what football shirts u got / what football shirts u want

started playing 5-a-side again for the first time in like a decade, thoughts turn to swagging myself out for the coming summer months

got: qpr 82 (sans guinness sponsor weirdly), 94 (compaq sponsor), dortmund 95 and ajax 94 (all home)

want: all the mid 90s nike/dortmunds, south africa 96 home, croatia 96, parma 92 (with the striped bunting sleeves!) and possibly the 94 celtic green/white/yellow swooshy 3rd

will rustle up pics in a bit

http://www.classicfootballshirts.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/0dc2d03fe217f8c83829496872af24a0/i/m/image_34338_2.jpg

http://www.classicfootballshirts.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/0dc2d03fe217f8c83829496872af24a0/i/m/image_1040.jpg

I've got last year's Wolves shirt and a Cork City shirt that I can't seem to find a pic of, it's a few years old anyhow

wolves shirts without goodyear on are just rong imo

First kit I ever had was the original Hitachi Liverpool one from 77-ish

I've got a Nike outlet and a Mike Ashley's budget emporium round my way, which are very nice for bagging some cheap swag when I want a pick-me-up. Picked up the red England away this week for £8 to add to recentish acquisitions of outdated Arsenal and Barca shirts and my favourite Inter away with the massive St George's cross on it. Obviously the England carries a stigma which is only amplified by the 'South Africa' embroidered under the crest. Was thinking of adding a 'Terry 6' for a full punk/swastika vibe.

Want: the Inter away with the dragons and a decent Milan shirt, don't mind which. The bwin one is on offer for £8 but looks cheap as hell. I'd like a 70s Ajax one. My retro Cosmos shirt looks like it's lost for good, I'd really like that back most of all.

I've also got a Boca Juniors home circa 98 with a big 10 stitched on the back. It's beautiful.

so jealous of clubs like liverpool or villa or even newcastle with argosies of great shirts

the basic qpr design itself is great but nearly all shirts have been articulated shittily

Wd love a Parma shirt from the Tino and Dino era

http://www.whoateallthepies.tv/ac%20milan%20pooh.jpg

this is the only milan one u want obv

inter have had some belters in the past though, you should splash out!

intrigued by the thought of the inter/george cross one, not sure i could pull it off

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QCoGW_mykRY/TWJRWuim3yI/AAAAAAAABH4/q-kIYeA0Plw/s1600/image_28926.jpg

THISSSS

what a beaut

Hahahaha! Joe's never looked more stylish.

I saw a pink retro shirt with a badge I didn't recognise but I presume is Palermo - was pretty gorgeous but out of my price range.

haha two of the guys i play turned up in palermo homes! that was awkward

juve have pink aways too, notably the sony minidisc one iirc

http://designinsport.blogspot.com/2010/07/pink-football-shirts.html

Loving the Juve original pink shirts with black ties story. Now that's stylish.

i know right!

i don't ever wear my ajax one tbh, insultingly unsuited to my playing style

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_WN7p6KRwBjQ/TE58oux9vTI/AAAAAAAAAEw/TLowB9GVV2c/s400/4225.gif

losing points for the lads in bow ties though

had a nice collection of football shirts from the late 80s - early 90s at one point (ireland 88, milan 90, holland 91, scotland 91, the liverpool grey one with the triangles)

just have one shirt now

http://www.classicfootballshirts.co.uk/media/catalog/product/L/i/Liverpool-06-Yellow.gif

this is a pretty classy shirt that i may consider getting

Pumas (Mexico)

http://cdn.merca20.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Pumas-Jersey-Home.jpg

i've got all really old ones, have toyed with idea of buying a liverpool shirt in recent years but 50 quid for something i'll never wear for fashion reasons is expensive

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_iGb4gzj0nZw/SluiRNdLizI/AAAAAAAAAhc/oA80LhhnW8Q/Real+Madrid+2+(1).JPG

https://www.vintagefootballshirts.com/avactis-images/psg97al_s.jpg

http://www.uksoccershop.com/images/inter_training.jpg

oops, sorry havent had my coffee yet

http://www.classicfootballshirts.co.uk/media/catalog/product/L/i/Liverpool-06-Yellow.gif

http://cdn.merca20.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Pumas-Jersey-Home.jpg

http://www.classicfootballshirts.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/0dc2d03fe217f8c83829496872af24a0/i/m/image_838_2.jpg

I had this Moscow Dynamo shirt when I was at school, it was pretty excellent.

i have this 91 spurs shirt, but never wear it
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UicgYwyB2Bw/Sd-Ms1PxRsI/AAAAAAAAC0I/87F-cMUCp6o/s400/kit10.jpg

i also have a plain white spurs training top from last year that i mainly play tennis in.

lots of shirts i see and want (croatia away, lots of new umbro kits) but won't ever bother buying

I bought this cos it was the closest I could find to a Harchester United shirt.

http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/9075/tottenham98away.gif

I coveted the earlier Spurs one (maybe '87?) with the diagonal pinstripes and the arrows, but when I went to get it I bought the dark-blue-with-alternate-sky-blue-and-white-diagonal-pinstripes third kit instead for some reason. It didn't have a collar either and I resented it from the moment I first wore it.

heres the scotland one i had at one point

http://www.classicfootballshirts.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/0dc2d03fe217f8c83829496872af24a0/S/c/Scotland-91-Home-S_2_1.jpg

i have been good at buying shirts over the years but poor at hanging on to them. not sure how many cov shirts i've had but a good number. had a home and away shirt from the 3 years i had season ticket at goodison, including this beauty:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3196/3483238331_e593ca5b90.jpg

owned at some point as a child/teen an arsenal home (not sure why), pompey home (really not sure why), both an ugly celtic away and an ugly rangers away. also has this monstrosity:

http://www.oldfootballshirts.com/img/shirts/61/thumbs/football_shirt_17813_1_500x400x0.jpg

had a few european shirts, mostly from places i visited. had a white OFI shirt, that purple madrid above, plus this psg away and this awesome roma home but with long sleeves, wolf heads all the way down to the cuffs:

http://www.classicfootballshirts.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/0dc2d03fe217f8c83829496872af24a0/i/m/image_8081.jpg
http://www.classicfootballshirts.co.uk/customphp/gifthumb.php?img=http://www.classicfootballshirts.co.uk/media/catalog/product/R/o/Roma-98-Home.gif&w=265&h=265

only international shirt i ever had was a very fake looking latvia one a few years ago. but my mum did knit me a red jumper with a lion in an england kit for the 82 world cup.

