Colour Blindness

[Oxfordfox83]

12 hours ago, urban.spaceman said:

Can’t read this, but assume you’re on our side. Cheers urban!

[The_77]

Half this thread when Plymouth have to wear a change kit at Morecambe. 

 

Edited 7 October 2021 by The_77

[Heskey2011]

13 hours ago, tom27111 said:

Thank god Tigers play in red and white.

 

I hate the fact that Ireland and Wales have played in the same colour kits for over a century 

 

Look, joking aside, I get that it's a problem for colour blind people, but is this really necessary?

 

Just more political correctness. 

 

I don't intend to offend some of you who have colour blindness, but it's been like this forever. 

You say just more political correctness like it's a bad thing?

How does it affect you if you're not colourblind.  Not at all? or are you complaining about all of the other people complaining about stuff that doesn't effect you. Coz if you were that would be pretty silly.

[Arkie Bennett]

I'm red deficient. It affects my ability to see a difference between red and other dark colours, especially at speed, especially at distance, and especially if the visible area of the colour is small. I can't see a difference between the reds and the brown at snooker; my friends used to send the brown into the reds to gain points from me, tremendous fun for them at my expense.

Colourblindness has always been regarded as a joke by people who don't understand it. Watching football, I struggle with kit clashes that people with full colour vision don't. It doesn't happen with Leicester matches because there's usually blue involved one way or another, yet Man City's various alternative kits were a regular problem until they made positive changes in the last couple of years.

I've done some work with colourblindawareness.org, and this change for the rugby world cup is huge progress for the group that campaigns for recognition of the condition and works to reduce the prejudice and misunderstandings that surround it, in schools, workplaces and sport.

Colourblindness isn't regarded as a disability under the Equality Act, but it baffles me that anyone would complain about improvements that make a sport more inclusive to a significant number of spectators.

Edited 7 October 2021 by Arkie Bennett

[dynamark]

Snooker back in the day!!! .The pink ball is the one next to the white .

[UpTheLeagueFox]

I was shocked when diagnosed with colour blindness, it came like a bolt from the green.

[Arkie Bennett]

1 minute ago, UpTheLeagueFox said:

I was shocked when diagnosed with colour blindness, it came like a bolt from the green.

Brilliant. Did you make that up all by yourself?

[String fellow]

11 minutes ago, dynamark said:

Snooker back in the day!!! .The pink ball is the one next to the white .

'... and for those of you who are watching in black and white, the pink is next to the green.' That was Ted Lowe's famous gaffe.

[danny.]

1 hour ago, Arkie Bennett said:

I'm red deficient. It affects my ability to see a difference between red and other dark colours, especially at speed, especially at distance, and especially if the visible area of the colour is small. I can't see a difference between the reds and the brown at snooker; my friends used to send the brown into the reds to gain points from me, tremendous fun for them at my expense.

Colourblindness has always been regarded as a joke by people who don't understand it. Watching football, I struggle with kit clashes that people with full colour vision don't. It doesn't happen with Leicester matches because there's usually blue involved one way or another, yet Man City's various alternative kits were a regular problem until they made positive changes in the last couple of years.

I've done some work with colourblindawareness.org, and this change for the rugby world cup is huge progress for the group that campaigns for recognition of the condition and works to reduce the prejudice and misunderstandings that surround it, in schools, workplaces and sport.

Colourblindness isn't regarded as a disability under the Equality Act, but it baffles me that anyone would complain about improvements that make a sport more inclusive to a significant number of spectators.

 

[baldeagle]

3 hours ago, floz said:

I am colour blind and several times have had the enjoyment of a game spoiled by easily avoidable kit clashes. Manu v Liverpool was much complained about last year. If you follow colour blind org on Twitter you will see how many people are affected.

 

I don't think snooker should be banned, but the brown ball shouldn't be allowed to leave its spot. 🟤

Yeah I have the snooker ball problem 

[Duncan_K]

Everyone saying 'this has never been an issue before', 'why hasn't this come up before' etc. 

It's only relatively recently that competitions stopped insisting on things like one team in light shorts and one team in dark shorts to help with those watching on black and white TVs. Traditional kit designs also helped with patterns like stripes, hoops etc 

 

So it really is quite a modern issue and quite right that sports start to make very minor changes that could actually appeal to traditionalists too. 

[Golden Fox]

There was also a good article on this at the start of the season https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/57880378 which shows this isn't a new issue and rugby union bringing in rules to address it isn't the first attempt to address this and it has already come into football (although the fact this rule is actually to prevent the problem of having players interfering with the technology of superimposing adverts onto green screens (ie. grass) is curiously left out...).

