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Midweek Mashup – Chelsea, 2001

15 Wednesday Aug 2018

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In 1992, Chelsea reverted to white socks with their home kit, with the club’s matchday programme for the game against Oldham Athletic on August 15, 1992 – the first of the new Premier League – acknowledging that this was based on the wishes of a majority of the club’s supporters.

SOCK IT TO ‘EM, YOU BLUES

In a summer when the first-choice kit was not due to change, a change has come due to public demand. Tradition has been restored.

The white socks worn so proudly through the 1960’s, ’70s and early 80s, but which were dropped in favour of blue socks in 1985, have returned.

About time too, and don’t they look wonderful!

Chelsea have retained them since then, but obviously there are game away to teams who also have white socks where a change is needed. Generally, these alternative socks have been blue but, on occasion, red and yellow pairs have been used too.

Having changed socks themselves, you might think that Chelsea would be cognisant of others doing so but, on the second weekend of 2001-02, they were caught out by just such an occurrence.

Hosting Newcastle United in their opening game, Chelsea wore their new Umbro kit and then travelled to face Southampton the following week, with yellow-topped blue socks worn instead of the white.

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They looked like they could have been an alternative set for the 2000-01 away kit, which was retained as a third for 01-02, but that wouldn’t have made much sense given that the new away strip was designed to be perfectly interchangeable with the home.

A closer look at the socks – primarily the ‘Saints’ wordmark on the front – reveals their true provenance. Southampton had worn black socks as first choice from 1999-2001 but had reverted to white for 2001-02 and Chelsea hadn’t realised, meaning they travelled with just their white sets – and had to wear the Saints’ 2000-01 away socks instead.

As Southampton produced their own kits at the time – meaning retro versions are more accurate than most clubs’, with makers’ logos often missing – there was at least the consolation of no rival of Umbro being promoted.

The switch didn’t negatively affect Chelsea, though, with goals from Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink and Mario Stanic earning Claudio Ranieri’s side a 2-0 win. Later in the season, they would wear the away socks with the home shirts and shorts as and when required.

Premier League 2018-19 kit-tracker – Gameweek 1

11 Saturday Aug 2018

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Hopefully you saw the World Cup kit-tracker in June and July – following the success of that (you have to take our word for it, we accept), we have decided to do the same for the Premier League season.

This will be a collaboration with Football Kit Geek, who does such great work on his blog.

Gameweek 1, August 10-12

Friday

Manchester United 2 Leicester City 1

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Having lost 4-3 to Arsenal in the opening game of 2017-18, Leicester again got off to a Friday night losing start away from home. Paul Pogba put United ahead with an early penalty before Luke Shaw doubled the lead while Jamie Vardy got a late consolation for the Foxes.

Both sides were in adidas – the first time since 1989 that United started the campaign in an all-adidas clash – with United in the black shorts and primarily red socks which are now first-choice. Goalkeeper David de Gea wore an all-green kit similar that which he had for Spain at the World Cup but in a different shade.

Leicester have taken to wearing change kits when no clash exists in recent years, but they were in all-blue for their first game in the three stripes. White was probably not the best choice of colour for the sponsors’ logos on Kasper Schmeichel’s shirt.

Saturday

Newcastle United 1 Tottenham Hotspur 2

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For the second year in a row and third time in seven seasons, Tottenham began their campaign at St James’ Park.

As with this campaign, Tottenham have had navy change strips for the other two opening weekends on Tyneside – they wore navy-white-white there in 2012-13 and in 2017-18. On occasion, though, they have worn their home kits there too, as in 2000-01 and 2005-06.

This time, though, Spurs wore their new third kit, somewhere between teal and turquoise, featuring a satellite view of North London on the body. While Hugo Lloris wore a Nike kit in the same style as that which he had as France won the World Cup, it was in orange rather than yellow or pink.

As previously mentioned, Newcastle’s kit is notable for the inclusion of white socks, while red numbers are retained on the striped backs and also on the black shorts.

Sunday

Liverpool 4 West Ham United 0

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Arsenal 0 Manchester City 2

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When Legia Warsaw wore kits by three different makers in the one season

17 Tuesday Jul 2018

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  • This article has been greatly helped by legia.info.pl, which is a superb resource

I write this article in the Legia Warsaw Municipal Stadium, as I await the start of the Champions League first qualifying round second-leg game between the home side and Cork City.

