Why England are wearing red socks with home kit against Northern Ireland at Women's Euro 2022

England will play their final group match of the Women's European Championship tonight when they take on Northern Ireland at St Mary's Stadium in Southampton.

The Lionesses have already qualified for the quarter-finals as winners of Group A after a lightning start to the tournament. A 1-0 win over Austria at Old Trafford last Wednesday was followed up by a resounding 8-0 thrashing of Norway at the AMEX Stadium on Monday.

Sarina Wiegman's team were leading 6-0 at the interval in Brighton as they cruised to the final eight of the tournament, with excitement building at a rapid rate regarding England's chances of winning the tournament.

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Although their quarter-final scheduled for next Wednesday against one of Spain or Denmark will now be the priority, there's another game to come tonight before the knockouts begin against already eliminated Northern Ireland.

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Despite the match having next to no impact on proceedings in the tournament, it has still made the headlines with Wiegman set to be absent from the dugout in Southampton, having tested positive for Coronavirus.

As well as that, a kit change for the Lionesses has drawn attention for a unique reason.

England were due to play in their maroon away strip this evening, but have since swapped to their traditional white home kit. However, they will play with maroon socks in order to avoid a colour blind kit clash.

The green kit of Northern Ireland mixed with England's crimson away strip would have caused those who suffer from colour blindness plenty of issues, given that red and green are the most problematic colours.

This is why Kenny Shiels' side wore white in their first two games of the tournament, and also why the Lionesses did the same when the two sides met in Belfast earlier this year.

England wore their maroon socks with their white home kit when they took on Northern Ireland earlier this year (Getty Images)

Colour blindness affects one in 12 men and one in 200 women and is caused by specialised cells in the back of the eye called cones being unable to work.

There are three types of cones, which detect blue, green and red with those who are colour blind having at least one cone that doesn't function properly.

This is a positive decision and could be regularly implemented in both the men and women's game in the near future.