Talk:Ken Aston

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It´s to debate, if Ken Aston was really the very first one to wear a black referee uniform with a white rim. As a matter of fact, referees always wore black, as the colour of dignity, but it was Mr. Aston for sure to be one of the first to change from the "traditional" suit jacket with a white shirt underneath to a black jersey with a white collar. In the early days of football referees wore a suit with a white shirt and a tie (see those photographs from the years from 1890 until the 1920ies). In the 1930ies the referees had changed to shorts and dropped the tie already. A very good picture to document that is the handshake between the Austrian and Czech captain in the Austria vs. Czechoslovakia match from 1933.