I used to buy all the replica shirts through the worst era for Celtic away shirts (lol 1990s), and I think it's scarred me for life. Possibly literally, ugh cheap shiny material. I used to have an Ireland away shirt and a Brazil shirt at one point as well. Now all I own is a slimfit ladies Scotland shirt. I have a couple of Celtic official club shop t-shirts though which I bought for Seville, which still get an outing occasionally. Considering a St Pauli retro one.

http://www.uksoccershop.com/images/stpauli_retro.jpg

haha some of the scotland national aways were stonkers

http://www.classicfootballshirts.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/0dc2d03fe217f8c83829496872af24a0/i/m/image_36712.jpg
http://www.classicfootballshirts.co.uk/media/catalog/product/i/m/image_7444.gif
http://www.classicfootballshirts.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/0dc2d03fe217f8c83829496872af24a0/S/c/Scotland-90-Away-Use.jpg

(!!)

cov too, especially in the golden age of hummel

and that everton shirt of spiralli's is fantastic! considering i've never met or seen anyone give a toss about everton in london i wonder if i could get away with it... probably not

oops, that last classy scots one was meant to be this

http://www.classicfootballshirts.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/0dc2d03fe217f8c83829496872af24a0/s/c/scotland-91-leisure_1.jpg

My brother had that one. I used to roundly mock him for it.

philistine!

in term of non-wanky collector ones though that roma 00s home gets better and better the more i look at it

but my mum did knit me a red jumper with a lion in an england kit for the 82 world cup.

― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 25 March 2011 17:48 (57 minutes ago) Bookmark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hhk8VVS2AU

can't help but be reminded of this

I had the Scotland home with diamonds down the sleeves as a nipper (no idea what year it was, possibly '78?). I also had a polyester Arsenal top with huge collars that were great fun to chew on, though it didn't have a badge or anything and I suppose may not have been a footy shirt at all.

And a Forest one with the Panasonic logo in furry velour. Quality finish in them days.

http://www.tottenhamblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/aston-villa-away-shirt-1993-to-1995-s_1583_1.jpg

I still own this

It's infernal

http://www.tottenhamblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/aston-villa-away-shirt-1993-to-1995-s_1583_1.jpg

The worst thing about Villa get relegated will be going back to a worse kit supplier than Nike and having to put up with years of creamy pink West Ham style "claret" bollocks

http://i674.photobucket.com/albums/vv105/NAPOLEONROFL/IMAG0046.jpg

the random selection i have in my flat the now.

the bottom 3 still fit me, and they're from the mid 90s, when i was still in primary school #skinnyasfuck #wowiwasfreakishlytallasachild

http://www.classicfootballshirts.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/265x/0dc2d03fe217f8c83829496872af24a0/b/o/boca-97-home-use.jpg

This is my Boca shirt, from '97. I didn't know until I looked it up that Maradona had returned for that period, so the no.10 on the back actually does refer to him. Quite chuffed about that.

i actually prefer river plate, lol. but i do like the boca shirt. glad i've got one.

is there a good website for buying old kits at a dece price?

only currently got italy 09/10, celtic 05/06, celtic 07/08 right now : /

as for modern strips, can vouch for the quality/veracity of shirts from this site
http://www.soccerseller.com/

xp I was going to tell my story about having bought mine at La Bombonera and then getting home and wearing it out to the shops on my first day back, and literally the first guy I bumped into was wearing a River shirt. But I checked incase I'd told it before and it turned out I had - um, to you last close season.

haha, yeah i remember that now!

The two proper-proper (i.e. not TOFFS) shirts I have are both Saints ones - one from the most recent relegation season (i.e. the one that might as well be an Exeter shirt) and our current one (i.e. the loveliest thing in English football right now), as modelled by Jose Fuckin' Fonte:

http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/javaImages/6e/57/0,,10280~8869742,00.jpg

Only really got one in the want column - Angola's from the last African Cup of Nations.

http://soccerdistrict.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/angola2010jersey.jpg

What I'd really like is the body to carry off wearing that shirt, though. But apparently that doesn't happen by itself, so.

ha I was gonna say I wd look like the fucking Michelin Man in one of them

That bump bottom middle is a curious feature.

Ismael xpost - my favourite Inter away with the massive St George's cross on it.

I used to have one of these! It was my FAVOURITE KIT. And then I stopped being able to wear clothes I owned when I was 10. ;_;

I currently only have this season's Arsenal away kit. No name on the back. When I was younger I had- Arsenal gk kit with the stars on it with Seaman 1 on the back, Arsenal away from the same year 94/95 w/ Wright 8, that Inter kit, a PSG home shirt with that cool Opel sponser w/ the lightning strike, a p sweet Italian away kit when it was all white...

Currently want- an Ajax one, from any time really; a Fiorentina Batitstuta or Baggio one; will get Fabregas 4 next season for his last at Arsenal; a Baresi 6 Milan shirt; I like the Udinese one with the lines all pushed in together; an Argentina away with Messi 10 etc. etc.

http://www.toffs.com/Cruyff-Classic-Washington-Diplomats/productinfo/JC014/

this is beautiful: http://www.retrofootieshirts.co.uk/store/birmingham-city/birmingham-city-1970s-german-flag-41900437270914/

is there a site where you can order classic shirts that aren't ridiculously expensive? toffs i guess is ok for stuff from before i was born but i'm talking post-sponsers stuff they won't do.

I had the same Arsenal GK kit, Sam. Currently have old shirts for Flamengo, Columbia and a LS Arsenal home kit from the 94/95 season - first year I went to a game - that a friend found for me in a charity shop in Brighton.

This is the first, and still my favourite, that I ever owned: http://www.arsenal-il.com/pic/shorts/away94-95.gif

btw there are rumours that the next away kit will be like that!

I liked the '94-'95 home kit, it's got a bad rep. Though how they messed up "red shirt, white sleeves" I dunno. The sleeves are meant to be entirely white, not just the front/top ffs.

http://www.kickette.com/files/2011/03/france.png

Now I really, really, really want the new France away shirt.

yeah i like that!

