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RETRO LATICS
OUR LATEST LOOK AT RETRO LATICS KITS TAKES US TO THE ONE
USED FOR A FAMOUS CUP GIANT-KILLING…
Whilst Latics have sported
multiple memorable kits
since the turn of the century,
several of the home shirts
from the early 2000s could
have turned into a blue haze
for some.
This may be down to the
fact that the home kit only
saw slight changes from one
year to the next across a few
seasons.
Despite their similar look,
though, all of the designs are
worth casting your mind back
to, as are some of the results
from the campaigns.
Ahead of the 2004-05 season,
Latics saw a switch in kit
maker, though the design of
the home shirt did not see
wholesales changes.
Since 2000, four seasons’
shirts had been designed
and manufactured by Sparta,
which was replaced by in ’04
by Carlotti, beginning its own
four-year stint.
On the front of the shirt for
the season which began with
Brian Talbot at the helm was
formerly Manchester-based
car dealership Horners Motor
Group, which had been in
position on the kit since the
year before.
The design itself for the 2004-
05 season was a mostly blue
design which sported a white
hooped collar, a change from
two consecutive seasons of
V-neck collars, and a white trim
down either side of the shirt.
The shorts were also all
blue, with the white trim
from the shirt continuing
down the outside of each
leg. Completely white socks
completed look for that
season’s home kit design.
On 7 August 2004, the newlyrenamed
Football League
One season began with
Latics travelling to eventual
champions Luton, where a Will
Haining header put the visitors
ahead only for goals from Steve
Howard and Paul Underwood to
the result around.
A first win for Talbot’s side
came as a brace from David
Eyres and goals from Dean
Holden, Rodney Jack and
Adam Griffin overturned an
early two-goal deficit against
Walsall at Boundary Park, the
game finishing 5-3.
Latics then went unbeaten
in four matches, going on to
host Tottenham Hotspur in the
League Cup, which turned out
to be one defeat in a run of
nine league and cup matches
without victory.
Fortunes turned as Barnsley,
Bradford City, Hartlepool,
Leyton Orient, Chesterfield
and Huddersfield Town were
all downed in a seven-match
winning run across league and
cup.
Victory in the FA Cup against
Leyton Orient was rewarded
with a Third Round tie at home
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