All change for Chelsea and Manchester City
Nowadays, the first-choice kits of Chelsea and Manchester City aren’t deemed to cause a clash. This season, all matches between the sides have been royal blue v sky blue. City… Read more »
Category: Rarities and Oddities
A miscellany of ‘Milan United’ kits
In 1955, the Inter-Cites Fairs Cup, the forerunner of the Uefa Cup/Europa League began, and its USP was that each city could only enter one team. Many, including the finalists… Read more »
Great one-offs – Real Madrid, 1999
In 1998, Real Madrid returned to adidas after more than a decade away, having had their kits made by Hummel and Kelme in between. Having gone as safe as they… Read more »
Three-season wonders
We were delighted when Philip Marriott got in touch with an idea for an article, looking at kits which have had a three-year lifespan since the Premier League began. Over… Read more »
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 »
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 »
