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Just read that Barcelona are changing their strip to hoops. I hope it's a wind up but it's in the daily mail:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2857204/Barcelona-change-home-shirt-hoops-time-illustrious-115-year-history.html

I cannot imagine why they would want to change from their iconic striped tops.

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That's almost as bad as Real Madrid changing their crest to appease Abu Dhabi bankers. And at least Real have cynical financial reasons for shitting on their traditions. What's the point of this?

Fashion?

Who knows, football is losing it's soul to money more and more.

This seems utterly pointless to me.

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Barca fans hate the hoops!

78% say NO!

Barcelona fans outraged as 78 per cent say they DO NOT want club to replace famous stripes on club shirt with hoops

  • Barcelona will have a hooped shirt next season for the first time
  • The Catalans have worn striped shirts for the majority of their history
  • Spanish giants have also opted for halved home jerseys on occasion
  • Fans have voiced their displeasure at the proposed break with tradition

By HAMISH MACKAY FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 11:14, 3 December 2014 | UPDATED: 15:15, 3 December 2014

Barcelona fans have voiced their displeasure with the club after it was revealed their kit for next season will carry hoops, not stripes.

In the club's 115 year history they have never had a hooped kit, and supporters of the Catalan club do not want to break with that tradition now.

In a poll in Spanish newspaper Sport, 78 per cent of fans said they did not like the kit and did not want it to be introduced next season.

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Mundo Deportivo reveal Barcelona fans are not happy about the proposed change to a hooped kit

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Spanish paper Sport, who broke the story on Tuesday, say 78 per cent of fans do not like the kit

Mundo Deportivo carried out a similar exercise among their readers, with an even more emphatic response. Eight out of 10 supporters rejected the idea of moving to a kit with horizontal stripes.

Barcelona's first ever jersey in 1899 was half red, half blue. Over time this design evolved into vertical stripes, and the club have alternated between the two ever since.

But now the club intend to have a hooped kit for the 2015-16 season, although it is believed the away kit would not bear the new design.

Read more: http://www.dailymail...l#ixzz3Kqtw2Jzq

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