Midweek Mashup – Liverpool, 2008
There was certainly a familiar look to the new away strip launched by Liverpool in 2008. Having returned to adidas two years previously, the club were given a kit which… Read more »
Month: October 2018
Premier League kit-tracker – Gameweek 10
Saturday, October 27 Brighton & Hove Albion 1 Wolverhampton Wanderers 0 Fulham 0 Bournemouth 3 One might have expected Bournemouth to give a first airing to their green third kit,… Read more »
Season in Kits: Chelsea, 1963-64
Nik Yeomans is the oracle on Chelsea kits and has already proven to be an invaluable source of research on a number of articles. He has now written a series… Read more »
Fantasy Kit Friday – Netherlands in Umbro, 1990
Today’s request comes from Kieran Casey of Sartorial Soccer, a lovely repository of articles on kits and well worth checking out When you’re asked, “Can you show the world my… Read more »
Premier League kit-tracker – Gameweeks 8 and 9
Apologies for the delay in getting these up – we were struck with a paralysis about how to best render the Chelsea third shirt. Hopefully, future updates will be more… Read more »
Midweek Mashup – Leicester City, 2017
For Leicester City’s title-winning season of 2015-16, the club reverted to an all-blue home kit for the first time in seven years. With events of that historic campaign presumably playing… Read more »
Recalling a grey night for the All Blacks
You might have heard about the colour-clash problems in the Heineken Champions Cup rugby union game between Cardiff Blues and Glasgow Warriors at the weekend. Essentially, the Blues were in… Read more »
Season’s meetings, no. 9 – Liverpool v Manchester United, 1978-79
See here for previous entries in this series These two sites were invaluable in terms of research: United Kits and Liverpool Shirt History At the outset of this series, we said… Read more »
Fantasy Kit Friday – Manchester City late 80s/early 90s adidas
Of late, we’ve noted how some teams, like Bayern Munich, Germany, Real Madrid and Benfica are almost adidas ‘lifers’ and others, such as Paris St-Germain (kind of), Celtic, Inter Milan… Read more »
Cold War Classics no.9 – Hungary vs England, 1981
See here for previous entries in this series, by Joey Smith of Pyro on The Pitch Besides the interesting dynamic that occurs when national football teams representing rival political ideologies… Read more »