Me too. It's very French.

the new france home is nice too
http://www.footballshirtculture.com/images/france-11-12-nike-home-football-shirt.jpg

assuming it's the same fabric as the current rangers home

That looks a little like one of those bodypaint ones that they always get some lassie to do before cup finals.

love the frenchiness of the new france shirts. hope one of the players has the good taste to tie a red bandana around their neck while warming up.

really want this hajduk split centenary shirt
http://www.subsidesports.com/uk/images/product/large/Hajduk100YrsSSWhtbl1011.gif

xp a beret and a string of onions round the neck would be beautiful with it, yet

God, just remembered that my mum and dad randomly got me this beauty for my birthday one year.

http://www.classicfootballshirts.co.uk/media/catalog/product/i/m/image_13905.gif

The legendary green Arsenal kit put into production by Chinese bootleggers:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v431/graemeconnelly/2z4hhm9.jpg

http://www.oldfootballshirts.com/img/shirts/1256/rayo-vallecano-de-madrid-home-football-shirt-2004-2005-s_19629_1.jpg

Rayo Vallecano 2004/5: all time imo

hehe, <3 rayo, didn't know of this top til you mentioned it.

rayo being the football team whose theme is a song by anarchist ska punkers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82BjWXP8nqw

germany bringing back the green away shirt. want

http://www.footballshirtculture.com/images/Germany_11_12_Adidas_Away_Leaked_4.jpg

Eh, prefer their black away. I recently acquired the Inter away shirt with the dragon running up the left side, it's o.t.t. but I still like it.

http://i.cdn.turner.com/si/2010/writers/ben_lyttleton/10/30/biabiany/biabiany-298.jpg

hated the black kit especially when the top had white stripes and numbers and the shorts' were gold
http://football-uniform.up.seesaa.net/image/Germany-10-11-adidas-away-kit-black-black-black.JPG

er other way round

German shirt is brilliant.

http://i.imgur.com/GNwQ0.png

now own this little bad boy ^_^

Wow, so many great shirts in here. I only own one shirt, but I have to say I really like wearing it when I play 5-a-side cos it always gets weird looks from folks who have no idea what club it is and are boggled by the sponsor :

http://www.oldfootballshirts.com/img/shirts/726/rayados-de-monterrey-home-football-shirt-2009-s_12695_1.jpg

Really like the Pumas shirt too, but not the one shown upthread, this one :
http://www.thecustomjersey.com/bmz_cache/a/UNAM-Pumas-Away-Jersey-2010-2011.jpg.image.300x300.jpg

bought the same pumas shirt for my nephew yesterday!

It's lovely. I really regret not buying it at the time.

got the new france home

~sickness~

think I'll cop the away too

new german away is hott... will also cop

thank you based soccertriads

I also got the French home & away today. They are lovely.

Even though I do like the look of the new France home, every time I see it i feel like it shouldn't be a football shirt but a rugby shirt maybe.

It doesn't feel like a sports shirt at all, just like the best t-shirt ever. No way will I be sullying it with exercise.

No way will I be sullying it with exercise.

Neither do the French players !

it looks like the same weirdly soft tshirty material as the last couple of england kits

can't wear those (or the last rangers kit which was a similar material) for obvious reasons

checkerboard is big this year for away shirts
http://www.footballshirtculture.com/images/psv-11-12-nike-away-football-shirt-1.jpg
http://www.footballshirtculture.com/images/chelsea-2011-2012-adidas-away-football-shirt-b.jpg

I hope Croatia's designers are on dis ting too

Most of the shirts on this thread that people seem inordinately proud of look pretty horrible, tbh.

oi

I don't want any football shirts. I own three Man Utd ones, one of which is 11 years old (and was only bought because the black-collared 1994 one got boiled to death in The Great Broken Washing Machine Disaster of 2000) and the other two of which were given to me as presents by my brother who I haven't had the heart to tell I never wear football shirts unless I'm actually playing football. And I almost never play football nowadays.

However, I've been meaning to start a thread for some time about football kits, so maybe I should hijack this one with my ramblings.

See, my feelings about a lot of clubs are based on their kits. First of all, I feel that there are too many teams in England with blue shirt-white shorts-blue socks or red shirt-white shorts-red socks combinations. Red-white-red seems a bit insipid compared to red-white-black (and I hate it when United wear white socks). I like to see teams with colours that break out of this pattern, so I'm glad to see Norwich coming up, happy to see Wolves stick around, and disappointed to see Blackpool go down, but couldn't give a fuck about Birmingham. There's probably no logical reason for it, but I feel much more favourably disposed towards Crystal Palace than Charlton.

best shirt

http://pentangle.net/holyblade/blade.jpg

(xp) Secondly, I hate hoops, they remind me of rugby tops (which is A Bad Thing), so I can't get into QPR. Also, I don't like stripes if half the stripes are white. So Newcastle, Wigan, Reading and Sheffield Wednesday can fuck off. Stoke, Sunderland, Southampton and Sheffield United are excused because of the red-white-black thing (unless they don't actually have any black, I might be wrongly assuming they all wear the same colours). But if the stripes are black plus a colour, that's A Good Thing. So Inter and Milan are both OK. Do any English clubs have a kit like this?

Reading are hoops actually, aren't they?

Ugh that fabric. I can envisage it sliding off a slightly-misaligned shelf under its own weight.

There was definitely a black-and-yellow stripey team, which is the worst combo imaginable. I'm wanting to say Newport County?

Roma score plus points for the pleasingly unusual combo of reddish-maroon with goldeny-yellow.

Actually, isn't it also Hull some years?

Wait, aren't Wednesday blue-white-black and therefore a good thing? Or is that rule only yet more shameful pro-Utd bias?

Wednesday's kit is certainly less displeasing than QPR's - I can't be sure if it's the shorts or the hoops/stripes thing, though.

still from batman begins btw

http://pentangle.net/holyblade/batman.png

New Chelsea away obviously has a net on the front to remind Torres where the goal is.

And what it looks like. Cos he's SHIT.

I am wankered so ingore me.

*Ignore.

NBT laying out his kampf itt

considering buying this stinker for posterity:

http://www.football-shirts.co.uk/fans/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/celtic_int_long.jpg

as i don't really play football and think i've gotten too old to be wearing a celtic top to the game football tops are essentially hangover uniform for me.

