It's All Over Now, Baby Blue

Season starts tomorrow - yippee!

I'm still not convinced about that new kit though, you know.

Let's face it - it's mainly blue. However you want to frame it, it's a blue kit with yellow, rather than a yellow and blue kit.

Now, I know the arguments about the fact that we only started wearing Yellow in the mid-70s, before that it was gold and if you go back far enough we actually wore gold and blue stripes - you can view the entire history here on Long John Silver's excellent OxKits site.

But we are The Yellows. We sing that song "Come on you Yellows" when we get a corner. We sing that other one, about building it up with Yellow & Blue whilst the apparently falling down S***don Town are asked to vacate the general area.

It will seem silly enough if we are singing Come on You Yellows tomorrow at Burton when they will assumedly be the team in yellow, but it will be stranger still to be singing it at home when we are wearing blue.

Look at the picture of the new shirt here. Now, whilst you may think there is quite a bit of yellow on the front, and that will do, you would be wrong. The sleeves and back thanks to the square needed for numbering, are entirely blue. So are the shorts. And Socks.

When the players are attacking the Fence End at The KasStad, The East Stand will only see blue.

I'm still to be convinced about this therefore being a good idea, as you will obviously realise. I guess if the team scores goals and win games, it doesn't really matter what colour shirt they are wearing. I'm just a traditionalist is all, but I'm sure there was a similar ruffling of feathers when yellow was first introduced, only 30-odd years ago.

Plus, the club is making a few bucks out if it too. You'll always find some idiot prepared to part with his cash, it seems.