Arsenal will wear an all-white kit tonight for their third-round FA Cup clash against League One side Oxford United tonight (Monday).
The change in colour is as part of the club's continued initiative aimed at tackling knife crime and youth violence. The north London outfit have historically donned red after receiving a set of redcurrant kits as a charitable donation from Nottingham Forest shortly after they were founded as Dial Square FC in 1886 and would most likely have done so against the League One outfit as there is no obvious colour clash.
However, it has been confirmed by the club that they will now change colours for the second successive FA Cup third-round tie - having done against Forest last season- as they seek to combat the issue of knife crime with there being 11,502 knife offences recorded in London between January 2022 and November 2022, an increase compared with the corresponding period in 2021.
