Throughout August, we'll be running a series of drawings representing each of the Football Alliance's club colours for the coming season, both their first choice 'home' kits and the alternative strip to avoid colour clashes, in order for the reader to be able to imagine which colours each team might be sporting in any given fixture.
First up, we'll present the sixteen clubs in the Championship and then do the same for the Second Division, beginning the process, alphabetically, with Audenshaw Dynamo, known as such since beginning last season back in the top tier, previously being Audenshaw Athletic, who, historically, were founder members of the old Fourth Division, then the fifth level, of the original national Football Alliance back in 1980-81, finishing that season 14th of 16 teams, but subsequently steadily rising through the divisions until achieving Championship status in 1997-98, at which level they've since spent all but one season (2013-14), mostly in mid- to the lower half of the table, with a few examples of relegation brinksmanship along the way.
The models for the drawings of the players were taken from the Belgian 'Football 76' sticker album published by Panini, being stylistically in keeping with how we imagine the retro appearance of the Football Alliance to be, existing forever in its own aesthetic timewarped bubble.
First up, we'll present the sixteen clubs in the Championship and then do the same for the Second Division, beginning the process, alphabetically, with Audenshaw Dynamo, known as such since beginning last season back in the top tier, previously being Audenshaw Athletic, who, historically, were founder members of the old Fourth Division, then the fifth level, of the original national Football Alliance back in 1980-81, finishing that season 14th of 16 teams, but subsequently steadily rising through the divisions until achieving Championship status in 1997-98, at which level they've since spent all but one season (2013-14), mostly in mid- to the lower half of the table, with a few examples of relegation brinksmanship along the way.
('Home' kit left, change to the right)
The models for the drawings of the players were taken from the Belgian 'Football 76' sticker album published by Panini, being stylistically in keeping with how we imagine the retro appearance of the Football Alliance to be, existing forever in its own aesthetic timewarped bubble.
