Manuel Neuer’s having fünf
Thanks to Martyn Ping, Christian Bracksiek and Daniel Kinder on the Facebook group Football Kits The World Over for providing information Nowadays, most goalkeepers will wear three kits in a… Read more »
Category: Goalkeepers
A unique three and in for Monaco
Obviously, you may be aware that we have a fondness for adidas goalkeeper shirts. Part 11 will follow soon and this can be considered a spin-off of the series. Thanks… Read more »
Triangles and stripes – Umbro’s goalkeeper offerings 1991-93
Further reading: as always, The Glove Bag has been an invaluable resource, while we’ve basically taken the ball from Seb Patrick and run with it. The intention was to write… Read more »
The evolution of adidas goalkeeper shirts – Part 10
See previous modules, and other goalkeeping articles, here. We did say in the last entry in this series, Part 9 back in December, we did say that this edition would… Read more »
Liverpool blue and Everton red?
As we said in the piece looking at the seasons where Arsenal had four goalkeeper shirts, netminders have too many options nowadays. Three options per team is standard, usually in… Read more »
The evolution of adidas goalkeeper shirts – Part 9
You’re forgiven if you had feared that this series had become our great unfinished symphony, given that the last instalment, Part 8, was back in July. There were various different… Read more »
Seven seasons where Arsenal’s goalkeepers wore four different coloured shirts
I like goalkeepers. In my ‘real’ job as a sports journalist (incredibly, I have to earn money elsewhere as nobody wants to pay me to draw kits), I often find… 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 »
The evolution of adidas goalkeeper shirt designs – Part 7
Usual recap: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6 The latest addition to our series plays something of a sweeper role, rounding up those designs of… Read more »
Umbro ‘Hampden’ – a goalkeeping classic
Regular readers of the blog will have noticed an affinity for goalkeeper shirts, most notably how the adidas designs developed from the early 80s onwards. The German company didn’t have… Read more »