It was as recently as 2018 that Bayern München acceded to supporters’ demands and pledged that from that moment forth, home kits would feature only the club’s traditional red-and-white colours. The issue for fans was the intermittent appearance of a rogue hue: blue. Indeed, in 2014/15 the team looked like a German version of Crystal Palace (Kristallpalast?) in their blue-and-red stripes.
However, there was no mistaking the identity of the team in all-red contesting a second straight Champions League final when Bayern met their Der Klassiker foes Borussia Dortmund in 2013. That said, those fond of the vintage, lustrous yellow sported by Dortmund – worn for the 1997 final – might have wondered about the team’s more sober yellow-and-black stripes. But they were justified, in that they are the traditional colours of a club from the predominantly working-class Ruhr district: yellow in honour of the overalls worn by the area’s steel workers; coal black to recognise the region’s miners.
It was as recently as 2018 that Bayern München acceded to supporters’ demands and pledged that from that moment forth, home kits would feature only the club’s traditional red-and-white colours. The issue for fans was the intermittent appearance of a rogue hue: blue. Indeed, in 2014/15 the team looked like a German version of Crystal Palace (Kristallpalast?) in their blue-and-red stripes.
However, there was no mistaking the identity of the team in all-red contesting a second straight Champions League final when Bayern met their Der Klassiker foes Borussia Dortmund in 2013. That said, those fond of the vintage, lustrous yellow sported by Dortmund – worn for the 1997 final – might have wondered about the team’s more sober yellow-and-black stripes. But they were justified, in that they are the traditional colours of a club from the predominantly working-class Ruhr district: yellow in honour of the overalls worn by the area’s steel workers; coal black to recognise the region’s miners.
On the Bayern shirt worn for the final, the time and place of the first all-German European Cup final was sandwiched between the adidas and club logos: 25 May, Wembley Stadium. That was a mere 371 days after the most agonising of finals finished in defeat by Chelsea – in, of all places, Bayern’s own stadium.
Still, Bayern managed to find comprehensive closure in the best possible way. Although Dortmund’s İlkay Gündoğan equalised from the spot eight minutes after Mario Mandžukić had opened the scoring for Die Roten on the hour mark, Arjen Robben – whose extra-time penalty was saved by Petr Čech in the 2012 final – had the bit between his teeth. The Dutchman was able to burst between two defenders before improvising to squeeze the ball past goalkeeper Roman Weidenfeller with one minute remaining.
Bayern would wear identical colours to claim their sixth European crown in 2020; clearly all red is all right.
It was as recently as 2018 that Bayern München acceded to supporters’ demands and pledged that from that moment forth, home kits would feature only the club’s traditional red-and-white colours. The issue for fans was the intermittent appearance of a rogue hue: blue. Indeed, in 2014/15 the team looked like a German version of Crystal Palace (Kristallpalast?) in their blue-and-red stripes.
However, there was no mistaking the identity of the team in all-red contesting a second straight Champions League final when Bayern met their Der Klassiker foes Borussia Dortmund in 2013. That said, those fond of the vintage, lustrous yellow sported by Dortmund – worn for the 1997 final – might have wondered about the team’s more sober yellow-and-black stripes. But they were justified, in that they are the traditional colours of a club from the predominantly working-class Ruhr district: yellow in honour of the overalls worn by the area’s steel workers; coal black to recognise the region’s miners.
It was as recently as 2018 that Bayern München acceded to supporters’ demands and pledged that from that moment forth, home kits would feature only the club’s traditional red-and-white colours. The issue for fans was the intermittent appearance of a rogue hue: blue. Indeed, in 2014/15 the team looked like a German version of Crystal Palace (Kristallpalast?) in their blue-and-red stripes.
However, there was no mistaking the identity of the team in all-red contesting a second straight Champions League final when Bayern met their Der Klassiker foes Borussia Dortmund in 2013. That said, those fond of the vintage, lustrous yellow sported by Dortmund – worn for the 1997 final – might have wondered about the team’s more sober yellow-and-black stripes. But they were justified, in that they are the traditional colours of a club from the predominantly working-class Ruhr district: yellow in honour of the overalls worn by the area’s steel workers; coal black to recognise the region’s miners.
It was as recently as 2018 that Bayern München acceded to supporters’ demands and pledged that from that moment forth, home kits would feature only the club’s traditional red-and-white colours. The issue for fans was the intermittent appearance of a rogue hue: blue. Indeed, in 2014/15 the team looked like a German version of Crystal Palace (Kristallpalast?) in their blue-and-red stripes.
However, there was no mistaking the identity of the team in all-red contesting a second straight Champions League final when Bayern met their Der Klassiker foes Borussia Dortmund in 2013. That said, those fond of the vintage, lustrous yellow sported by Dortmund – worn for the 1997 final – might have wondered about the team’s more sober yellow-and-black stripes. But they were justified, in that they are the traditional colours of a club from the predominantly working-class Ruhr district: yellow in honour of the overalls worn by the area’s steel workers; coal black to recognise the region’s miners.
On the Bayern shirt worn for the final, the time and place of the first all-German European Cup final was sandwiched between the adidas and club logos: 25 May, Wembley Stadium. That was a mere 371 days after the most agonising of finals finished in defeat by Chelsea – in, of all places, Bayern’s own stadium.
Still, Bayern managed to find comprehensive closure in the best possible way. Although Dortmund’s İlkay Gündoğan equalised from the spot eight minutes after Mario Mandžukić had opened the scoring for Die Roten on the hour mark, Arjen Robben – whose extra-time penalty was saved by Petr Čech in the 2012 final – had the bit between his teeth. The Dutchman was able to burst between two defenders before improvising to squeeze the ball past goalkeeper Roman Weidenfeller with one minute remaining.
Bayern would wear identical colours to claim their sixth European crown in 2020; clearly all red is all right.
It was as recently as 2018 that Bayern München acceded to supporters’ demands and pledged that from that moment forth, home kits would feature only the club’s traditional red-and-white colours. The issue for fans was the intermittent appearance of a rogue hue: blue. Indeed, in 2014/15 the team looked like a German version of Crystal Palace (Kristallpalast?) in their blue-and-red stripes.
However, there was no mistaking the identity of the team in all-red contesting a second straight Champions League final when Bayern met their Der Klassiker foes Borussia Dortmund in 2013. That said, those fond of the vintage, lustrous yellow sported by Dortmund – worn for the 1997 final – might have wondered about the team’s more sober yellow-and-black stripes. But they were justified, in that they are the traditional colours of a club from the predominantly working-class Ruhr district: yellow in honour of the overalls worn by the area’s steel workers; coal black to recognise the region’s miners.
