Season 1910/11
original illustrations of the kits worn during the season
Home Kit
Variant
Home Kit 2
Variant
Change Kit
Variant
Change kit with Players' Union armband
Change variant with Players' Union armband
Home kit
Home kit with undershirt
Home kit with Players' Union armband
Home kit with Union armband & undershirt
Change Kit
Change kit with undershirt
Change Kit 2
Change kit with Union armband & undershirt
The Season in brief
United were rarely out of the top three, and led the table for much of the season. On the final day the title race was between leaders Aston Villa, United and Sunderland, who met at Old Trafford. Billy Meredith was in exceptional form that afternoon, creating three of United's goals as the side came back from losing an early goal to win 5-1. Villa lost 3-1 at Anfield, and United were champions again!
After the club posted a loss of £18,000 for 1909/10, the impact of the club's move to Old Trafford, several of the fringe playershad were sold in the autumn of 1910. A special F.A. Commission investigating the club's purchase of Old Trafford ordered United to renegotiate the purchase on less favourable terms, and also to reduce JH Davies' influence by broadening the share ownership through a new shares issue.
Colours for the home kit remained unchanged although it appears a new style high collared shirt was also worn alongside the familiar rounded collar shirt. The club had a new change kit, worn for the first time in the public practice games at Old Trafford in August, which we know from a match report in the 'Manchester Evening News' featured blue and white striped shirts. The new change kit was worn in the opening game of the season at Woolwich Arsenal, where the majority of United's players also wore the banned Players' Union arm band on their left arm. They removed the arm band during the interval after a request by telegraph from the Players' Union Secretary, Syd Owen. We have included the Union armband on both the home and change goalkeeper kits as we are not sure which kit was worn at Highbury. The change kit was also worn in the FA Cup tie against Aston Villa at Old Trafford.
The goalkeeper home and change kits appear to have been unchanged too, with Harry Moger again frequently wearing a collared undershirt beneath his jersey
Andrew Shortman sent us the following link to a fascinating British Movietone film of United's visit to West Ham in the FA Cup on February 25th 1911.