southampton have all worn Red and White Stripes. ;)

Did someone just mention stripes? ;)
 

oakey

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And besides, how can they have 'stolen our kit' Oakey? They have been wearing sky blue for every season since 1894!

Not all sky blue, we were the first and wore it for most of the 15 seasons before they ever wore it. In the 60s and 70s everyone knew we were the sky blues, Manchester City were NEVER called that. Your argument is that we shouldn't copy them because they are now considered the sky blues by the sky generation. We aren't copying them, they copied us. That is why it is a weak argument.

My brother in law is a 66 year old Manchester City fan who has watched them from the 60s and he has never referred to them as the sky blues. I have known him for 33 years and talked football with him numerous times. Plus, they don't play in all sky blue.

This is a generation thing, I think. If you started watching football in the 80s or 90s you see us as a stripy team. If you are of an earlier vintage we're the all sky blues.

:)
 

Otis

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Not all sky blue, we were the first and wore it for most of the 15 seasons before they ever wore it. In the 60s and 70s everyone knew we were the sky blues, Manchester City were NEVER called that. Your argument is that we shouldn't copy them because they are now considered the sky blues by the sky generation. We aren't copying them, they copied us. That is why it is a weak argument.

My brother in law is a 66 year old Manchester City fan who has watched them from the 60s and he has never referred to them as the sky blues. I have known him for 33 years and talked football with him numerous times. Plus, they don't play in all sky blue.

This is a generation thing, I think. If you started watching football in the 80s or 90s you see us as a stripy team. If you are of an earlier vintage we're the all sky blues.

:)


Not going to argue with you. :) We are talking about different things. I just don't like the plain sky blue kit so much and I love the stripes. I just don't want us to go back to the plain sky blue which will then have us looking more like Man City.

And I am from the 60's generation Oakey!!
 

oakey

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Not going to argue with you. :) We are talking about different things. I just don't like the plain sky blue kit so much and I love the stripes. I just don't want us to go back to the plain sky blue which will then have us looking more like Man City.

And I am from the 60's generation Oakey!!

Maybe you had your eyes shut for the first few years.
I have always disliked any home kit that isn't primarily sky blue. I do like stripes if the sky blue is prevalent and the shorts and socks are sky blue. So maybe we could both be pleased.

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