Aston Villa short-changed in the 1980s – part 1
Thanks to Dave Hitchman for his help The 1980s were a period of flux for Aston Villa from a kits point of view. While the club’s first Le Coq Sportif… Read more »
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Fantasy Kit Friday – Aston Villa Hummel extension, 1990
Aston Villa have had two three-year spells with Hummel, 1987-90 and 2004-07, and today’s FKF features a request to see how they would have looked if they had stayed longer… Read more »
The Mansfield Scale of Alternate Shorts Compatibility
Jay Mansfield’s blog features more than a few thought-provoking pieces on kits and we were delighted when he suggested a thorough classification of mashups The key element of a mashup… Read more »
Fantasy Kit Friday – Aston Villa adidas, 1986
Dave Hitchman’s Aston Villa shirts account is a great follow on Twitter, with some very interesting nuggets of information as well as top-quality pictures of shirts of all kinds worn… Read more »
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 »
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 »
