It’s a personal thing.

Maybe it’s my age, maybe I just don’t like change. I have an image of how things should be and it irks me when they aren’t. I’m like that with football kits. I’m a great believer in heritage and tradition. To me a club’s first kit is iconic. Not something to be unduly messed with. To be worn wherever possible. It therefore irritates me when a club unnecessarily plays in a change strip. I just don’t like it and I would even go so far as to suggest it’s disrespectful to their own supporters who’ve travelled all the way to an away game. Some clubs do it randomly. We do it all the time.

Ok, I know. It’s all about money. We, for some reason I just can’t fathom, have different shirt sponsors so never play in our first kit when away from home. It’s been going on for nearly ten years. I don’t agree with it.

Our first kit is great. In contrast our change strips have generally been a right ragbag of meaningless colours and designs. How magnificent it would be to be able watch the Millers play away in red and white again. I do believe there would be a benefit in playing in our first kit.

Undoubtedly, that would mean the commercial department having to do some work and find one big shirt sponsor instead of two smaller sponsors. That may mean a slight shortfall in revenue. Maybe not. Whatever, it is a sacrifice I feel would be worth making.

Rant over.

”Come on you Reds!” at Brum today.