After a two year hiatus Saints are back in their traditional red & white stripes for the 2014/15 season with a kit that has a great design with history to the fore.
Say whatever you want about Saints last two home kits but they were not designs that immediately think of Southampton Football Club, Liverpool yes ! but Saints no !
The stripes are forever linked with us, they can be spotted a mile off and when you see a shirt with a red & white design 100 yards away you know that it could only be the shirt of a handful of clubs, the shirt of 2012/13 was nice, but it was the shirt of the Liverpool team of 1981 not that of Southampton Football Club.
Now the club has announced its new home kit for the 2014/15 season and it could not be more traditionally Saints if it tried, I am of course well known for my love of the stripes and my love of modern football kits that hark back to days of old and this kit has both of that in spades.
The shirt itself is as plain as the red & white stripes could be and has a nice red v neck harking back to the early sixties when Saints wore this design as the won promotion to the top flight for the first time in 65/66 and indeed they wore a shirt like this when they ran out in the first game of the following season our first ever at the highest level in British football.
The shorts are plain black with the only real variation on the theme being the socks, these are of a hooped design, again very early 60's, but instead of white hoops they have black.
Anyway don't take my word for it, The Stripes Are Back ! head for the clubs official website and see the kit for yourself.