1 in 12 men are colourblind (it’s a bigger scale for women – 1 in 200) which means statistically one of your teammates has some form of colour blindness.
I bring this up because of a comment on a couple of Andrew Batt’s photos at the weekend where Wokingham & Emmbrook (orange) travelled to Flackwell Heath (red) where the visitors narrowly lost out in a thrilling encounter with the Heathens netting in injury time to win 5-4.
A look through the Colour Blind Awareness website is – for want of a better phrase – eye-opening on this and shows how we need to think about kit clashes as, if nothing else, the colours you choose to play in could affect your team’s performance.
To show how complicated this issue is, Andrew tells me he is colourblind himself, but his issues are with reds, greens and browns so Saturday’s kits didn’t cause him an issue.
It is a complex issue that’s not going to be solved in these paragraphs, but to read up on things like kit clashes, training kit and more head here to colourblindawareness.org.
Sports people who have spoken openly about their colour blindness include Sir Ian Botham, Tiger Woods, Jurgen Klopp as well as former Reading FC Women midfielder Remi Allen and ex Reading and Bracknell Town striker Nicholas Bignall.
