Superphil
Dismember
Am I alone in thinking that this shirt, plain blue ffs, was a total betrayal of the classic blue and white stripes (which we would have worn alone in the old Division One for our entire 3 year residence, from my addled and rose tinted memory) which Albion had worn throughout the entirety of my years following them (from the early 70's)? From memory, again, the argument fropm the club at the time was along the lines of blue and white stripes are not represenatitive of a top flight club - which was a weak effort at deflecting the fact that the advirtising stood out better on a plain colour.
Humph....
hhmm,, we started the 70s in a blue shirt with white sleeves for the home kit, then went to all white in 70-71 before reverting back to the stripes for 2 seasons, then another season in all white (74-75). Then, from 1980 we had 7 years without the stripes, including our time in the top flight. Not playing in the stripes didn't do us too much harm really.