Origin Stories – River Plate
Tonight, Buenos Aires rivals Boca Juniors and River Plate clash in the final of the Copa Libertadores for the first time. Ahead of the first leg, we decided to look… Read more »
Category: Kit history
Schrödinger’s kits – when adidas’s two generations collided
The summer of 1991 brought a real change from adidas. There was a new logo, with the adidas Equipment marque replacing the trefoil, while aggressive kit branding saw the three-stripe… Read more »
Fantasy Kit Friday – Chelsea in adidas, 1994
We must admit that we weren’t exactly sure what Chaz_CFC meant when he asked for a Chelsea version of the adidas mid-90s ‘poncho’ design, but then it became clear: This… Read more »
Great one-offs – Hamburg, Schalke and Stuttgart, 1992
Technically, all 18 Bundesliga clubs wore one-off kits on the weekend of December 18, 1992. Following the racially motivated Rostock-Lichtenhagen riots the previous August, it was decided that teams would eschew… Read more »
Premier League kit-tracker – Gameweek 10
Saturday, October 27 Brighton & Hove Albion 1 Wolverhampton Wanderers 0 Fulham 0 Bournemouth 3 One might have expected Bournemouth to give a first airing to their green third kit,… Read more »
Season’s meetings, no. 9 – Liverpool v Manchester United, 1978-79
See here for previous entries in this series These two sites were invaluable in terms of research: United Kits and Liverpool Shirt History At the outset of this series, we said… Read more »
The changing colours of patriot games
Jon Jones wrote this article some time ago and it’s only our own laziness which has prevented it from being published before now. The tardiness doesn’t dilute the interest therein,… Read more »
Liverpool’s gradual switch to all-red
Liverpool lore has it that the switch to an all-red kit came in a European Cup game against Anderlect on November 25, 1964. According to the recollections of Ian St… Read more »
Roberto Mancini – striker and kit-designer
The first time I saw a Sampdoria third kit was in 1993, a picture of the newly signed Ruud Gullit in Match magazine – possibly from the same game as this… Read more »
The history of Matchwinner, part 1
By day, Ray Hyland is a top film-maker; by night he’s a sound judge of football kits and when he suggested a look at the impact of Matchwinner, we were… Read more »