Legia’s traditional colours are green, white and red, like City, and they have similarly worn them in varying patterns over the years. Currently, they tend to favour all-white home kits with black trim, which is a pity considering their historically rich palette.

I first became aware of them in April 1991, when I came home from school and watched them play Manchester United in the first leg of the European Cup Winners’ Cup semi-final, in the stadium that stood on this spot back then.

That game, a 3-1 win for United which helped them to a 4-2 aggregate win, sticks in my mind as the first time I had seen a club goalkeeper wear an alternative shirt, with the late Les Sealey having to wear blue (albeit from the previous season) due to Legia having a green strip.

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I did notice that Legia had a big white square on their shirts, but I didn’t question why. Little did I realise the intriguing story behind it, and the fact that the Polish club were on to their third manufacturer of the season.

They had mainly worn adidas during the 1980s, but the kits varied a lot – as was often the case with Eastern European sides – and in 1990-91 they used two adidas templates in green and white.

However, in 1989-90, Legia had taken to the field in Umbro kit on occasion. The source of that? A transfer deal which saw Dariusz Wdowczyk and Dariusz Dziekanowski move to Celtic, with Legia asking that some kit be thrown in too.

Celtic sent teamwear over – Legia won the 1990 Polish Cup final wearing what was essentially the 1988-90 Bhoys kit – and in 90-91 they wore a Feyenoord-like kit against Widzew Lodz (just to annoy their rivals, who are usually red and white) while there was also a green and yellow kit in the style used by Chelsea and Luton. Both were worn with adidas shorts.

Back to the Cup Winners’ Cup. In beating Aberdeen in the last 16, Legia wore a white adidas strip, with the shorts featuring a large stripe, as there were problems in sourcing a green kit.

Their progress in Europe had attracted the interest of various businessmen, and one of them, Andrzej Grajewski, offered to help broker a deal with Italian Lotto. He travelled to Italy with manager Stasiu Terlecki, though Terlecki didn’t have a valid passport at the time, so, in crossing the border back into Poland, he hid in the boot of the car, under the new kit.

The new kit was worn in the Cup Winners’ Cup quarter-finals against Sampdoria, the template the same as that used by Costa Rica at the previous year’s World Cup – however, when Lotto looked for an image of the Legia crest to reproduce, they were given a pennant and they thought the whole pennant was the badge.

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Grajewski had pulled another stroke with the kits, asking Lotto to include the wordmark of Müllermilch, for whom he worked at the time. However, as Uefa hadn’t been informed in sufficient time about this development, Legia were threatened with a financial penalty unless the logo was covered.

For the semi-final with United, a different Lotto style was used, feauring a kind of starburst emanating from Lotto logos, but again with the sponsor covered, meaning the effect was obscured.

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The Müllermilch logo was allowed to be used in league games, and, though Legia signed a ‘proper’ deal with adidas for 1991-92, the Lotto equipment was occasionally seen.

Ten World Cup away kits which weren’t used

15 Sunday Jul 2018

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  • 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 at the competition. The odd sides out are Japan and Poland – their final Group H game would have been an opportunity for both to change, but this didn’t happen.

 

Unsurprisingly, to have just two away shirts unworn is a record, though one which will probably be beaten in future tournaments.

We decided to delve into the archives and pick one unused change kit from each of the past ten World Cups.

1978 – Scotland

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The shorts from this kit did see action against Peru and Iran, though the white shirts and socks remained in the hamper.

Perhaps fearful of looking too much like England, Scotland opted for red change shirts for much of the early 80s, followed by yellow.

1982 – Belgium

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Another kit which had its shorts used with the home shirts – though oddly against Argentina and not Poland – it was a pity that the yellow taping on the shorts didn’t have the red and black trim as on the shirts and socks.

1986 – England

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Yes, a sky-blue rather than red change kit for England in Mexico – Simon Shakeshaft says it, and we wouldn’t doubt him.

The heat was a factor in the decision (clearly, the 1970 black-and-white TV confusion wasn’t raised), though the red was brought as a third kit, primarily used for training.

The shorts and socks from this kit were used against Argentina in the quarter-finals.

1990 – Italy

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The hosts were able to wear their first kit in all seven of their games at Italia 90, and it’s a pity that this wasn’t called upon.

