Duncan Barkes
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
They've played their FA Cup games all in white.
That's right.
As part of their anti-knife campaign.
I mean, you know, explain and discuss.
But they reckon that white kit has brought them bad luck.
Things come and go, don't they?
I read also, doing a little bit of research, I stumbled on one of those things that I know you like.
Excuse me, this flu won't go away.
Sorry to hear that.
When they were founded, two of their original players were from Nottingham Forest, and one of them brought with him as a gift...
Nottingham Forest's shirts and the players who were then just about to become Woolwich Arsenal liked the look of them.
And the rest is history.
I don't know where the white sleeves came from, but that's the red shirts.
Yes, I've got the book in front of me, the football yearbook.
It's a huge thing.
Not really worth it.
But it does tell me that their original name, before they were the Woolwich Arsenal, because of their shirts, they were called the Woolwich Reds.