Cork City put kit style in the hands of the fans
Competitions to design teams’ strips are nothing new among what you might call ‘smaller’ teams – and adidas have got in on the act now too. At most clubs, the… Read more »
Category: Kit history
The evolution of adidas goalkeeper shirt designs – part 3
For those just joining us – feel free to read Part 1 and Part 2. As mentioned previously, the timeline of changes isn’t all that clean. France’s Joel Bats wore… Read more »
1991 Roy Of The Rovers competition to design Melchester Rovers’ kits
We’ve already looked at the competition held to design the Melchester Rovers away kit when Roy Of The Rovers re-tooled itself as a monthly comic in 1993, but this wasn’t the… Read more »
The evolution of adidas goalkeeper shirt designs – Part 2
It’s a little later than planned, but we’re ready to crack on with the newest instalment of our series on adidas goalkeeper shirt designs. Part 1 can be read here…. Read more »
How Blackrock and Glen Rovers have resolved (and not resolved) their colour-clash
Note: The bulk of this appeared in the Evening Echo on August 2. The two most successful clubs in Cork senior hurling, Blackrock and Glen Rovers (32 and 26… Read more »
Roy Of The Readers’ Designs
This week 23 years ago, football comic Roy Of The Rovers was relaunched as a monthly, the weekly version having stopped in March when the fate of protagonist Roy Race was left unresolved… Read more »
They’ll always have (rare kits in) Paris
As alluded to in the recent blog post on adidas goalkeeper shirt designs, the Republic of Ireland first officially wore kits by the German maker in 1986 – however, it… Read more »
The evolution of adidas goalkeeper shirt designs – Part 1
A summary perusal of some of the other articles on this site – or a glance at the tag-cloud – will quickly reveal an inherent bias towards kits made by… Read more »
Barcelona: the Kappa years
Kappa only made the Barcelona kits for six years, but it was a very important period in the club’s sartorial history, taking it from the almost-too-stable constancy provided by local… Read more »
Serie A 1990-91: Recap
Finally completed, here are all of the home and away kits from the 1990-91 Serie A season together. You can read more detailed posts with the teams divided into five… Read more »