While Italy often used the home shorts and socks with their away shirts, it’s safe to assume that they had alternative versions for the competition.

1994 – Cameroon

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While a 1994 star-adorned shirt calls to mind the hosts USA, Cameroon also had this back-up shirt though they didn’t need to change against Brazil, Sweden or Russia.

(We’ve made an educated guess on the placement of the shirt-front number.)

1998 – Brazil

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Brazil wore blue in three games en route to winning in 1994, but four years later they didn’t have to change from their yellow shirts.

Had they done, they would have worn these shirts, in the same style but in the usual blue and white palette. The shorts and socks were used against Chile.

2002 – Spain

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Between their 1994 quarter-final defeat to Italy and the 2010 group game against Chile, Spain only wore an away kit once, against Nigeria in 1998.

This strip was one of those not to grace the World Cup but it did see action in other games – the blue equivalent wasn’t used at all.

2006 – Germany

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After wearing green against England in the 1990 semi-final, Germany’s next time to wear something other than white at the World Cup was the 2010 clash with Ghana.

Under Jürgen Klinsmann, red was favoured as an alternative colour and, had they needed to change as hosts in 2006, they would have donned this imaginative style – a shirt with asymmetrical sleeve colours wouldn’t be allowed nowadays, though.

2010 – Nigeria

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A lot of people were disappointed that Nigeria had to wear their change kit in two games out of three at the 2018 World Cup, but in 2010 they were able to use their first strip in all three games.

The alternative was an adidas template, but the use of the green shoulder panels meant that the shirt had adidas striping into two different colours.

2014 – Croatia

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Croatia’s first kit can often prove troublesome – while they will wear their famous chequered shirts in the final, it will be with white alternative socks, ending the tournament without having worn their full home strip.

In 2014, they were able to wear the primary shirt against Brazil, Cameroon and Mexico, meaning this smart blue outfit wasn’t called upon.

Season’s meetings, no. 6 – Brazil and Sweden, 1994 World Cup

14 Saturday Jul 2018

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  • See here for previous Season’s Meetings articles

Today’s World Cup third-place play-off will see England and Belgium wear their change kits, having been in their usual colours when they met earlier in the competition.

It brought to mind a similar situation from a previous World Cup, albeit one involving more legitimate reasons for alternative kits to be worn.

Brazil and Sweden were in Group B together in the 1994 World Cup and for their meeting on the Astroturf of the Pontiac Silverdome, Sweden were the home team, meaning Brazil changed to their second strip.

A 1-1 draw was enough for both sides to advance to the second stage, with Brazil topping the group. A 1-0 win over the USA brought them to the quarter-finals against the Netherlands.

Meetings between Brazil and Holland have been dealt with inconsistently by Fifa over the years – both wore home kits in the 1998 semi-final, for instance – but here a changed was ordered.

As the away team, the Dutch wore white but it was felt that that didn’t provide enough differentiation against Brazil’s yellow, so they wore the blue and white kit again.

Sweden also made it to the last eight after a win over Saudi Arabia, and their quarter-final also saw two away kits worn. It was a similar situation as Romania were the home team but Sweden’s away was white, so Romania wore red.

Brazil beat the Netherlands 3-2 while Sweden got past Romania on penalties, meaning the sides would meet again in the semi-finals. Brazil were the home team, but because of Sweden’s white away kit, they had to wear blue again, this time with the home shorts.

It didn’t affect them though as Romario’s goal earned them a 1-0 win and they went on to beat Italy on penalties in the final.

2018 World Cup kit-tracker – Group C completed

02 Monday Jul 2018

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France 2 Australia 1

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VAR and goal-line technology played roles as France got off to a winning start in the first game not to feature a team wearing adidas (the officials’ kits are made by the Germany company but they’re bereft of logos).

We actually quite like the three-tone blue of the French kit, but would have preferred the traditional red socks. Australia’s shirts feature a unique sleeve design – a wave design based on a rallying cry for a ‘sea of gold’.

Peru 0 Denmark 1

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A meeting of two of the nicest kits in the tournament, for our money. Denmark switched to red shots.

Peru are Umbro’s only contract at the finals and if we were to have on quibble it’s the way the front number is applied, creeping onto the sash – surprisingly, the back number sits flush on the sash whereas Fifa insist the likes of Croatia must have a plain back.