There was definitely a black-and-yellow stripey team, which is the worst combo imaginable

Piano-key thin hoops taking this concept next-level.

black and yellow black and yellow

Better than new Dortmund home imo.

http://dortmund.theoffside.com/files/2011/05/dortmund-trickot.jpg

http://i737.photobucket.com/albums/xx13/jezzad1/display_image.jpg

Owned this.

dude, i am sorry someone threw up on yr shirt

did MIA pee on you?

i think it might actually be the first football top i owned. i used to like aberdeen, despite never having been there or having any connection in any way with the city and them also being shite. perhaps i was transfigured by jim leighton's vaseline covered eyebrows. then i started going to celtic games and the rest was history.

that is a fine kit imo, umbro were on top form in those days. v natty home too (lazio had the same in blue):

http://www.classicfootballshirts.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/0dc2d03fe217f8c83829496872af24a0/i/m/image_40658_1.jpg

http://www.classicfootballshirts.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/0dc2d03fe217f8c83829496872af24a0/s/c/scotland-90-leisurej.jpg

BOOYA

HAVE IT NBS

the modern age needs more dazzle ship-inspired kit designs.

My eyes!

more checks!

http://www.footballshirtculture.com/images/aston_villa_11_12_nike_away_shirt_leaked.jpg

i really like the psv and villa checks. may even buy the psv one if i can find it under £20.

i am, to a certain extent, with nbs. however my shirt nazi policies are different. any team who plays in red and white who aren't the arsenal can gtfo, as well as any team in white because spurs. blue has to be italy blue to work, it is rare anyone else pulls it off although france do well once every other kit. i like stripes tbh but loops can usually gtfo. check designs are usually awesome, although that chelsea one is carrying on a chelsea away kit disaster trend. if you put any shit on your shirt to try and change with tradition, it better be something fucking awesome because usually it looks like piss or shit stains a retarded child has used to decorate your stripe. if it is luminous, you are the fucking worst. stripes have to be chunky and full (wtf barca) unless you are udinese who can get away with looking like actual barcodes on account of not wanting to look like juve. 2 sponsers at most and if you try to hide them, hell i don't care how bad your kit is, i'll kind of respect you. i'm a sucker for the diagonal sash type kit. i'm a sucker for the one or two stripes down the side type kit, although they haven't really been seen since the nineties (except on lyon shirts.) if your shirt is green, your shirt is the worst.

of course all those rules can be broken, but you'd have to be wearing a fucking awesome shirt to do so.

i'm a sucker for the diagonal sash type kit. i'm a sucker for the one or two stripes down the side type kit

Yeah, these are both good. Also, I've decided there aren't enough purple kits out there (like Fiorentina). A purple and black striped kit would be good.

Neither of your policies address dragons, crucial omission.

usually awesome?

Also lightning type effects - usually well done imo (look at Juve's away kit last year iirc).

I also like when kits try to make the middle of a kit look interesting or use their badge somehow and oft combine these things - look at that recent scotland kit with the large badge fading into the background or the turkey, i think, kit where they used their badge like the sponser.

http://www.kitbag.com/stores/kitbag/products/product_details.aspx?pid=60874

might buy this but x large in football shirts is like a tent. in normal clothes i buy l but in kits i try for a s/m.

lastly can clubs check their sponsers first

http://findel.scene7.com/is/image/Findel/kb-72639?layer=comp&wid=400&hei=400&fmt=jpeg&qlt=90,0&op_sharpen=0&resMode=sharp&op_usm=1.0,1.0,8,0&iccEmbed=0

and plz try not to ruin otherwise decent kits with fucking horrible clashing logos

Terra Mitka was a really fitting logo, I was sorry they lost that

New Brentford away shirt is black and yellow black and yellow black and yellow

http://www.brentfordfc.co.uk/javaImages/e1/61/0,,10421~9724385,00.jpg

BECAUSE WE ARE THE BEES DO YOU SEE.

quite like the new fc st pauli

not feeling the new spurs

the st pauli third is pretty awful, though i like the other two

http://www.football-shirts.co.uk/fans/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/FC3120.jpg

real bohemians vibe from that

s'alright, what's wrong with it

every new adidas kit this year has disgusted me i think

such a shame their sponser is going to ruin this - i really like it

http://www.football-shirts.co.uk/fans/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/807738.jpg

this looks like they are sweating through wth

http://www.football-shirts.co.uk/fans/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/rm2.jpg

oh i want that vcf

What's happening to di Maria's head?

since it's the last year of the contract between puma and spurs, they may have decided to not put in any effort, but this is exactly what a spurs home shirt should look like imo

http://www.footballshirtculture.com/images/tottenham_11_12_Puma_home_shirt_leaked.jpg

Aah, that's lovely. Badge should be in the centre though.

Can you buy shirts without the sponsor?

wow that is fly

there were some spurs shirts last year without the sponsor for some reason. a better bet is to buy training tops which usually are a different design but are cheaper and don't have a sponsor.

If you're going to have no fewer than three pumas on your shirt you might as well add a financial services company or w/e. Like that collar a lot.

My local sports shop is selling some crazy Arsenal polo shirt thing with really thin black & white hoops and purple detailing elsewhere. If it wasn't for the badge you'd never know it had any connection with them at all.

that spurs is ace

shame they had to put 3 pumas logos on but yeah

Badge should be in the centre though.

― Ismael Klata, Friday, 17 June 2011 16:00 (48 minutes ago)

very very very very rarely should badges ever be in the centre. i didnt think i had any nazi diktats about kits but this is probably one

More than MTV, Thatcher, Adam and the Ants or whatever, the first time I saw the early 80s Spurs Le Coq Sportif kit with the centred badge was, for me, the precise moment the 80s began.

In fact there is a Carmodic thesis to be written on The Death Of The Admiral Kit era, imo.

would be well timed, think i read admiral just got bought by ex-umbro dudes and are set for a big relaunch

i see spurs kit designers bottled it once again re having the puma pouncing on the cockerel from behind

http://i.imgur.com/NLTrn.jpg

teal & grey.xls

http://englandstore.thefa.com/product_images/maxzoom/prd_maxzoom_kb-86881.jpg

is that really a football shirt u got / a football shirt u want?

I like how it appears to rotate as you scroll down the page.

I was nosing about in a proper sports shop, where they have individual price lists for each shirt, when I noticed that some of the shirts were available in 'player's version' (or something like that, I forget the term) for £90, as opposed to 'replicas' at circa £45. This was a new distinction on me.

I had the guy talk me through the difference - he brought out two Brazil shirts and showed me that the ventilation panelling was different, the fabric was supposedly a tighter weave (I couldn't tell) and the normal nice embroidered badge was replaced by a sticky transfer to cut down chafing. Frankly, the difference seems negligible, and where you can see it the replica's better.

Yeah I saw some of those 'player's version' shirts in the LFC shop the other day. The regular home shirt is £45. The 'Player edition' techfit shirt is £100.

