0 a thick, knitted sweater made of wool, of a type originally worn by fishermen: --
1 an island in the English Channel. It is the second largest of the group of islands called the Channel Islands: --
Their playing guernsey consists of gold and brown stripes on the front and gold on the back.
It is worn with white shorts and the socks worn differ slightly from those with the home guernsey.
From 2006 the red was removed from the top of the guernsey, moving it closer to the home guernsey.
The working guernsey design was kept simpler in order to reduce the amount of time and materials needed to produce.
Both groups are featured on the newly designed team guernsey.
The club's current guernsey design features a stylised eagle's head taken from the club's logo on navy blue.
The current incarnation of the guernsey is mostly black, with white stripes on the front and lower half of the back, and white numbers.
It is usually close-fitting and machine knitted in contrast to a guernsey that is more often hand knit with a thicker yarn.
