Great one-offs – lone Rangers
Jay Mansfield is back – see here for his wonderful blog featuring lots more Rangers content and here for his previous MoJ output In the occasional hit-and-miss world of football… Read more »
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Cold War Classics, no. 12 – Albania v Spain
Another entry in the ever-excellent series by Joey Smith – see here for his site, featuring plenty more quality content See here for the previous parts of this series Background… Read more »
The worst colour-clashes across football, rugby, Aussie Rules and Gaelic games
It wasn’t a great weekend if you’re the kind of person who likes competing teams to wear distinguishable kits. On Saturday, we had this… Norwich v Wolves has the worst… Read more »
Midweek Mashup – Republic of Ireland, 2004
We have seen in previous articles how games against France in Paris led to interesting all-green kits for the Republic of Ireland, with a complete adidas kit borrowed in 1973… Read more »
Great one-offs – Liverpool, 2019
It’s not generally the done thing to flag the use of a fourth-choice goalkeeper shirt – we had to do the digging on Arsenal’s instances ourselves, for example – but… Read more »
World Cup Classics – Australia, 1974
While they don’t feature on the Australian flag, green and gold are the country’s colours when it comes to sport. First adopted by the country’s cricketers in 1899, they were… 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 »
Ten World Cup away kits which weren’t used
This article is a collaboration with the excellent RB Jerseys The 2018 World Cup ends today with 30 of the 32 teams having used both their first and second-choice shirts… Read more »
World Cup Classics no. 3 – Netherlands change kit, 2006
Previous inclusions – Sweden 1994 and Belgium 1982 Whenever the England national team’s kit is discussed, there is a variation on Godwin’s Law in that, eventually, somebody will proffer the… 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 »