I've managed to find some people to have a kickabout with on another forum. I was looking for a nice, cheap shirt, but ended up getting a Barca training t-shirt for £13 instead. It was that or a long-sleeve Sweden shirt for £15, but I don't fancy standing out in that yellow - I've not played for ages and am probably going to be a bit rusty.

and the normal nice embroidered badge was replaced by a sticky transfer to cut down chafing

think this must have been a Brazil-only deal, custom-designed for Anderson.

http://www.footballshirtculture.com/images/Tibet-11-12-copa-home-football-shirt-a.jpg

awesome want

http://www.uksoccershop.com/p-20205/2011-12-Tibet-Copa-Home-Football-Shirt.html

this is the only uk place i can find that's selling it

it has "tibet" written on the back in a stupid orientalist font :(

haha yes it's gross! though as a terrible person i quite like that.

lol otm

I like how the rays are a continuation of the ones on the badge, though I bet on the real-life shirts they don't align quite so nicely

got
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5204/5358646875_ab50e52ce0.jpg

getting
http://www.uksoccershop.com/images/20048.jpg

Please don't let this come to pass:
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/431418_10150587984258839_673353838_9234003_1899273189_n.jpg

that's horrible

surely not.

http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/422238_316701371714890_100001250906082_966637_1955123226_n.jpg

some childhood strips.

the romario, post 1994 win, so with the extra star on the badge, bought in brasil by my dad, was the most coveted. this was before the time when world football strips were that common in glasgow shops.

Fiorucci?!

I only know it from the Sister Sledge song, but I doubt a nylon Inter shirt was the image Nile Rodgers was aiming for.

early 90s. that was maybe 93-94 or 94-95. were the sponsor at least 3 seasons.

note that they're all umbro. none of those teams are umbro anymore.

coincidentally flamengo player in the first football game i ever attended. celtic vs flamengo, hampden, august 1994.

played even

Heh, I remember you mentioning - the angriest guy in the world, right?

haha oh yeah. probably magnified in my mind and such but yeah, screaming "you fucking dirty cunt ye, get it right up ye" etc. at a pre-season friendly.

maybe he was a Vasco fan

i suppose it was good to be introduced at my first football game to the prevalent phenomenon of cunts at the football who just piss and moan, never sing a song, never say anything positive. a lesson in football and life, lots of people are reprehensibly negative and should just shut the fuck up and go home.

what ever happened to rtc?

http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll234/stevoknevo70/fc_st_pauli_home_kit_10_11.jpg

*awed*

in no way even looks like a football kit.
v cool tho

o yeah def want this
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/si/2012/writers/raphael_honigstein/03/02/germany/ozil_france_298.jpg

it is amazing. adidas are the best.

would buy this:

http://uploadscdn.sportnetwork.net/upload/670/EMP-86240.jpg

subconscious zionism there imo

Just walked by a Somali man rocking a brand new SCHWEINSTEIGER 31 Bayern top in my small middle American city, great look imo.

ok I like the canadian fa centennial shirt

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-p5EwWxcFLqs/T7PAuKzljSI/AAAAAAAADZU/8fusFiK7w2A/s1600/Canada100YearsShirt.jpg

http://www.qpr.co.uk/javaImages/4d/bd/0,,10373~10861901,00.jpg

gross :/

can't we ever have a nice fecking shirt

There's a nice line of sailor chic there for you with that scheme, with a bit of imagination

can't we ever have a nice fecking shirt

You don't like hoops either?

gtfo with your clueless taste, hoops are awesome (unless theyre fake like reading's)

reckon united's kit looks quite nice once you see it in full

this might the green arsenal away from a few years ago as a bootlegger only option, but i kinda like it, i think

http://www.footballshirtculture.com/images/arsenal-12-13-nike-away-football-shirt-leaked-b.jpg

might *join* the green..

the goth girl in my class at school had tights that looked like that

u gotta see barca away 12/13

the new barca home kit is terrible.

i'm sure the new away kit is worse

https://p.twimg.com/AtfgG7mCMAA_-Mc.jpg

http://www.footballshirtculture.com/images/barcelona-12-13-nike-home-football-shirt-a.jpg

both great

I find the font really offensive. You don't want to be wearing that, you want something big & bold.

global hypercolor chic is so 2006 dahlings

likin it tho

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02227/arsenalkitget_2227603b.jpg

What's with the black armbands? It's a bit morbid.

bugger how morbid it is, it's a bit utd.

The new away kit is an explosion of bright colour to celebrate the club’s effervescent style of play.

The new shirt fuses orange into yellow on the body paying homage to the city’s mixture of culture, art, style and architecture. The shirt has a classic orange crew neck ribbed collar with the famous Blaugrana detail on the back of the neck and orange sleeves.

The outer back detail on the shirt is Catalan’s Senyera flag, whilst the inner neck graphic reads, ‘Més que un club’ (More than a club). The font used on the kit is inspired by Catalan architecture.

Whilst the kits combine modern sport and youth style to give the club an iconic new look, Nike’s innovation provides our most technologically advanced kits to aid athlete comfort and performance.

writing press copy for kit releases has to be the funnest job i can think of

nike need to be banned. just absolute fucking shite.

was going to go on some rant about fucking up the iconic barca top but then i remembered that there's been plenty of ropey efforts in the past.]

http://cdn.fourfourtwo.com/contentimages/interviews/Koeman_Big.jpg

nevertheless, the man u gingham number, those two barca monstrosities, new celtic home top with smaller hoops, the sleeves on their goaly tops that look like animal print. terrible aesthetic choice after terrible aesthetic choice.

http://i.imgur.com/ySC1W.jpg

sweet dog

dog ought to have a shirt too.

Kinda superhero chic, kinda graduation ceremony imo

changed my mind. the dog ought to have those socks.

great shirt promo pic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSyhDbV9wHo&feature=player_embedded

all of these. moreso, they sure don't make football tv like this any more.

i think the guy at ~1:30 is someone's parallel universe evil twin.

That might be the greatest thing I have ever seen. My life will never be the same again.

(I thought the designer guy was LBI at first btw. I'm not even sure why I think he looks like that, apologies if I've got that all wrong)

That might be the greatest thing I have ever seen.

