Salu2
Lesejo

ARG: white & sky blue, black, grey.
BUL: red, white, white.

and for the mentioned match ENG:ARG of the same WC, the kit colours are:

ENG: white, white, white.
ARG: blue, black, grey.

Thanks!

Salu2

I know from the Umbro blog on their past kits that Australia did indeed have a green away shirt, but they wore yellow for all three group matches. Also, West Germany were made to wear their green away kit (despite there being no clash) with the Aussies, though the black socks stated in the colours sheet turned out to be wrong – the host nation wearing green socks.

There is another really strange instance in that tournament, and that is Bulgaria being made to wear their red away kit for no apparent reason against the orange of Holland. A terrible colour clash, which no doubt looked a lot worse on colour television. Argentina vs Poland was another very poor kit clash, considering one of the teams should have been made to change to their away kit, and no matter if you were watching colour or black and white television, the shirts would have been hard to distinguish.

The madness carried on into the second round group phase, where Brazil were made to change into their blue, yes, BLUE kit against Argentina.

Please, download this image. Sorry, because is in spanish, but is one best evidence that the appointment of the kit colours of the matchs of the Final Phase is before the kick off the first match.

Jon – thanks for clearing up the Uruguay situation – I think I would quite like to be a penpusher at FIFA – deciding who wore what kit!!

And Lesejo, just watched the Mexico/USSR game on YouTube – it was in colour but I had to laugh at how people with BW TVs must have struggled to decipher the green shirts/white shorts/green socks against the red shirts/white shorts/red socks!! Perhaps that was the game that instigated FIFA’s old rule of one light shirt vs one dark shirt?!

I don’t speak English to talk about with all of you on this fantastic Forum of kit colours in the final phases of WC.

Thanks to all by your fantastic contributions.

You remember the inagural match of the WC 1970 Mexico vs. USSR?
Who had the brilliant idea to equip both with his official colours and but when the TV was still in many countrys in b&w???

http://www.footballshirtculture.com/images/Uruguay-10-11-puma-football-shirts-5.jpg

As you can see, it’s the same design as the white kit used in the World Cup, but with the Puma and AUF logos in the centre instead.

Also, on that same blog they also showed a picture of the home shirt, which was exactly the same as the current shirt, except for the Puma logos, which were in red rather than white. Interestingly Uruguay’s official tracksuits had red Puma logos and “URUGUAY” written on the back in red.

As for the goalkeeper jersey clashes, I recall it was a brief rule in the Premier League a few seasons ago, where both teams’ goalkeepers had to wear different colours. The reasons for this are unknown but the ruling seems to have been relaxed, after seeing numerous instances of goalies wearing almost identical colours.

I even remember a bit of a hoo-hah delivered by some newspaper after the Arsenal v Hull game in the 08/09 season, when both goalkeepers wore green, as did the match officials. But nobody batted an eyelid when international goalkeepers regularly wore black strips, which of course clashed with the officials during the days when they almost always wore black.

And back to that Germany v Argentina incident, I’m not sure why Germany were made to wear black shorts either. Ironically, when the two sides met in the World Cup four years previous, there was a shorts clash there too, only that time Argentina were, for some strange reason, made to change their white away shorts for the black home pair, which looked a mis-match for their navy away shirts and socks. Yet another bizarre occurence that only the penpushers at FIFA can answer (only they are stuck in their ivory tower, no doubt very much unapproachable about the matter!!!!!!!!)