Chelsea to parade new kit at FA Cup Final

[chrismada9 1,948]

We will be wearing the new 2010/11 home kit for the FA Cup Final against Portsmouth at Wembley on May 15.

It is the first time we will sport the new kit in a match, and Cup Final shirts are available to pre-order at www.chelseafc.com/megastore with the shirts also available to buy at the Stamford Bridge megastore from next Thursday, May 6.

Pompey will be in their change colours after we won the toss of a coin, the opposite situation to last season when we were forced to wear yellow in our 2-1 victory against Everton.

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Source:- Official Chelsea Website

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I honestly thought we were going to wear it in the Wigan game.

[cfc-meleady 192]

1 game in the new kit and 1 piece of silver wear, that'll be a pretty good start.

[Morpheus 8]

we should wear the kit that got us here.

[EskWeston 696]

Yeah i am sure it was said somewhere it would be the Wigan game. Not too sure about wearing new kits at the end of the season, like Morpheus said, wear the kit that gets you there..

[Luke 60]

Yeah I agree, wear the kit that got us to the final, next seasons kit is for NEXT season.

[Blueboy 14]

We should write the club a letter, i love the symbolism of us wearing the kit of this season in THIS years FA Cup final. Marks the end of a (hopefully) great season and at the same time that of a new beginning . I almost feel like quoting the bible or some other religious book :tophat:

[DavidEU 2,023]

The rules are that you can wear a different kit for one game per season in FA competitions, and I pressume the club believe the shirt will sell better if they wear it in this game rather than the Wigan one.

Agree with the aboves though.

[Steve 10,227]

We once wore our new kit into a final and i dont think anyone wants to really remember that night.

[HRiver 1,512]

We certainly don't.

[EskWeston 696]

The rules are that you can wear a different kit for one game per season in FA competitions, and I pressume the club believe the shirt will sell better if they wear it in this game rather than the Wigan one.

Agree with the aboves though.

That is obviously the reason why they do it, but would wearing it before the end of the reason really make any difference whatsoever to sales?? I doubt it..

[DavidEU 2,023]

That is obviously the reason why they do it, but would wearing it before the end of the reason really make any difference whatsoever to sales?? I doubt it..

With two more kits being released in the summer, then yes, maybe.

[Term-X 7,891]

That is obviously the reason why they do it, but would wearing it before the end of the reason really make any difference whatsoever to sales?? I doubt it..

it creates the illusion the kit has been out longer.

[Ollie 4,400]

This bit us in the arse before in the UCL Final when we wore the new kit. I agree we should respect the kit that got us there because the 2010/11 kit is for the 2010/11 season.

We'll wear it for the Wigan game anyway i think as the one we wore in the UCL final was also worn against Bolton where we lost the plot and drew. That kit had a disastrous start rofl.

[NattyBlue 44]

Well lets not fuck it up and wear blue socks as well

[Kez 2,727]

We were originally gonna wear it for the Wigan game, I think it's ridiculous we wear a new kit in a final when we should be wearing the kit that gets us there.

[Rambo 1,729]

This was clearly a business move to sell more shirts.

[BlueLion. 21,491]

I can see the club's reasoning. They'll sell more shirts, its simple.

Furthermore I'm glad we're wearing our current kit against Wigan. Every time we've won the next season's kit in the last home match (ie. 07/08 v Bolton, 08/09 v Blackburn - and you could argue 06/07 v Everton), we've failed to win the League.

[NattyBlue 44]

Lol

annoyed that the FA Cup shirt is the new kit though

I'm getting a scarf!