Call me a cynic, but I had my doubts as to the veracity of this comment before I viewed the clip. However, now that I've seen it I can only agree.

http://i.imgur.com/T4vg5.jpg

nasty

i actually like that

oh the kinda lame firey tattoo detail on the sleeves suck but i like the colour combo

should support luton in that case

are fitba kits now explicitly cribbing from the semiotics of ed hardy / affliction etc

newco rangers 2k12/13 will have a skull on a cross marked INLA, also fluorescent orange flame decals

I suppose, seeing as Norwich are staying in the premier league at least another season, I should get a newer shirt than the one I bought when we were in League 1, but I hate the stupid polo-shirt-style collars they have, like you could wear it to some formal event. Might have to go for a goalie shirt, but then there's the annoying long sleeves. Maybe I'll just buy a yellow t-shirt.

xpost: I hadn't considered that aspect. As a NewCo they're free to do whatever they want with the kit without any obligation to the old color scheme. Either go straight-up Jockey style with some spots and satin, or maybe green and white hoops...

wait you have the only shirt in the league (prob the country) with a proper collar and you don't like it?

http://www.footballshirtculture.com/images/norwich-city-11-12-errea-away-football-shirt-b.jpg

lolling

The newco shirt is already out btw. They've gone for all-royal-blue, with an RFC badge, rather than e.g. the historical hooped design. In fairness it's a pretty great strip, except for the sponsor's name which is tucked small under the badge for some reason.

Man, that's an embarrassing pic of tubby Holty, and the spare tyre isn't even the most embarrassing thing about it. I wouldn't hate the collar so much if it wasn't just a bit of fabric stitched at the neck (which I'm all to aware is pretty much the definition of a collar), but it's still the same high-neck round hole, but with a bit of fabric stitched on. Though a proper collar would probably look at little too rugger.

wing-tip collars have never really been done, and I can't recall too much variety in fasteners

http://i.imgur.com/i0POj.jpg

hrmm

why is nike obsessed with these oversized cuffs

http://i.imgur.com/jPijK.jpg

https://p.twimg.com/AxjxBbfCQAAqtGk.jpg

the purp is ugly. such an insult to la viola. also lol having rizzle kicks in the internet video to sell it.

Is this a concerted effort to adopt purple as a club colour? There were polo shirts in a similar design kicking around a year or two back.

I quite like the big cuffs xps, certainly compared to that ludicrous cardigan v-neck they had - but they'd be better with an authentic shirt-sleeves-rolled-back look, like what I'm rocking at work today.

nah, it is just nike doing stupid shit the fans don't care for. internet reaction has been p much all negative, the same way it has been for most things they do. (most fans want a conservative red w/ white arms home kit and a yellow away kit, although will accept an alternating yellow and blue kit each season. conservative thinking here makes sense, considering only one of the 20 stupid out-the-box limited-edition different ideas nike has had in the past decade has looked good or made sense, the redcurrant last highbury kit.)

http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/4079/mcqueen.jpg

I did order some official Arsenal merchandise last week in an early strike for my dad's birthday, which was a jacket a lot like that ^ (model: my dad). It's actually pretty swish, I was expecting to be ripped off in some fashion, but no.

thinking about jumping on the malaga bandwagon

http://www.footballkitnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Nike-Malaga-Kit-2012.jpg

recreativo away kit for next season is a doozy

http://www.football-shirts.co.uk/fans/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/recreativo2.jpg

check out that dame

Club officials insisted they liked the 'innovative' shirt, but Hummel's reaction was more plausible.

The company pointed out it had only ten days to come up with two new kits after taking on the contract at the last minute.

arsenal away is good

also purple rather than violet

purple purple purple

What kind of excuse is that xp? It's a football shirt, the hard bit was done 100 years ago.

a brilliant excuse is what that is

thinking about jumping on the malaga bandwagon

― mizzell, Thursday, July 12, 2012 5:22 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

man i know how to pick em

rifling through the family home cupboards i found this beauty:

http://www.classicfootballshirts.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/0dc2d03fe217f8c83829496872af24a0/i/m/image_2009.gif

(southampton away 1981-83, the darker colour is more browny than it looks there.)

unfortunately it seems to be pre-teen sized, i'd have to have my ribcage compressed to get retro fashionable with it. but i also found

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3078/2556860304_00fccbf1e6.jpg

which is grown-up sized (ricken 18 on the back), so i'll be taking that with me for theoretical kickabout attire.

oy no paul lambert? way to betray the proud caledonian nation

Ooh, classic. Whatever happened to him?

And you'd think that shirt would've been fine with just 'xerox'

I don't know how I ended up with the classy foreigner rather than the local hero, but it was for the best - a shirt celebrating a current Celtic player wouldn't have lasted long with my brothers around.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/181069058795

http://www.uni-watch.com/2013/03/07/a-look-at-a-1935-umbro-soccer-uniform-catalog/

There are also some listings for “Hockey Shirts” and “Ladies’ Hockey Blouses.” But as you can see on the next two spreads, these don’t look anything like 1930s hockey sweaters (and besides, hockey wasn’t popular in the UK in the 1930s, was it?). I believe these jerseys were for field hockey. Take a look:

yah think?

Detroit City FC (4th division) -- best shirts in North American soccer? http://www.detcityfc.com/2013-kits/

Those are nice. Very Arsenal '05, but that's good thing imo

What the what

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MGflUQdfRBM/UXUx50vSwGI/AAAAAAAAFHo/A852SZepECM/s1600/Liverpool-13-14-Warrior-Away-Kit.jpg

it looks like a forest

But wait there's more

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xFcJvrhFdvU/UXUx7HFHzKI/AAAAAAAAFHw/oE3dOBLZnso/s500/Liverpool-13-14-Warrior-Third-Kit.jpg

Could that red one be 90s Magic Eye nostalgia?

Let your eyes go funny and you see title contenders

red/white one is humanity's worst crime but the white/black/purp is kind of awesome!

arent those fakes from a while ago

dad got me this season's away shirt the other week but is now threatening to compost it rather than send it, told him i am proud to wear the relegation threads regardless

https://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/cf0c98bbff143708eb3134bcbe089ab1/tumblr_mnr69uhiWx1rsd46lo2_500.jpg

https://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/34295829607fdc612104005224fa9978/tumblr_mnr69uhiWx1rsd46lo1_500.jpg

feeling the 90s warrior crazy tbh

http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10265~3206695,00.html

these are upsetting

I like 'em, though the collars look like they've been inexpertly photoshopped.

Of those I've seen in the flesh, the new Barca is good; the new Liverpool's quite swish too, but imo a downgrade from this year's.

http://cdn.bleacherreport.net/images_root/article/media_slots/photos/001/040/357/AwayTrikot_06_GET_010913.variant525x310_original.jpg?1378222982

http://www.footballshirtculture.com/images/LaHoyaLorca1.jpg

My retro Cosmos shirt looks like it's lost for good, I'd really like that back most of all.

