Retro Victorian Boro Shirt

Anyone know why we switched from blue to red at the turn of the century?

Our first shirt on record is blue and black stripes. I imagine this is where the inter away shirt comes from.
 
I think it’s great, I love the original shirt they have on display at the stadium. £35 including delivery is also very reasonable - especially with a portion supporting the foundation.

I’ve ordered one 👍
 
I like it. The collar pattern is something you don’t see on a modern shirt (maybe a very good reason for that, although anything seems to go at the moment) and that’s an interesting twist. Badge is great too.
 
Historian, wasn't having a dig at u personally 😂
I was having a dig at the material now used. I don't have a six pack, more of a keg
 
Should bring the nops back, imagine another Middlesbrough club in the northern league or whatever its called these days....and owned by the fans msybe
 
Sheriff_John_Bunnell_ret said:
Anyone know why we switched from blue to red at the turn of the century?

Our first shirt on record is blue and black stripes. I imagine this is where the inter away shirt comes from.
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I heard it was when we turned up at Preston the shirts clashed so Preston lent us their second strip, which was red. Boro won and thought this was a lucky omen so kept the colour.
 
This is the earliest photo I can find.
1895 winners of the northern league and amateur cup. Chap on the left is wearing the shirt. Photo is from the club website

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Oh and it looks like the keeper (in the cap) is wearing it too.

Anyone interested in Victorian football I would recommend a book called beastly fury by Richard Saunders. Not much about the Boro in it, but it does have a bit on the amateur cup.
The third trophy I imagine will be the north riding senior cup which has been going since the 1880s.
 
Notice skipper Tom Bach, front centre. Mike McGeary, former Boro Press Officer pointed out to me that he never faces the camera in any photo - superstition it seems. He deliverately looks away on every team photo.
 
We need Tosh Warwick here but I think it is a very rare photo of the Linthorpe Road ground, our home for 20 years or so before Ayresome Park was built in 1903. That was the first League ground for Boro or Borough. It was roughly opposite the Swatters Carr pub. There was a fence behind the goal at the Linthorpe Road end. You went down a track (Clifton Street) to go along the side of the pitch and the main stand. A historian called Paul Stephenson, who sadly died last week once pointed out to me where the dug outs were along Clifton Street.
The main stand was moved to the new Ayresome Park and used opposite the main stand there until replaced between the wars by the South Stand that Ayresome regulars reading this would remember.
 
If anyone's interested, the company producing this shirt (World Retro) also do a couple of Ironopolis shirts (a green and burgundy halved shirt and a later all red with white sash one). Perhaps sensibly they haven't bothered with the red and white striped shirt the Nops also wore! Both shirts are on their website under Middlesbrough Ironopolis and both have the town crest as the badge.
 
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