https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/20 ... -have-run/

Coventry City will wear a bespoke kit in the League Two play-off final - not to commemorate a showpiece occasion but because they have run out of their home strip.

The club have exhausted the supply of their sky blue home kit, so will instead wear a specially made blue and white striped jersey against Exeter City at Wembley.

Fans will be able to buy the shirt from the club shop, who found themselves out of stock of 2017-18's popular home shirt.
Dave Boddy, Coventry Chief Executive, said: “With our existing supply exhausted, we have commissioned a special, limited edition one-off shirt for the Play-Off Final.

“The striped kit is one with much history, especially at Wembley, for the Sky Blues.



“We hope it will be very popular with supporters, who will be able to buy the shirt now online at ccfc.clubstore.co.uk.

“This will not be the kit for the 2018/19 season, so we hope it will be a very unique shirt for the club and fans.”

The late change will evoke fond memories for Coventry supporters. Coventry wore stripes at Wembley in the 1987 FA Cup final, enjoying one of their greatest days with a shock victory over Tottenham Hotspur.

This is not the first kit-related story to precede a Wembley final. Arsenal had to ask for permission to wear their usual white shorts in the Carabao Cup final against Manchester City, and avoid wearing the unusual combination of red shirt, shorts and socks.

There was the famous example of Manchester United changing shirts at halftime of 3-1 defeat at Southampton in 1996.

Sir Alex Ferguson blamed United's changed grey kit for a poor first-half showing, claiming his players struggled to see each other as the shirts were difficult to spot in the bright sunshine.

Surprised how honest they've been with that one. I don't think many would have batted an eyelid if they'd just said they were using a limited edition kit for the final.

Well they've run out of normal kit, the club shop has sold out of replica's and now, with their big fan base, they're wearing & selling a limited edition shirt for the play off final........sounds like a great bit of business to me.

Good bit of business sell your kit twice!!

Wish we had somebody at our club dealing with kits like this, maybe then we wouldn’t all be holding our breath waiting for the bod to come with their begging bowl

It looks like very smart business.

They have thousands upon thousands of former supporters who will get on board if off-field issues take a turn for the better and some very talented young players. If they beat Exeter I can imagine them pushing for another promotion.

He’s probably hidden them all in his dome so he can now sell another kit. Fair play up him. If he had shown that initiative here he might still be in a job with us!

Great bit of business.

"...very unique..."

What an absolute prick.

Newportonian wrote:Wish we had somebody at our club dealing with kits like this, maybe then we wouldn’t all be holding our breath waiting for the bod to come with their begging bowl

We did have him, ironically enough when he was here , everyone thought he was an idiot

My recollection is that he was vilfied by this forum. Don't know if justly or otherwise.

Threadbare wrote:My recollection is that he was vilfied by this forum. Don't know if justly or otherwise.

It was justified.