 

In fact, (geek mode), in the early days of sports, it was much easier to tell which side was which in rugby as they were on different sides of the ball facing different directions most the time compared to football where players were marking each other and were mixed together, so football teams wearing hooped shirts got very confusing, so they stopped doing it, while it wasn't a big issue for rugby teams... which is still a big factor in the look of the 2 sports to this day.

 

There is a simple answer: US sports have for years had a simple rule of the home team wearing colour & the away team wearing white, so this could be a very good option for a number of reasons:

1) it should prevent any of these colour blind match-ups

2) it would mean we never have to play in our awful black/pink kit again

3) we wouldn't need to try and flog 3 new kits every year! (although the trade off is usually to have a 3rd kit or even a 4th kit as an alternative home jersey)

4) it would mean Spurs and Derby would have to change their home kits 

 

Worth it for no 4 alone!

[Houdini Logic]

To me, this thread is what forums are really about.

This is something that had never even crossed my mind until today. It's insightful to read peoples experiences and eye-opening to see just how common this issue is. I imagine some of the initial posters are probably a bit embarrassed in hindsight but they were likely just naive to the subject, so thank you to all those who have contributed and been candid about this. 

 

I certainly hope these changes are brought into football ASAP

[Raj]

I'm the MOST colourblind person at our workplace....and it's a printing place!

Ive been in Print over 30 years!!

As long as I know which way one team is kicking  kicking the ball I'm relatively okay.

It's a bonus if I recognise a few players too!!!

My mates would always feck me off playing snooker as I'd ask them which ball was red and which green/brown, the w@nkers would tell me wrong and then try and get a foul when I hit the wrong ball!!!

 

I'd really struggle if ManU played Plymouth!!!🤣🤣🤣

Edited 7 October 2021 by Raj

[HybridFox]

Really interesting points and a real eye opener given my previous lack of knowledge on the condition. 

 

I honestly can't see why we can't make changes to make the sport more accessible. It really has no impact on the rest of us and would enable others to have the same experience.

 

If it's "political correctness" (which it's not), you are welcome not to go. Just saying 

Edited 7 October 2021 by TK95

[Guest worth_the_wait]

On 07/10/2021 at 10:20, Daggers said:

That phrase doesn't belong anywhere. Ever.

 

Not sure about that.

 

When someone deemed that blackboards should be called chalkboards, I thought that was a pretty good example of "political correctness".

 

If it's a board, and it's black, it's a blackboard.  

If it's a board, and it's white, it's a whiteboard.

 

There are no more racial overtones in that, than in a Zebra Crossing or Newcastle United's shirts.

[MalletFox]

On 06/10/2021 at 23:21, urban.spaceman said:

Oh Gaaawd! These bring back tragic memories! I’m colour blind and genuinely can’t see a thing in that circle …. It’s not the one that says “**** the colourblind” is it?? 
 

PS, I’m being deadly serious, I’m colour blind and don’t see a thing in there 🤣🤣🤣

[MalletFox]

Funny story for ya’ll …

 

When I was in Primary School I drew and coloured a tree in with a green trunk and brown leaves … at the time we also had a pet dog, I drew her and coloured her in green! Tragic!

 

Even more tragic … the colours were actually written on the pencils. 🥸

[MrsJohnMurphy]

Its rugby, is it going to make that much difference?

 

[Daggers]

3 hours ago, worth_the_wait said:

Not sure about that.

 

When someone deemed that blackboards should be called chalkboards, I thought that was a pretty good example of "political correctness".

 

If it's a board, and it's black, it's a blackboard.  

If it's a board, and it's white, it's a whiteboard.

 

There are no more racial overtones in that, than in a Zebra Crossing or Newcastle United's shirts.

My commiserations on your lonely childhood. 

[Strokes]

4 hours ago, MalletFox said:

Oh Gaaawd! These bring back tragic memories! I’m colour blind and genuinely can’t see a thing in that circle …. It’s not the one that says “**** the colourblind” is it?? 
 

PS, I’m being deadly serious, I’m colour blind and don’t see a thing in there 🤣🤣🤣

No mate.

It says PUCK THE COLOR BUND, doesn’t really make much sense.

[foxinsocks]

6 hours ago, Strokes said:

No mate.

It says PUCK THE COLOR BUND, doesn’t really make much sense.

It's very clever.    It says a different message for each condition.  This particular message suggests that tour eyes are working but your brain is not jumping to the right conclusions.

[phoneticerror]

On 06/10/2021 at 23:21, urban.spaceman said:

What a nice circle. Love all those shades of green.

[st albans fox]

1 hour ago, phoneticerror said:

What a nice circle. Love all those shades of green.

U can tell that they’re all green ………….