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Welcome to the TRUE COLOURS football kit design and history website. There are plenty of future TRUE COLOURS plans in the pipeline – keep visiting the site to find out the news first.

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The highly acclaimed TRUE COLOURS series of books illustrate the football kit history since 1980 of England’s biggest clubs. Every home shirt, away shirt and third shirt is reproduced in painstaking detail and is accompanied by text explaining when it was worn, who wore it and important matches in which it featured.

true-colours-cover.jpgVolume 1 includes: ARSENAL, ASTON VILLA, BIRMINGHAM CITY, BLACKBURN ROVERS, BOLTON WANDERERS,CHARLTON ATHLETIC, CHELSEA, EVERTON, FULHAM, LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER CITY, MANCHESTER UNITED, MIDDLESBOROUGH, NEWCASTLE, PORTSMOUTH, SUNDERLAND, TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR, WEST BROMWICH ALBION, WEST HAM UNITED and WIGAN ATHLETIC.

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Volume 2 includes: COVENTRY CITY, CRYSTAL PALACE, DERBY COUNTY, IPSWICH TOWN, LEEDS UNITED, LEICESTER CITY, NORWICH CITY, NOTTINGHAM FOREST, READING, SHEFFIELD UNITED, SOUTHAMPTON, STOKE CITY, WATFORD, WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS along with the kits of the ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, NORTHERN IRELAND, REPUBLIC OF IRELAND and WALES national sides.

As well as reproducing extracts from the TRUE COLOURS books, this site will also feature exclusive articles about the fascinating world of football shirts history.

There are also regular updates to the kits included in the two volumes of TRUE COLOURS including omissions and corrections.

Since volume 1 was published in 2005 there has been a great amount of interest in the subject of football kit history with several new sites appearing, but the TRUE COLOURS series of books is the only archive of football kit history that also includes all away and third kits in fine detail. It is also the only kit archive to be officially approved by all the clubs, sportswear manufacturers and sponsors featured.

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