Anyone know the answer to this?

[BIRCHYBOY27]

There is only one club in the football league that can insist on wearing
their home kit on any away game?

 

[7:18]

Newcastle?

 

[Frutos]

Preston?

Something to do with their being the first ever League Champions (I'm sure I remember having heard that somewhere).

 

[ditchy]

Notts county

 

[Titanic]

There is only one club in the football league that can insist on wearing
their home kit on any away game?

Reading ?

 

[rospants]

from the ' who ate all the pies' website



Reading have also got a new away kit and 3rd kit... but they shouldn't have bothered. Why? A strange by-law says that Reading don't ever have to wear an away kit as they are 'the royal team'. Preston also share the no-away-kit-needed ruling as they won the first league title or something. There you have it. Everyday's a school day with Who Ate All The Pies!

 

[Uncle Buck]

Preston North End (because they were the first Football League champions) and Reading (because they play in the Royal County of Berkshire)

 

[hans kraay fan club]

So, given that one plays in blue and white, and the other in white with blue trim, what happens when they play each other, and they both try to invoke the rule?

 

[NMH]

So, given that one plays in blue and white, and the other in white with blue trim, what happens when they play each other, and they both try to invoke the rule?

They spend the whole match exchanging shirts?

 

[Frutos]

So, given that one plays in blue and white, and the other in white with blue trim, what happens when they play each other, and they both try to invoke the rule?

They probably toss a coin or something.

 

[BIRCHYBOY27]

Apparently it notts county

 

[Dave the OAP]

Notts county as the founding member of the football league

 

[readingstockport]

I thought this was an urban myth?

 

[Statto]

I think Notts county is the likely answer, as they are the oldest profesional football club in the world I believe.

 

[Stinkers Bridge]

I think the answer is Notts County, because they borrowed Juventus's shirts when they played the first ever game against Preston North End on Royal Berkshire playing fields in Reading once.

I think.

 

[Lankyseagull]

So is that the real reason we played Reading at the Goldstone in the early nineties wearing our fetching "Chewit wrapper" away kit? And I'd heard the official reason was that Reading had forgotton to bring their away kit and refused to wear ours when the ref asked them to change!

All makes sense now......

 

[maffew]

thought it was Reading

 

[Lady Whistledown]

So is that the real reason we played Reading at the Goldstone in the early nineties wearing our fetching "Chewit wrapper" away kit? And I'd heard the official reason was that Reading had forgotton to bring their away kit and refused to wear ours when the ref asked them to change!

All makes sense now......

The reason on that particular occasion was because Reading's home strip that season was blue and white hoops, as usual. In a stroke of genius, their away strip was blue and yellow hoops, massively different as you can imagine.

When they turned up at the Goldstone, their retarded kit man realised in horror that the blue in their away kit astonishingly clashed with the blue in our home kit, and the ref, not unfairly, decided they couldn't wear it.

Sponsor issues dictated that we ended up pretty in pink that day.

Same happened with Derby at Withdean a couple of seasons back, they brought the wrong kit and were going to end up wearing ours. However, they had a black training strip with them, & after a quick trip to the Albion shop to get names & numbers printed, hey presto, they played in black.

 

[TonyW]

Stockport County - well it's as good an answer as any to a bleddin' stupid rule

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Answers.com
There is a persistent urban legend that as a "royal" club, Reading have the honour of being allowed to wear their home kit regardless of the opposition and venue. This has no basis in fact, and the legend's origin is unclear.[13]




Therefore, it is rubbish. In any case, can you imagine a modern day football club only bringing out one replica kit per season? Where would the profits come from then?