Denmark’s shirt features a number of subtle details, while the goalkeeper’s outfit mirrors the design.

Denmark 1 Australia 1

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Observers were left bemused by the fact that both teams changed kits, but according to Jack Henderson, a Danish player suffers from a rare colour-blindness which confuses red and gold.

The Danish change kit is a simple reversal of the home outfit, while Australia’s second strip is dark green with yellow trim, but with the shades used different to those of the first kit.

France 1 Peru 0

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Though they were the ‘home’ team, France changed shorts, creating a look like that worn by Scotland against Peru in 1978.

Peru goalkeeper Pedro Gallese didn’t have match details on his shirt against Denmark, but he did here.

Denmark 0 France 0

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A scorless draw was mutually beneficial as both sides advanced.

Denmark wore their ‘proper’ home kit, while France were in their change kit, with with red and blue flecks thoughout the torso and sleeves.

Australia 0 Peru 2

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Peru went out on a high, Andre Carrillo scoring their first World Cup goal since 1982. Their change kit was essentially a reversal of the home, but with different Umbro diamond taping on the shoulders and shorts as well as a different neck style.

Midweek Mashup – Scotland, 1978

19 Tuesday Jun 2018

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The kit France wore against Australia at the weekend came in for some comment and criticism – apparently, Fifa were concerned about the similarity of their red socks with the gold of their opponents so they wore navy sets.

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The red socks will be back on Thursday when they face Peru – but the famous tricolore won’t be seen as the white shorts will be swapped for navy so as to not to clash with the South American side.

It won’t be the first time a team playing Peru in the World Cup will have worn navy-navy-red, though – that was Scotland 40 years ago.

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Scotland had worn orange shorts with their home shirts before that, but this was a new departure. The look seemed to be a lucky charm when Joe Jordan put them ahead in the 14th minute, but Peru levelled before half-time and added two more goals in the second half.

The same combination was worn in the 1-1 draw against the all-white-clad Iran, meaning Scotland had little to play for in their final game aguainst the Netherlands (see here for a close look at the Dutch kits worn in the 1978 competition).

Back in their traditional navy-white-red, they won 3-1 and Archie Gemmill scored a goal featured in Trainspotting. In 2014, adidas gave Scotland a kit with navy shorts and dark red socks, but we’re not sure if Peru or Iran featured in the official marketing copy.

Fantasy Kit Friday – England Umbro, 2014

15 Friday Jun 2018

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We do keep a list of all of the requests people put in for FKF, but occasionally we mislay the details of who actually made a particular one and we apologise.

That was the case for the Coventry Kappa kit back in March and it’s the scenario here, if England had still had Umbro in 2014.

While the double-diamond didn’t have a huge number of contracts left after being stripped by Nike, they still had Everton, whose home kit style we used, and the Republic of Ireland, who provide the away design.

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1990 World Cup – all of the kits worn

12 Tuesday Jun 2018

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  • 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 be aware of
  • The labelling we’ve used is ‘Primary’ for the country’s first-choice kit and ‘Change’ for the second shirt; ‘Alternative’ is a kit which has different shorts or socks to the accepted make-up of a kit
  • For more information about each kit and when it was worn, see the following: Group A, Group B, Group C, Group D, Group E, Group F, Knockout Stages
  • Oh, and we did something similar for the 1970 World Cup

Austria

Argentina

Belgium

Brazil

Cameroon

Colombia

Costa Rica

Czechoslovakia

Egypt

England

Italy

Netherlands

Republic of Ireland

Romania

Scotland

South Korea

Spain

Sweden

USSR

UAE

USA

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Uruguay

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1990 World Cup kit-tracker – knockout stage

11 Monday Jun 2018

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Second round

Cameroon 2 Colombia 1 (aet)

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A game remembered for Roger Milla’s goal as he dispossessed René Higuita, who had gone on an ill-advised dribble up the field. Higuita had clearly been impressed by the blue jersey Bodo Illgner wore against Colombia, as he was in a grey version.

His team-mates wore their yellow away shirts (Colobmbia wouldn’t change their home colours from red until 1992), which had different blue shorts to the home kit.

Their yellow socks meant Cameroon changed to green sets – even though there hadn’t been a problem with the Indomitable Lions against yellow-blue-red when they met Romania. Nor was the amount of green on Thomas N’Kono’s shirt considered a problem.

