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@Danimal5981 wrote:
New? Whatta you mean new? It's literally a return to the old pre-1991 logo. I think it's overhyped. I mean, it's a nice gesture, because there was a huge demand for it among Ajax-fans. If it symbolizes anything, it's that the club is listening to the fans a bit more again.
I'll tell you what I would appreciate more: go back to the pre-war outfit, which is the same as now, except that Ajax would play with black socks not white. Because then (and only then) would Ajax go back to its original Amsterdam roots. And not a lot of teams wear all black socks nowaydays, so it would make them stand out.
Amsterdam city colours (flag and crest) are a red flag (or crest), with three white St. Andrew-crosses sorted vertically on a black vertical banner in the middle. Sometimes, when we play NAC Breda we play in that exact outfit and -to me- it's gorgeous and the way it always ought to be.
Originally, in the first 18 years of its existence, it played in an outfit similar to Sparta Rotterdam, PSV, Cracovia, Sunderland, or Athletic Bilbao: White shirt with red vertical stripes, black shorts and socks. But just a reintroduction of the black colour in whichever form would do for me.
Yes, I meant the new old logo. But I appreciate the thorough elaboration on the colours etc., I wasn't aware of the black and the stripes etc.
I get what you mean with black though. There's something about that. Man Uniteds kit is typically red shirt, white shorts, black socks, as anyone knows. But when opponents wear white shorts, United typically use black shorts in stead to the red shirt. In my opinion that's an improvement, when they do that.
In Formula One, Ferrari mixes the livery red with white for a number of years and then a couple of years with black, which make the cars look mighty dangerous IMHO.
I think the reason Ajax never went back to black after WW2, is that in the 20th century you had the so-called Legendary Four: Ajax, PSV, Feyenoord and Sparta which had never played outside the Ereidivisie since the introduction of professional footbal in the Netherlands; those four had never relegated (until 2002) - out of those four, Ajax was the only one which did not have a red-white-black combination outfit.
