Been away for a long weekend & have been thinking about the Thread a fair bit & how Mushy has been getting on... :lol:
Mushy, you da Man Mate, fabulous research & huge appreciation for taking the time out to go down the Library & putting this all together...
This is truly excellent findings from a Supporter & you should be proud of yourself, your now legitimately part of the Clubs History, or at least part of the piecing together of it..
The Liverpool thing is truly weird though don't we think ??
They wore the Salmon Pink that we initially thought we wore & we wore the Blue which they had as their first ever Kit albeit a few Years earlier, how ironic that is ??
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I'm still going with an earlier assumption i had that we ( including TI ) wore a variety of Colours during the period of 1895 - 1904 including Dark Blue, Light Blue, White, the " Union Jack " Shirt however that may have been & possibly Salmon/Orange/Pink ( Ted F's Grandad ) or possibly not..
Who knows, the well established Liverpool Team of that era ( 1900/1901 League Champions ) may have well felt sorry for us as we were in our Infancy & first Year as a Club that Year & left us their Salmon Pink Kit, as happened in that time frame & that's what Mr Fenton's Grandad can recall, a Game or two ( or more ) in a change if not worn every week, Salmon/Orange/Pink Shirt ??
Certainly not a certainty but shouldn't be ruled out either.
Since this all started a couple of Years back, i have done a bit of research on this whole thing ( old Shirts from a variety of Teams ) including Liverpool & haven't seen any reference at all to Salmon with them, Everton but not Liverpool...
I'm not at all saying that the Newspaper got the Shirts & Teams the wrong way round, of course i'm not & i'm not stating that we did wear the Salmon at any time but from what i've learnt about how things were in that era & how we've learnt how it's so hard to establish the actual facts of things & lack of in other areas, i just wouldn't rule certain things out entirely, that's all..
However, it's now an absolute fact thanks to Mr Mushy that the Blue was our primary Colour for the Seasons in question, between the Years of 1900 - 1903 & for that we all thank you Mate..