Costa Rica 1 Czechoslovakia 4

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Tomáš Skuhravý scored a hat-trick for the Czechs, who wore their home socks with their change shirts.

Costa Rica wore a different red shirt to that of the group stages, with a red collar and a Lotto logo watermark. Having contravened the rules on logoless socks earlier, they wore the plain white away set here.

Meanwhile, having been there, done that and worn the three shirts, goalkeeper Luis Gabelo Conejo got injured, meaning that Hermido Barrantes took his place.

He wore a yellow version of the purple and green tops Conejo had worn, as well as having his number on his shorts.

Brazil 0 Argentina 1

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Brazil changed socks with Argentina wearing the white shorts from their away kit, the darker blue jarring with the rest.

Goycochea wore a ‘space invaders’ shirt for the first time, with the pattern the same way up as Egypt’s Ahmed Shoubeir rather than like Higuita, but arranged differently.

West Germany 2 Netherlands 1

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Both sides in their home strips and first-choice goalkeeper shirts.

  • Republic of Ireland 0 Romania 0 (aet, 5-4 on penalties)

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Unlike 1987 against Brazil, Packie Bonner was given a proper grey adidas jersey and it was his penalty save from Daniel Timofte which allowed David O’Leary to score the penalty which sent Ireland into the quarter-finals.

The shirt differed from the yellow in that the stripes only ran to the shoulders.

Italy 2 Uruguay 0

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Uruguay wore their home shorts – with larger numbers. Given how strict Fifa are nowadays, it would be difficult to imagine a game with one team in white shirts and either goalkeeper in a grey/silver so light.

Spain 1 Yugoslavia 2 (aet)

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Yugoslavia changed to their away kit, with goalkeeper Tomislav Ivković wearing a proper adidas shirt instead of a rebadged Uhlsport. His top – officially named Montevideo rather than ‘scribbles’ –  differed from Jan Stejskal’s and Tony Meola’s in that the pattern was entirely grey.

England 1 Belgium 0 (aet)

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David Platt scored a winner in injury time at the end of extra time, both sides in first-choice kits.

Quarter-finals

Argentina 0 Yugoslavia 0 (aet, 3-2 on penalties)

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A first outing for Argentina’s change shirts, worn with the home shorts and socks while Yugoslavia wore their red socks.

One difference among the Argentina team was that Diego Maradona opted to wear a pair of Napoli away socks, featuring the Ennerre logo. They didn’t help him to score his penalty in the shootout, but Goycochea’s heroics saw them through.

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Magic socks couldn’t help Maradona and meeting Pope John Paul II wasn’t enough to save Ireland as Toto Schillaci scored again.

West Germany 1 Czechoslovakia 0

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Another straightforward home kit v home kit game for Germany.

England 3 Cameroon 2 (aet)

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Two Cameroon goals in five second-half minutes had them on course for victory but a pair of Gary Lineker penalties sent England through.

Semi-finals

Italy 1 Argentina 1 (aet, 3-4 on penalties)

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Schillaci netted again, but Claudio Caniggia equalised for Argentina and Goycochea came up trumps in the shootout again.

Having considered Argentina’s stripes to clash with blue shirts and white shorts in the previous round, Fifa allowed both home strips here.

England 1 West Germany 1 (aet, 3-4 on penalties)

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Both sides had worn their home kits up until now, with England winning the toss for colours.

As with their home strip, Germany had had the same basic change kit since 1988, but originally it had a collar. Penalty misses by Stuart Pearce and Chris Waddle meant that Germany advanced.

Third-place play-off

Italy 2 England 1

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The purpose of this fixture was actually to reward the two teams who had gone through the tournament wearing only one kit (and not having to change goalkeeper shirts), it just so happened that they were the two beaten semi-finalists.

Final

West Germany 1 Argentina 0

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It was the same final pairing as four years previously, when Argentina had won in their home kit.

This time, they were in the darker blue, with Goycochea wearing the same socks as the rest of the team.

A penalty decided it for Germany – having scored from the spot against Czechoslovakia, captain Lothar Matthäus declined to take the kick when they were awarded it as he was wearing a new pair of boots.

Instead, his Inter Milan clubmate Andreas Brehme, normally left-footed, scored with his right foot to give them glory.