Liverpool haven’t been in the news much lately, so we felt that that needed to be rectified.
It’s coming up on 12 years since the club last wore adidas kits, though of course our semi-regular Fantasy Kit Friday series with Simon Treanor has reimagined how they might have looked in the three stripes in the intervening period.
The second stint the Reds had with the German firm lasted for six seasons, 2006 until 2012, and in that time there were five different white kits produced. Our poll is a simple one – which of those strips do you think was the best?
When Liverpool returned to adidas after a decade in 2006, the new away kit was all-yellow but there was a white option that referenced the green of the early 1990s.
Famously worn in a win over Barcelona at Camp Nou – with special cup numbering – it was an asymmetrical iteration of the popular United template in the Teamgeist family of kits.
For 2007-08, white was promoted to the second kit, with red restored as the secondary colour and the traditional black shorts employed. It used the adidas Onore design while the black third was of the Golpe variety.
There was no white strip in 2008-09 – instead, the grey of the late 1980s was recalled for the away kit – but, while the 2009-10 away, worn in mashed-up form in the infamous ‘beach ball’ match, was charcoal, it was partnered by a minimalist white kit trimmed in red.
Intended to be all-white, it was only seen in that format in the Champions League, with black change shorts used for all four Premier League outings.
While Liverpool were still on a two-season cycle for home kits, alternative strips had become one-season wonders and for 2010-11 the new away kit added gold trim to the red and black mix in a tri-colour pinstripe design.
It was to prove to be the last white adidas Liverpool kit featuring red trim, but there was time for one more offering, with a more unusual accent colour, before Warrior took over the contract.
The dual-coloured diagonal stripes were inspired by the tracksuit design of the mid-1980s, while the inclusion of blue was intended as a reference to the halved home kit used when the club was formed in 1892.
So, which of the five was the best?
