Liverpool are looking forward to a bright future, but their new third strip is very much a nod to the past.
The Reds today unveiled their brand new third kit for the 2011/12 season, featuring an eye-catching white, blue and black design.
The inclusion of blue - 'cyan', say kit-makers Adidas - on the shirt will raise one or two eyebrows across Merseyside, but Adidas have revealed that the colour scheme is in tribute to the first-ever strip worn by the club following its formation in 1892.
That strip was a Blackburn Rovers-esque, blue-and-white halved design, which Liverpool wore for four seasons before switching to their iconic red uniform in 1896.
Liverpool have worn red ever since, with the famous Liver Bird being added to the strip for the 1950s before Bill Shankly initiated the switch to all-red more than a decade later. Shankly's famous words to defender Ron Yeats as he modelled the all-red strip for the first time were "Christ, son, you look about ten feet tall."
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