Weekend Mashup – Arsenal at Blackpool, 1970
This evening (Saturday), Arsenal travel to Bloomfield Road to take on Blackpool in the third round of the FA Cup. While the teams clashed in the Carabao Cup at the… Read more »
Category: Rarities and Oddities
Nothing like an Irish welcome – twice
For more on the kit-happenings of Ireland’s qualifying campaign for the 1994 World Cup, see this fine article At club level, you’ll occasionally hear of hitches with kits, usually sorted… Read more »
Dortmund pay tribute to Ruhr mining community
Thanks to Kieran Holden for making us aware of the rare goalkeeper shirt Borussia Dortmund will spend Christmas on top of the Bundesliga, six points clear of Bayern Munich. There… Read more »
Brian Little’s hoopy days at Darlington
Thanks to Craig Stoddart of The Northern Echo for his help on this The summer of 1989 saw Darlington out of the Football League for the first time since the… Read more »
Big (kitmaker inconsistencies) in Japan
Regular readers of our comments section will have seen the contributions of Lucas Santos, who has provided some invaluable input. Here, he looks at how Japan often had different manufacturers’… Read more »
The USA’s last adidas kit
Since the beginning of 1995 – a friendly against Uruguay in Dallas in March – the USA have worn Nike kits. What were their last adidas kits? Well, we’re guessing… Read more »
PSV’s bending of Champions League sponsorship rules
It’s something of a shame that PSV Eindhoven’s 1992-93 away kit didn’t receive wider attention. While the home kit remained the same as it had been since the spring of… Read more »
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 »
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 »
How Arsenal’s return to white sleeves inadvertently led to the creation of an FA Cup kit
As with all Arsenal content here, the primary source is the inestimable The Arsenal Shirt, by Simon Shakeshaft and James Elkin The 1960s were something of a lost decade for… Read more »