It was the fashion faux-pas that was talked about decades later.

Going against the grain in a high-profile environment as football has to be backed up with success. There can be no other outcome.

In the early 1990s, it started with the introduction of red and later white boots in a controversial move away from the traditional black.

But worse was to follow and Liverpool were the guilty party on one of English football’s grandest stages.

The FA Cup final had always captured the imagination of the British public with the player’s attire as they walked out onto the hallowed turf in the pre-match preparations, a particular attraction for fans.

But on May 11, 1996, the Reds took things a little too far left field with the help of iconic fashion designer Giorgio Armani who sadly passed a

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