A double-shot as it’s been a while since we’ve had an FKF and also because it’s Christmas.
As well as running the Kit Geek site, Gav Hope is one of our co-hosts on The Football Kit Podcast along with Les Motherby of Hull City Kits.
Quite a long time ago, he tweeted admiringly about the Finland kit that was worn at Euro 2020 and Michael Young replied that a Sweden version would look good, to which Gav responded that it would also be nice to see Denmark and Norway get the treatment.
We decided to do them all, and Iceland too.
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We’re assuming that the inclusion of a darker blue along with the traditional royal shade for Finland was due to Fifa and Uefa rules on the representation of national flags on kits and so have added different flourishes for the others.
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Most are self-explanatory – the red for Sweden is because the colour used to appear on their crest.
While we have often featured international kits in FKF in the past, non-league teams have been rare. That’s not due to snobbery on our part – when it comes to illustrating strips, no league is too big, no club is too small – but rather because requests have been thin on the ground.
If you know your non-league nicknames, the Instagram handle @irishpitman will be a giveaway that Seán Paul is a Hednesford Town supporter.
He got in touch, saying: “I always wondered what our kit would have been if we kept with Patrick for the 1996-97 rather than switching to Myona.”
Using elements from real Patrick kits from that era as worn by Alloa Athletic, Cambridge United, Peterborough United and West Bromwich Albion, he provided mock-ups of home, away and third kits as well as a special strip for the FA Cup tie against Middlesbrough in 1997.
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We have recreated them and we hope he, and you, like them.
As always, feedback is welcome, along with requests for future FKFs – comment below or tweet @museumofjerseys.
