Lookalikes, no. 2 – Derby County and Nottingham Forest, 1989
See here for the first entry in this series In the summer of 1989, Derby County and Umbro launched a new change strip. Having had a yellow away shirt in… Read more »
Tag: Nottingham Forest
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 »
Umbro’s new GK direction in 1993
As mentioned in the article looking at Umbro’s goalkeeper offerings in 1991-92 and 1992-93, the 1993 FA Cup final saw a new style premiered. Having worn the chalkstripe style during… Read more »
Forest feeling short-changed
In his recent articles on change shorts, Jay Mansfield provided no shortage of food for thought and helped us to jog our memories somewhat. Included among his many mashup examples… Read more »
More Mansfield mashups
Two weeks ago, we published a guest article by Jay Mansfield, categorising the acceptability of various types of alternate shorts. It proved so popular that he’s back for more I… Read more »
Fantasy Kit Friday – Nottingham Forest, 1992
Not all FKF requests make perfect sense, but we are nonetheless happy to carry them out. Then there are ones that just fit perfectly: During Nottingham Forest’s tenure with adidas,… 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 – Admirdas
Apologies to Andrew Rockall, who first suggested this concept back in June but holidays made us forget it and it took a gentle reminder last week from him. Basically, he… 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 »
Nottingham Forest 1986-88 – not far off a grand slam of combinations
More Forest interchangeability content here. In 1986, Nottingham Forest returned to wearing Umbro kits after nine years with adidas and playing in U-Win (seemingly an Umbro sub-brand) in 1976-77. While… Read more »
