Colours and Crest
The previous club badge was very similar to the F.C. Barcelona badge. The flag of St. George appeared on both badges, showing his links to England as well as Catalonia. The club's home shirt is the traditional black and white kit. When playing away from home the club wear an all green kit.
In December 2010 chairman Dale Vince publicly announced his consideration that for the 2011–12 season the club would introduce a pink away kit and in May 2011 the club released a consultation for supporters inviting opinions on the clubs decision to change its badge. The new badge was finalised and was rolled out in time for the beginning of the 2011–2012 season.
On 2 July 2012 it was announced that the club would change its home strip from its traditional black and white stripes to a lime green shirt with black shorts and socks. The decision to ditch the traditional black and white stripes proved controversial with many supporters. The away strip was also changed to an all white kit with the dates '1899–2012' near the neckline of the kit to indicate the years when the club first played in an all white kit and the decision to bring it back in 2012.
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Colours and words that are unknown to man,
To paint the visionary dreariness”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
“So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
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The horn, the horn, the lusty horn
Is not a thing to laugh to scorn.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)