Midweek Mashup – Leeds United, 1987
Last year, we featured Leeds wearing red shorts as part of this series, but it wasn’t such a strange situation back then as the club used the colour for its… Read more »
Month: October 2018
The changing colours of patriot games
Jon Jones wrote this article some time ago and it’s only our own laziness which has prevented it from being published before now. The tardiness doesn’t dilute the interest therein,… Read more »
Great one-offs – Wales, 2017
Thanks to two great Welsh kit aficionados, Jon Jones for the suggestion and Simon Shakeshaft for further information Most of the examples in this series date from beyond the recent… Read more »
Liverpool’s gradual switch to all-red
Liverpool lore has it that the switch to an all-red kit came in a European Cup game against Anderlect on November 25, 1964. According to the recollections of Ian St… Read more »
Fantasy Kit Friday – Admirdas
Apologies to Andrew Rockall, who first suggested this concept back in June but holidays made us forget it and it took a gentle reminder last week from him. Basically, he… Read more »
Making the case for nostaglia – literally!
Based in Edinburgh, Mark Boyd (pictured below) is the man behind Nostalgia Cases, selling mobile phone covers in a huge range of different retro kit designs. We were delighted to… Read more »
Midweek Mashup – Republic of Ireland, 2004
We have seen in previous articles how games against France in Paris led to interesting all-green kits for the Republic of Ireland, with a complete adidas kit borrowed in 1973… Read more »
Great one-offs – Ajax, 1982
Thanks once again to Dirk Maas for his assistance A real oddity this one – a change shirt worn when the team had two other alternatives, as well as an… Read more »
Roberto Mancini – striker and kit-designer
The first time I saw a Sampdoria third kit was in 1993, a picture of the newly signed Ruud Gullit in Match magazine – possibly from the same game as this… Read more »
The history of Matchwinner, part 1
By day, Ray Hyland is a top film-maker; by night he’s a sound judge of football kits and when he suggested a look at the impact of Matchwinner, we were… Read more »
