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On this day 04 April
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Arsenal debuts the iconic white-sleeved kit design against Liverpool
1933
After seeing cartoonist Tom Webster wearing a blue pullover with white sleeves, Chelsea chairman Claude Kirby suggests to his manager David Calderhead that Chelsea should start wearing white sleeves. Calderhead rejects the idea, but Tom Webster tells Herbert Chapman the story over a drink at the Royal Victoria Hotel in Sheffield, and Chapman becomes interested in the idea. Webster is asked to sketch the idea, and when he shows Chapman the design it's decided: Arsenal will wear red shirts with white sleeves. Chapman asks the Football League for approval, which is given in February 1933. Arsenal sits on the new design until it's time to meet Liverpool, and the shirt makes its debut on April 4th, 1933. Only twice after 1933 will the home shirt not feature white sleeves: between 1965-1967, and then for the final season at Highbury where Nike reverts back to the original maroon solid colour shirt.

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