Manchester City Football Club Tartan

[cessna152towser]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...tland-14253790
Manchester City become the first English soccer club to have their own tartan.

The birthplace of a Hibernian and Manchester City football legend has now become the birthplace for the official tartan for the English side.

City are the first club south of the Border to have their own tartan designed and registered.

It was inspired by City's connection with Selkirk-born Bobby Johnstone. Tartan goods are to put on sale by the club in the next few weeks.

In the 1950s, Johnstone left Easter Road for Maine Road.

Bobby Johnstone died ten years ago in Selkirk, but the connection has continued.

Manchester City's youth team played Selkirk in a match to celebrate the opening of the Bobby Johnstone pavilion at Yarrow Park.

Selkirk staged a Burns supper for City in Manchester with guests including a bemused City manager Roberto Mancini.

The tartan was designed and made in Selkirk.

Tartan designer Gerald Riley has said he is "delighted" with the response to his creation.

[spglenn]

While this is kinda of cool that the English Football teams now have one of their number with a tartan there can be only one for me.

That being said as Shankley and Dalglish are both Scots where is hope for a Liverpool one I hope :-)

[OC Richard]

Very interesting!

I have seen a number of Highland Dancing tartans which would be perfect, consisting only of azure and white.