Ireland rugby jersey history, 1987-2017
New Ireland rugby shirts have become an annual event, with the kit for the coming season launched on Friday. Go to the IRFU website for the marketing spiel, or go… Read more »
Author Archives: denishurley
Three stripes and you’re out!
This article first appeared in the Evening Echo on August 2, 2017 Nowadays, the Cork GAA kit, like so many others, features three stripes down the sleeves and on the shorts. From time… Read more »
Midweek Mashup – Aston Villa, 1989
For Aston Villa, sky-blue shorts are a regular go-to alternative when required. A while back, we looked at how they were one of the options in 2011-12 season – and… Read more »
Nottingham Forest 1986-88 – not far off a grand slam of combinations
More Forest interchangeability content here. In 1986, Nottingham Forest returned to wearing Umbro kits after nine years with adidas and playing in U-Win (seemingly an Umbro sub-brand) in 1976-77. While… Read more »
Fantasy Kit Friday, 28-7-17
A nice confluence of events for today’s addition to the FKF canon. Daniel Gellatley is a top-notch graphic designer – he must be if Simon Shakeshaft uses him for images relating… Read more »
Midweek Mashup – Rangers, 1996
When a team has just two main colours on its home kit, changing shorts is easy – for instance, Everton’s all-blue alternative kit is quite familiar. Some teams have more… Read more »
Fantasy Kit Friday, 21-7-17
It’s just over two months since Andrew Taylor got in touch with a request to redo Nottingham Forest’s mid-90s Umbro outfits as Aston Villa kits. Obviously, the 90s were fairly full-on… Read more »
Celtic, Hibernian and the overall clash
Credit to The Celtic Wiki for having the relevant information for us to work with. Colour-clashes and how to solve them – or not – has long been something of interest… Read more »
Midweek Mashup – Bulgaria, 1994
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Bulgaria’s adidas home kit tended to consist of white shirts with red trim and green shorts with white trim. For the 1994 World… Read more »
The evolution of adidas goalkeeper shirt designs – Part 8
Catch-up – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7. We’ve moved into the early 90s and this instalment is primarily focused on the… Read more »