Monaco’s eight-year kit design
It sounds like a trick question, and of course it is – when did a club follow a kit that lasted six years with one that lasted for eight years?… Read more »
Category: Rarities and Oddities
BRexit
A two-off today rather than another instalment in our series on kits that only ever had one outing. Blackburn Rovers had a slightly new home kit for 2003-04, in that… Read more »
Bayer Leverkusen revive a recent tradition
To mark the club’s return to the Champions League, the new Bayer Leverkusen home kit for 2018-19 is red. According to the Werkself (‘Factory Eleven’) online store: The new home… Read more »
Five rings, three stripes – Brazil in adidas at the Olympics
The idea of Brazil wearing adidas isn’t completely crazy – they wore the German firm’s kits in the late 1970s and Pyro On The Pitch takes an in-depth look at… Read more »
Purple pain: a whole Lotto trouble
This post is another in our link-ups with Classic Soccer Jerseys – do please check them out The early 1990s signalled a bolder approach from kit designers and Italy was… Read more »
Institutionalisation
Erwan is a Frenchman who has developed a soft spot for Northern Irish side Institute. He got in touch with a couple of interesting kit observations It would be fair… Read more »
Struggling to Kepa count
Last season, it took until April for Chelsea goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga to wear a third different kit. The Spaniard wore green for much of the campaign with orange favoured as… Read more »
Manche Dieu!
We will admit to some trepidation ahead of what is a post focusing mainly on Nike sleeve designs, given that this tweet last year prompted one user to speculate that… Read more »
When Germany went into the red
Thanks to Martyn Ping, Simon Treanor and Rick Joshua for their assistance on this – Rick’s site Schwarz Und Weiß, an English-language site dedicated to die Mannschaft, is well worth… Read more »
Midweek Mashup – Liverpool, 2019
As we saw in this article, the last time before 2019-20 that Liverpool wore change socks with their first-choice shirt was in 2007-08 at Portsmouth: However, twice already in the… Read more »
