according to this site we first wore read and blue stripes in 1937/38 ... our own site says the stripes were claret and blue back then, be nice if our current colours did have pre-war roots, though I really like our colours I don't like junking history, Big Mal was all about rebranding into some family oriented pseudo American image, with nicknames more suited to basketball teams and all that, the old calret and blue pinstripes had a sort of pearly king windy uppy piano with a monkey on and punched holes in the the music score sheet traditionalism about it ... I was sure I've seen this on 'club colours before, my soul would be more restful if we were red and blue back in the day, but there again i am a bit of an a*sehole.

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Ah yes. Back in the day when one linesman carried a cerise flag and the other one a yellow flag,

Palace since 19 August 1972. Palace 1 (Tony Taylor) Liverpool 1 (Emlyn Hughes)

yes but ...

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very hard to find a colour photo from back then, even before 'technicolour' - but for those of us of a certain vintage who could follow snooker in B&W in the days of Pot Black the photo I put up is clearly scarlet and royal blue and not claret and light blue - your undue sarcasm is down to your untrained eye young man.