― Ismael Klata, Friday, March 25, 2011 3:58 PM (2 years ago)

This turned up last week in a bag my parents had prepared for the charity shop. I've rarely been as chuffed.

<a href="http://www.footballtshirtuk.com/Orlando-Pirates-Away-Football-Shirt-20122013.html";>http://www.footballtshirtuk.com/Orlando-Pirates-Away-Football-Shirt-20122013.html<;/a>
Orlando Pirates shirt, I get it. I just always liked the red shirt.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pIvqlniv9kw/Uwjxb8_DpxI/AAAAAAAAWM4/SnANMBz6avQ/s1600/Chicago+Fire+2014+Home+Jersey.jpg

football shirts u do not want

keep expecting to see a TRON speederbike going across that pattern

a picture of a sixteenth-century dude is almost the same thing

my favourite Inter away with the massive St George's cross on it

I wore this out & about in Scotland on the day of England v Germany at the last World Cup, just to see what would happen. It was fine - some kids chanted 'Germany, Germany' at me as I walked across a park; and then a family actually opened their front door to cheer me as I passed.

I didn't even have to deploy the withering "it's an Inter Milan strip you fucking moron" line I had all prepared, just in case

How long were you working on that line?

A while. I didn't trust myself to deliver spontaneously, should I have been accosted by a group of woad-daubed savages wielding claymores. It was fine though, the referendum was still only a glint in Salmond's eye.

http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/20140518/nike-creates-commemorative-arsenal-shirt

jfc. that belongs on the things that look like an onion article thread.

i think i could do a better version w the 7 parts of that i own + limited sewing ability

looool

http://www.oldfootballshirts.com/img/shirts/1387/chengdu-blades-unknown-shirt-type-2011-s_23311_1.jpg
http://www.oldfootballshirts.com/img/shirts/1387/chengdu-blades-unknown-shirt-type-2011-s_23311_2.jpg

I think that arsenal shirt commemorates 20 years of nike not really giving a shit and throwing something together and saying "will that do?" before Puma take over

Having said that I really like some of the nike shirts, I've got 3. Really like the away kit from this season. I promised I'd get the name of anyone who scored an fa cup winner on the back of my shirt, so I'll be getting a rambo. Although I wanna hurry up before there's some puma travesty instead...

I always wanted a juve shirt, with the italian flag crest. The new france wc shirt looks nice too. Are Italy shirts nice anymore? I really liked them a while back but then the tone of blue changed to a shitty blue and they've never been the same since.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/ng-interactive/2014/may/30/-sp-world-cup-kits

folks gotta stop fucking around with their shorts colours. argentina in white shorts and spain in red is making me sad.

Those Mexico shirts from the 50s are pretty slick, remind me of Venezuela.

folks gotta stop fucking around with their shorts colours. argentina in white shorts and spain in red is making me sad.

Was there some kind of FIFA directive that banned international teams from having more than two colours or did I imagine that? I can't think of any reason why they would want to do that, but that doesn't mean they didn't do it.

i don't think they banned them but they want teams to be unicolor to help out the refs or some shit.

next year's roma kit is niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice
http://static.asromastore.it/img/raptor/catalog/ASROMA/large/NK-JSY01-ST_012_main_large.jpg

and argentina in white shorts is a travesty. i was all set to root for them to win the whole thing.

Was something about teams playing in one colour to look better on tv, esp in hd or something

Obvs super dumb bits it's FIFA so

That Guardian thing shows Spain 82 as kind of the watershed for non-traditional kits coming in, the Umbro braces on the Belgian kit make me all nostalgic. USA 94 is just lol90s. After that there is a definite theme for each tournament, but I can't quite put my finger on what it is. I also like that Portugal have had a completely different kit every time.

i take back what i said about Argentina, the white shorts look quite nice.

Argentina away kit is nice

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/feb/05/liverpool-announce-new-balance-kit-deal

ooh. jel

if they bring back the grey away it'll be the athleisure hipster item of the season

Celtic will be new balance next season too.

https://thisisfootballislife.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/mexico-home-football-shirt-1996-1998-s_3660_1.jpg

all time

http://i.imgur.com/LHNdy6s.jpg

was delighted to see this old treat unveiled by a rovers supporting friend for 5s yday

i suggested to him how excellent it'd be if he got NORMATIVE printed on the back but hdgi so now i'm telling all u instead :(

90s goalkeeper shirts were extraordinary. what a time to be alive.

sampdoria, my fav Italian team due to Genoese great grandfather, have launched a new kit with a speaker in it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPWw9Ex9O2M

I absolutely adore the samp shirt in general, think it's one of the classics.

The new @adidasfootball Flamengo Icon jersey is beautiful. Smart. Slick. Impressive. I need this. pic.twitter.com/Rrlq1RFJnX

— LUKE (@luke16taylor) March 8, 2018

Oh bloody hell. Reports that this is Marseille's home shirt for next season, marking 25 years since European Cup win. Oof. pic.twitter.com/x2ckHvFYum

— Daniel Storey (@danielstorey85) March 9, 2018

I have little or no use for football shirts, there is no time in my life when I'd wear one. BUT I have to say I would like a Jerez Industrial away kit. Red dots on black = good. Jerez Industrial club badge, featuring an actual glass of sherry = excellent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerez_Industrial_CF

https://www.scotsman.com/webimage/1.4708836.1521539855!/image/image.jpg

<3

huh. i was kinda interested in the belgium away shirt.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/03/20/08/4A5D5E6800000578-5521807-image-a-11_1521536044548.jpg

puma kits have been really bad for a while, but making all away shirts white is really weird
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-5518707/Puma-reveal-10-new-away-kits-4-teams-wear-World-Cup.html

https://www.scotsman.com/webimage/1.4708836.1521539855!/image/image.jpg

<3

― Louis Jägermeister (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, March 20, 2018 11:42 AM (thirty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

huh. i was kinda interested in the belgium away shirt.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/03/20/08/4A5D5E6800000578-5521807-image-a-11_1521536044548.jpg

― mizzell, Tuesday, March 20, 2018 12:08 PM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/023/397/C-658VsXoAo3ovC.jpg

xp. i don't care for puma kits at all

I never know how people can distinguish between manufacturers of kits. I must miss the gene that does that. I know what I like or dislike (and I love that Belgium and l'OM kits), but I'll be damned if I knew who made it.

puma manages to put at least three of its logo on every shirt.

