Triangles and stripes – Umbro’s goalkeeper offerings 1991-93
Further reading: as always, The Glove Bag has been an invaluable resource, while we’ve basically taken the ball from Seb Patrick and run with it. The intention was to write… Read more »
Tag: Aston Villa
Great one-offs – Aston Villa, 1994
Having denied Manchester United a domestic treble in winning the 1993-94 Coca-Cola Cup, Aston Villa qualified for the following season’s UEFA Cup and were drawn with Inter Milan. This was… Read more »
Fantasy Kit Friday, 26-1-18 – Aston Villa/Birmingham 1987 crossover
Birmingham City fan Terry Griffin came up with an idea… @museumofjerseys #FantasyKitFriday how about a swap of these two designs from 1987 pic.twitter.com/uoCndqs2GZ — Terry Griffin (@mrhappy1875) January 5, 2018… Read more »
Midweek Mashup – Aston Villa, 1989
For Aston Villa, sky-blue shorts are a regular go-to alternative when required. A while back, we looked at how they were one of the options in 2011-12 season – and… Read more »
Fantasy Kit Friday, 21-7-17
It’s just over two months since Andrew Taylor got in touch with a request to redo Nottingham Forest’s mid-90s Umbro outfits as Aston Villa kits. Obviously, the 90s were fairly full-on… Read more »
Fantasy Kit Friday, 6-1-17
Going by the first edition of Fantasy Kit Friday for 2017, you might think that there’s some alphabetical theme, but such levels of thought didn’t go into it, trust us…. Read more »
Liverpool v Aston Villa, 1993 – an impromptu referee kit-change
When the Premier League began in 1992, one of the notable new initiatives was the change to referees’ kits. Whereas black had been used by officials for as long as… Read more »
Away kits at home in the Premier League era
It should be easy, solving kit-clashes, but as our post on the League of Ireland showed, it isn’t always the case. In that regard, it’s surely a success of sorts… Read more »
Aston Villa’s nine kit combinations in 2011-12
Anyone familiar with us knows that we like when a team’s home and away kits form a ‘set’, giving mix-and-match options. AS Roma in 2000-01 are a great example of… Read more »