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Why Wales will be forced to wear their away kit AGAIN against Russia - the Euro 2016 strip changes explained

17 JUN 2016



BY ADAM JONES

Chris Coleman's side wore their charcoal and lime-green coloured strip against England and will be told by Uefa they have to do the same again versus Russians



The decision to make Wales wear their away kit on Thursday against England was met by some confusion from supporters across social media.

White doesn't clash with red - so why should Wales have been forced to wear their away kit?

It was a question that a lot of people were asking before and during the match on Thursday.


Well it wasn't down to requirements to wear the away kit in the tournament or anything like that, which some had suggested.

It was actually down to the socks on the two sides' home kits.

England's current home kit rather bafflingly includes red socks with their predominantly white shirts and shorts.

Of course, Wales' home kit is traditionally completely red, including the socks, so there was a clash.

Ashley Williams, Gareth Bale and Aaron Ramsey model the Wales away kit for Euro 2016
UEFA were worried that this colour clash would cause an issue, and so ruled that the team drawn as the away side in the match should be forced to wear their away kit.

Before the tournament, all of the qualifying teams were seeded and drawn out in to their separate groups - with Wales in the third seeding group out of four.

The way Euro 2016 is scheduled means that teams of that seed are considered as the away side in both the second and third games of the group - so that's why Wales wore their change strip against England.

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I think uefa are more worried that adidas will withdraw their support if they aren't allowed to influence what kits are being worn. The more adidas away kits that are worn the more shirts will be seen and the more shirts will be sold.

Didn't Russia wear red socks against England

Didn't Russia wear red socks against England

White

So why didn't we wear white socks ?

So why didn't we wear white socks ?

Probably because we haven't got white socks in our kits

Friggin' nonsense.

We could have worn black socks.

UEFA are just bollox!

That away kit is disgustingly bad, partly why everyone is pis*ed off to see them play in the away top

So why didn't we wear white socks ?

Probably because we haven't got white socks in our kits

It's not like we didn't know this was going to happen

The real question is why have the English all of a sudden decided to wear red socks. They've never before and we should have pointed that out to UEFA. It's not as if they don't know that England play in white

The real question is why have the English all of a sudden decided to wear red socks. They've never before and we should have pointed that out to UEFA. It's not as if they don't know that England play in white

They will probably say because of the red in there St George flag don't forget they don't use the union jacks anymore.still can't believe we wore black all we had to do was change our socks .couple of seasons ago liverpool went to norwich and wore a black kit I really couldn't understand why they did it there was no colour clash I'm thinking is it a contract thing you should only wear a second colour kit in my opinion if there is a colour clash I