We need to talk about templates
The past fortnight has seen Nike officially launch the new kits for their main international contracts, to be worn at Euro 2016 and the Copa America. Essentially, each offering is… Read more »
Author Archives: denishurley
Serie A 1990-91, Part 2
There were three blue-and-black-striped teams in the 1990-91 Serie A, and blue and red was just as popular, with Bologna, Cagliari and Genoa mixing the colours. Bologna were in their… Read more »
Serie A 1990-91, Part 1
Real-life work has prevented us from doing this as quickly as we’d like, but better late than never, here is the first tranche of our ode to the kits of… Read more »
Cork feeling the blues
In Gaelic games, Cork’s famous red and white kit is one of the most instantly recognisable, but that hasn’t always been the case. Tomorrow night, March 12, they play Kilkenny… Read more »
The best-dressed league season?
It was a question we threw out on Twitter earlier, one difficult to describe in non-clunky language. Planning a series of posts on what we think is the best-ever season… Read more »
A certain kind of Neuer-osis
It should be an inviolable fact of football that the one colour a goalkeeper never wears is that of his team’s home kit. If teams only changed when they clashed… Read more »
The guessing game
Umbro Ireland have been building up to Friday’s launch of the new Republic of Ireland shirt on Twitter: Thank you to everyone who is Pre Ordering the Ireland kit at… Read more »
Change isn’t always good
We’re conscious of not stepping on the toes of our friends at Kit Clashes or Away Kit Watch, but this needed recording. There is a full midweek Premier League programme across… Read more »
Sligo continue to defy GAA rules
Sligo are one of only two Irish counties not to wear O’Neills kit (Waterford are the other). In 2014, they signed a new deal with Kukri, the company’s first foray… Read more »
O’Neills catalogue, mid-1990s
In our precocious teenage years, we wrote to O’Neills, seeking to wow them with our design skills and possibly secure some summer work. A nice reply was received and the notion… Read more »