Queens Park Rangers: the adidas years, part 2 – 1979-82
Huge thanks to Chris Guy of the RetroQPR Twitter account and to Simon Ståål for their help See here for Part 1 of this series, which covered 1975-79 Having had… Read more »
Tag: adidas
Midweek Mashup – Flamengo, 2014
By Samarony Lima Brazilian club Flamengo’s nickname is the Rubro-Negro (‘Red-Black’) and the club traditionally uses their hooped home kit with white shorts and hooped socks. Sometimes, black shorts have… Read more »
Scottish League Classics – Dundee United, 1983-85
Having claimed their first, and so far only, Scottish Premier Division title in 1983, Dundee United celebrated with the launch of a first new kit in six seasons. This was… Read more »
Basel’s halve-nots
This season has brought a notable change to home kit of Swiss side FC Basel. While the club are normally clad in red and blue halved shirts, for 2019-20 they… Read more »
Fantasy Kit Friday – Manchester United adidas 2002
Today’s request comes from Riccardo Giannini. He had previously asked for a mid-1990s AC Milan adidas set and this is in a similar vein. In 2015, Manchester United and adidas… Read more »
Turkish delights
The adidas Equipment era of the early 1990s was characterised by exuberant three-stripe branding but one exception was Turkey. While their 1992 kits featured the new fabric pattern and v-neck… Read more »
Fantasy Kit Friday – Nottingham Forest mid-1990s adidas
In the wake of last week’s offering, Jim Hearson had an idea: While we're in the mid-90s, it was Forest's peak in my lifetime and the furthest we've got in… Read more »
Season in Kits: Liverpool, 2007-08
At the time of writing, the 2007-08 season remains the last time that Liverpool played a first-team game where red shirts were worn without forming part of an all-red kit… Read more »
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 »
Cold War Classics, no. 13 – Netherlands v Bulgaria, 1974
Despite being on opposing sides of Europe in geographical, political and economic terms, World Cup 1974 Group 3 competitors Bulgaria and the Netherlands did have a couple of things in… Read more »
