Fantasy Kit Friday, 13-4-18 – Home Nations special
The tardiness of today’s offering should hopefully be compensated by the fact that it’s a bumper edition. It’s the melding of two independent requests – Paul Thomas asked for a… Read more »
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Nathan’s Top 5s – Best Mashups
This is a guest post by Nathan Patrick The first instalment of this series will focus on the five best kit mashups in football history, that have come about to… Read more »
Arsenal’s socksy football recalls a 20-year-old mystery
On Thursday night, Arsenal made it through to the Europa League semi-finals as a 2-2 draw away to CSKA Moscow earned them a 6-3 aggregate victory. In that game, Arsenal… Read more »
Cold War Classic no. 6 – Italy v Yugoslavia, 1980
Joey Smith is back with another instalment in this fine series, see here for previous entries and his blog is here. Take it away, Joey. Thanks to world renowned kit expert Simon… Read more »
Midweek Mashup – Cardiff City, 2014
In 2012, the Cardiff City ownership moved away from 104 years of blue home shirts to switch to red. The decision has since been reversed, it meant that the club’s… Read more »
World Cup Classics – USA, 1950
Having boycotted the previous three World Cups, England had high hopes as they travelled to Brazil take part for the first time in 1950. They were 3-1 favourites to win… Read more »
Season’s meetings, no. 4 – Leeds v VfB Stuttgart, 1992-93
See here for previous entries It’s back to the 1990s again for this series, and, as with the Ajax-AC Milan example, we’re looking at three meetings in Europe’s top club… Read more »
Fantasy Kit Friday, 6-4-18 – Arsenal/Tottenham crossover, 1993
Back in January, we did an Aston Villa/Birmingham City mid-1980s swap and in the comments section, Chris made a request to do similar with the two North London sides. Last Wednesday… Read more »
League of Ireland Kit of The Week – Bohemians, 2006
Bohemian FC, or Bohemians, initially wore white shirts with two red stripes and black shorts, but in the early 20th century that was changed to the now-familiar red and black… Read more »
Midweek Mashup – Bayern Munich, 2001
Much of the information below comes from the excellent Bavarian Football Works site Obviously, this weekly feature deals mainly with shorts and socks changes, but as we saw with Barcelona’s… Read more »
