While the 1980 European Championship provided a neat 50-50 split in terms of teams having to wear alternative strips, the next edition of the tournament,...
European Championship Classics
This series was mentioned in this article last week as being imminent but you know how things go – the discovery that Spain used to...
Whether by choice or based upon an edict from governing bodies classifying orange as a ‘light’ colour, six of the last seven Netherlands change kits...
In 1999, Kappa took over from Nike as the producer of the Italy national team kit. The company’s first offerings were nice and traditional but,...
We all remember the game between the Netherlands and the USSR at Euro 88, don’t we? The fact that it’s Vasily Rats of the Soviet...
Memories can be very subjective things, meaning that we often diminish the impact of the partner we had immediately before the one true love. It’s...
This is the first instalment in this series to feature a competition winner – see here for the previous entries. While there wasn’t much in...
When Umbro launched the new Scotland kit in 1991, there more quite a few noticeable differences. The cut was baggier, with longer shorts than previously,...
As one of the major Nike sides, Portugal had to undergo the same Nike Vapor makeover as everybody else in 2016; when they won that...
Hopefully you’ll forgive the self-plagiarism but, before Euro 2016, The Irish Examiner asked us to evaluate the kits on show and we gushed about Spain’s:...