OLD COLOURS

I am watching Sutton United and Bromley on the Gander Green astro in the National League. The Us are not doing very well. So I would write about that had they won but decided instead to educate you with some historic information. In 1891 the Football League announced that only one club could wear a particular style of kit.  So Sunderland had red and white stripes, Stoke City didn't!
Here is a list of the earliest recorded colours of Victorian Era football clubs:-
Arsenal-Garibaldi red, a maroon
Aston Villa-scarlet and royal blue hoops
Blackburn Rovers-white with a Maltese Cross on the left breast
Derby County-amber and chocolate halves with blue sleeves until 1890s
Fulham-red and white halves
Leicester City-black with blue diagonal stripe
Liverpool-blue and white halves as shown below until 1894

Manchester City-black with Maltese Cross on left breast
The cross based on the Knights of Malta and associated with "courage"
Manchester Utd-green and gold halves until name change from Newton Heath in 1902 and red and white was adopted.
Here is the United kit worn in 1909!
Newcastle Utd-red which was chosen to avoid the kit colour of the two clubs United formed from (Newcastle West End and East End) in 1892.
Notts County-orange and black, then chocolate and blue and then black and white stripes a kit copied by Juventus.
Sheffield Wednesday-royal blue and white hoops as worn in 1871
Stoke City-crimson and blue hoops, then black and blue hoops, then red and white stripes in 1883.
Sunderland-navy blue until 1884, then red and white halves, then red and white stripes in 1887.
Tottenham Hotspur-navy blue with red H on red shield on left breast
WBA-white with purple diagonal sash amongst many other combos!
West Ham Utd-Harrovian Blue-Chairman Arnold Hill was an old Boy!
Wolves-blue and white stripes
It makes you wonder when they change colours?!