club and county colors

**Dr.Nightdub** · 10/04/2007, 6:09 PM

Originally Posted by The Man Himself

any team in any sport from waterford always wares the blue and white when they are representing the county

oscar traynor team

What's that, a new sport?

**Schumi** · 10/04/2007, 7:40 PM

Originally Posted by noby

(is there a pedantic smilie?)

It's just taken as read at this stage.

**historynut** · 10/04/2007, 9:53 PM

Longford's first choice colours known because of link with Bohs, is not change kit county colours Yellow/Blue. Recall FAI Final few years back, many in crowd sporting those colours.

**Philo** · 10/04/2007, 11:45 PM

Originally Posted by historynut

Longford's first choice colours known because of link with Bohs, is not change kit county colours Yellow/Blue. Recall FAI Final few years back, many in crowd sporting those colours.

Yeah but many in their crowd also spent the entire match chewing on bits of straw and waving at planes flying overhead.

**galwayhoop** · 11/04/2007, 12:10 AM

Originally Posted by Philo

Yeah but many in their crowd also spent the entire match chewing on bits of straw and waving at planes flying overhead.

better than queing for the dole and banging up in the toilets

**Raheny Red** · 11/04/2007, 12:45 PM

Originally Posted by Erstwhile B�z

Speaking of which, does anybody else have red-green blindness? Poxy hard watching that match last night with both teams having the same jerseys.

Alan Moore!

**Lim till i die** · 11/04/2007, 3:29 PM

Originally Posted by Philo

Yeah but many in their crowd also spent the entire match chewing on bits of straw and waving at planes flying overhead.

LMAO

**don ramo** · 11/04/2007, 5:56 PM

interesting the colours alright, i think our clarlet and blue came form the birmingham soldiers stationed in cobh during the s**** times, and we got our colours from birmigham in england (well aston villa not birmingham city) some other colours are traditional to the history of the team, such as germany have a green away jersey as a mark of respect of the irish being the first team to paly them after WW2, and they still wear green away, so colours are formed towards the history more than county i think,

**noby** · 12/04/2007, 7:44 AM

germany have a green away jersey as a mark of respect of the irish being the first team to paly them after WW2,

I thought this was archived under 'Myths and Legends', in the 'Aren't us Irish great' file.

**dcfc_1928** · 12/04/2007, 8:14 AM

I thought that was exposed a few times as an urban myth.

Germany played Switzerland, Turkey and Austria before playing Ireland after the war.

Originally Posted by don ramo

..... such as germany have a green away jersey as a mark of respect of the irish being the first team to paly them after WW2, and they still wear green away, so colours are formed towards the history more than county i think,

**Dodge** · 12/04/2007, 9:16 AM

100% false. Can't actually believe some people still think that

**Jerry The Saint** · 12/04/2007, 9:45 AM

Originally Posted by noby

I thought this was archived under 'Myths and Legends', in the 'Aren't us Irish great' file.

See Also:

- Pele got his name from the Christian Brothers who called him 'Peile'

- Socrates played for UCD

- Panathanaikos was founded by an Irishman (possibly a Shamrock Rovers fan) who designed their crest and jerseys...

The persistence of this rumour is a good example of Stephen Colbert's principle of Wikiality

You see, any user can change any entry, and if enough other users agree with them, it becomes true. ... If only the entire body of human knowledge worked this way. And it can, thanks to tonight's word: Wikiality. Now, folks, I'm no fan of reality, and I'm no fan of encyclopedias. I've said it before. Who is Britannica to tell me that George Washington had slaves? If I want to say he didn't, that's my right. And now, thanks to Wikipedia, it's also a fact.

We should apply these principles to all information. All we need to do is convince a majority of people that some factoid is true. ... What we're doing is bringing democracy to knowledge

**don ramo** · 12/04/2007, 11:00 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany..._football_team

bottom of the page on the triva section, 4th line down, i got it wrong not the first team to play them, but the first team to play them in a friendly after the war,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republi..._1930s_Results
gamem was a draw

**gspain** · 12/04/2007, 11:06 AM

This is definitely not true. Apparently green is the official colour of the DFB (German Football Association).

This is an old urban myth that keeps getting repeated. They played Switzerland home and away, Turkey and Austria before coming to Dublin.

**don ramo** · 12/04/2007, 11:16 AM

they played them in competitive fixtures cause they were drawn against them and they palyed at neutral venues, ireland were the first team to agree to a friendly on german soil after the war, this made the other teams come around and eventually they started playin them at home, the second link i posted was ireland fixtures from the 30's as you see we palyed them away in Weserstadion, Bremen, Germany,

it must be a conspiracy

**noby** · 12/04/2007, 11:20 AM

Quoting Wikipedia isn't the most reliable source.
Your first link gives these two quotes, one paragraph apart:

Historically, green shirt with white shorts is the most often used alternative colour combination, derived from the DFB colours

Germany's common use of a green-coloured away jersey appears to be in recognition of the fact that Ireland were the first nation to play Germany in a friendly game after World War 2

The reference link for the Irish one is to a Guardian article, where someone wrote in to answer the same question, again with no reference provided.