No I know that, it's more the "Puma are AWFUL at designing kits m8, Adidas is the shit!" stuff I don't get.

general ranking of football kits from good to bad imo:

Adidas
Umbro
Nike
New Balance/Under Armour
Puma
Joma etc.

macron has my least favorite logo
http://d2dzjyo4yc2sta.cloudfront.net/?url=images.pitchero.com%2Fui%2F119862%2F1465336185_9135.jpg&w=820&t=fit&q=85

Love Macron because they were the only one of the big companies willing to deal with Hereford when they reformed in such a lowly league.

With the Wembley appearance and all they sold FIFTEEN THOUSAND shirts of various types in the first season, they had branded videos on the front page of their website of "the road to the FA Vase final" in the week leading up to it.

They even sent a delegation to the match and sponsored a box - we were on the same train as them from Baker Street and got chatting, they were laughing about how it was prosecco and cigars all round as re-orders kept coming in. They also pointed out that they made Palace's kit and they had played in the FA Cup final the day before, and to ask ourselves why they were making the effort to come from Italy for us and not them...

Aw, well done Macron.

Before today I'd only harboured a vague resentment based on the unnecessary largitude of the logo passing for an o in their trademark.

iirc that marseille one is just a special edition shirt to commemorate the cup win

shame usa didnt make the wc as their new kits are a blast
as for the wc i really like germany home & away, belgium home, nigeria home & away & brazil away i guess so far

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/03/26/13/4A9268C500000578-5544857-image-a-116_1522065824413.jpg

Denmark will take on Chile on Tuesday evening in a one-off patchwork kit that pays homage to the national team strips through the years.

Kit manufacturer Hummel released pictures of the stunning design with Danish fans hailing the memories evoked from the shirt.

that one looks alright!

nike did one for arsenal & st petersburg in the last few years that werent as easy on the eye

theyre both shown here:
https://www.footyheadlines.com/2017/05/zenit-create-special-nike-kit-to-farewell-club-legend.html

https://media.tycsports.com/files/2018/04/29/7871/1_416x555.jpg

Is it just me or does the collar of our shirt for next season look like it includes a dinky little bow-tie?

https://www.thekitman.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/img_5777.jpg

hm https://www.thekitman.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/img_5777.jpg

Ach well you can click this if you want to see the bow-tie effect

https://www.thekitman.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/img_5777.jpg

https://www.thekitman.co.uk/exeter-city-2018-19-home-kit-released/

dog dirt

it really does

for real want this one

Just when I thought the rug story couldn't get any better

that's a screamer

I'm already trying to google translate the hell out of Rostov's website but not getting anywhere so far. I need that kit.

Last Saturday I went to see the first home match of Clapton CFC (the supporter-owned club formed by the 'Clapton Ultras' that had been watching Clapton FC). Not because I was massively interested in them, but just because I was free, it only cost £2 to get in, and it was just five minutes away from my house. I didn't know much about them, but I knew they wore red and white stripes, so I was a bit confused when they came onto the pitch wearing a red/yellow/purple/spots/stripes/stars monstrosity of a kit. I thought it was awful. When I read the programme I found out that the fans had voted on this design for their new away kit and it was based on the flag of the anti-fascists in the Spanish civil war. Worthy, maybe, but an embarrassing design, I thought. I now see it's become an overnight sensation - despite the fact there were only about 200 people at the match, they've sold over 5,000 shirts in the this week and had to suspend orders because they can't cope with the demand (mostly coming from Spain).
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/aug/31/no-pasaran-clapton-cfc-anti-fascist-football-kit-proves-hit-in-spain

> “they shall not pass”

I'm not sure whether this is terrible or genius.

I like the red/black halves and I especially like the badge.

https://goo.gl/images/GHDrsT

NOB

It’s got me written all over it.

A New Wave Rises 🇮🇹
Introducing @azzurri new kit, straight from the Renaissance.
Available now. pic.twitter.com/mBKnvFSMAO

— PUMA Football (@pumafootball) October 7, 2019

Ordering rn

My local lower div side is polling ppl with different options for next year. Most aren't bad but this might do it for me.

Option 2! #MplsCity #Uncorporate pic.twitter.com/aPrRZkdqJh

— Minneapolis City SC (@mplscitysc) October 8, 2019

my eyes!

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tRxXfRGt1rc/XSwnOQOLxiI/AAAAAAACBT8/17yfroZZ1Hs7IQtWwsUg4NbkP3bEnaIBACLcBGAs/s1600/manchester-city-19-20-third-kit-1.jpg

ha defo! wasn't that a couple years back?
the new puma ones look good, especially italy home for the euros

it was yesterday! fa cup, bbc1 around 9ish, man city third kit apparently.

the top is yellower in other pictures.

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/man-city-leaked-third-kit-16563247

but you need the pink shorts and yellow socks for the full effect

In a Rugby pub last autumn- I mean a pub in Rugby, Warwickshire- some old coot turned to me and said how fugly that Man City third kit is. Getting a grunt of agreement from me, he then added "that kit, it wants taking out and shooting"

Some cool football shirts on this thread

We have some cool classic kits on https://www.legendsfootballshirts.co.uk/

Cool

https://soccerstories.substack.com/p/the-kit-industrial-complex

Many soccer clubs began thinking of themselves as quasi-lifestyle brands some time ago. Paris Saint-Germain aspires to becoming a purveyor of fashion. So does Juventus. But a slew of American teams playing in the minor leagues or even in amateur circuits, like Providence City, Forward Madison and the Kingston Stockade, have hurried past building a global soccer juggernaut and skipped ahead to the fashion part.

Whereas PSG and its fellow powerhouses see streetwear as an avenue to tap into new markets—namely the non-fans—and eke out a little more revenue, some savvy American clubs have made the merchandising business central to their model. It’s the jerseys that makes the soccer possible, rather than the other way around.

Finally got myself a Basel shirt, four years after studying there

https://www.macron.com/media/catalog/product/cache/3609b09b553c05116542f0fc5098fc14/4/b/4b0dcec075f3f83ff9e939a6d0504e4e58559501_1.jpg

Font choice on the new German shirt for the Euros is quite something.

Historisch gesehen sehr fragwürdig solche Trikots zur HeimEM zu ermöglichen @DFB @adidas pic.twitter.com/KE69jAyIQ9

— Michael König (@08MiKowitsch15) March 29, 2024