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Posted on: Wed 28 Jul 2010

As the world's oldest league club, NottsCounty has obviously had an effect on some of the game's younger denizens. Juventus have often been cited as owing their club kit to the Magpies, but just how did the Notts kit originate itself?

Why do Juventus play in the same colours as Notts County?

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In 1899, Juventus played in pink shirts but continual washing faded the colour so much that in 1903 they sought to replace them.

The club asked one of their team members, Englishman John Savage, if he had any contacts in England who could supply new shirts in a colour that would better withstand the elements.

By coincidence, his friend back home lived in Nottingham, and being a NottsCounty supporter, shipped out the black and white striped shirts to Turin.

Juve have worn the shirts ever since, considering the colours to be aggressive and powerful.

An example of how Notts helped to shape one of the world's biggest clubs, and proof of this is that the Juventus kit is instantly recognisable the world over.

So where did the Notts kit actually stem from?

With a nickname like the Magpies, it is little wonder that NottsCounty play in black and white stripes, but the club colours started life a little differently.

Back in the late 1800's, NottsCounty experimented with a number of different shirt styles. The original black and amber horizontal hoops were replaced by a 'chocolate and blue combination', something that can't have been too easy on the eye!

From here the club adopted the colours that would later become their trademark black and white stripes, but these were abandoned in the early 1920's for a white shirt with a single black chevron.

After reverting to stripes, the club went further back to wear once more the chocolate and blue halves, thankfully discarded after a short number of games.

During the Second World War Notts revealed another design, this time one of broad horizontal stripes. With the resumption of the Football League in the 1946/47 season, Notts wore a plain white shirt with black cuffs.

Variations on the black and white stripes and plain white shirts interchanged during the fifties and sixties, with the club seeming to settle on the former design.

On this the club has remained mostly faithful, though there have been a number of variations on the style. The late seventies and early eighties saw the club adopt a shirt with three thick black stripes, subsequently replaced by a 'pinstripe' number. The introduction of the 'barcode kit' in the early nineties drew a very tepid reception, with the club once more reverting to simple black and white stripes, though a yellow trim has on occasion adorned the shoulders of the kit.

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