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an eye watering blue flecked design

But dig a little deeper into the history books and you'll find the Reds actually started life in green and gold jerseys.They wore the brightly coloured shirts in their Newton Heath days, dating back to their beginnings in 1878, and players didn't pull on red tops until 1902.Sir Alex Ferguson's side of 1992 1993 acknowledged the club's past by wearing green and gold third kits and the colours were adopted by the anti Glazer movement.The club mainly stuck to the traditional red kit until 1968 when they played the European Cup final in an all blue strip. It proved a good omen, though, with the club beating Benfica 4 1.In the early 1980s United secured a sponsorship deal with Sharp and, as success began to flow, the shirts began to get more colourful although not all proved popular.In 1990, Adidas brought out a new United away shirt that featured an eye watering blue flecked design. Critics likened it to wallpaper.The most controversial kit was the 1995 grey away kit. An