Boot boys get yellow fever

YELLOW is the new black as far as Athletic players’ boots go.

Five men — Liam Kelly, Paul Rachubka, Dominic Poleon, Jordan Bove and Rhys Turner — are trotting out to play in footwear with the traditional black as its base this season.

Injured club captain Adam Lockwood, a staunch traditionalist sporting black boots last term, was seen in pre-season sporting a white pair.

And amid the multicoloured morass, yellow is the favoured tone at SportsDirect.com Park.

Brian Wilson, Danny Philliskirk, James Wilson, Paddy Kenny, James Dayton, Neil Etheridge and Amari Morgan-Smith all have boots with yellow as the main colour.

A survey produced this week showed that in the last round of games almost 48-per-cent of Premier League players wore white boots, with only 15-per-cent going for black.

At Stoke, Chelsea, Leicester and Everton, there was not one player who plays in black footwear.

And Leicester had no fewer than nine men wearing white.

Athletic’s colours — Yellow: Brian Wilson, Danny Philliskirk, James Wilson, Paddy Kenny, James Dayton, Neil Etheridge, Amari Morgan-Smith; Orange: Carl Winchester, Jabo Ibehre, Timothee Dieng, Jonathan Forte; Green: Daniel Johnson, Michael Tidser, Joel Coleman; Blue: Mike Jones, George Elokobi, Joseph Mills; Black: Liam Kelly, Paul Rachubka, Dominic Poleon; White: Genseric Kusunga, David Mellor, Adam Lockwood, Connor Brown.