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 »
Tag: Scotland
International Classics – Scotland, 1994-96
Thanks to the guys at Scottish Footie Kits for suggesting this Apologies to our Scottish readers – the intention was to post this before today’s game away to Kazakhstan as… Read more »
Great one-offs – Scotland, 1954
A while back, we featured a rare Scotland kit from the 1950s, the game against Switzerland in 1957 when they borrowed orange shorts from their hosts so as to make… Read more »
Recalling a grey night for the All Blacks
You might have heard about the colour-clash problems in the Heineken Champions Cup rugby union game between Cardiff Blues and Glasgow Warriors at the weekend. Essentially, the Blues were in… Read more »
Cold War Classics no.9 – Hungary vs England, 1981
See here for previous entries in this series, by Joey Smith of Pyro on The Pitch Besides the interesting dynamic that occurs when national football teams representing rival political ideologies… 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 »
1990 World Cup – all of the kits worn
You’ll notice we have the word ‘worn’ in the title – change kits which didn’t get game-time aren’t included. That’s preferable to including some and then missing others we mightn’t… Read more »
1990 World Cup kit-tracker – Group C
See here for Group A and Group B Brazil 2 Sweden 1 This was to be Brazil’s last tournament wearing kit made by Topper, whose headquarters are in Rio. The… Read more »
Fantasy Kit Friday, 13-4-18 – Home Nations special
The tardiness of today’s offering should hopefully be compensated by the fact that it’s a bumper edition. It’s the melding of two independent requests – Paul Thomas asked for a… Read more »
Midweek Mashup – Scotland, 1957
Some of the mashups featured in this series have been aesthetically pleasing, others not so much; generally, though, all of the items will be part of the club or country’s… Read more »
