Crivens! It looks like it's been stitched together from the bedspreads at an old people's nursing home/abandoned Day Hospital from the late 1980s. Yeesh.
Admittedly, we don't know an awful lot about this kit, but we will share what we do know.
Remember when Marti Pellow and the rest of the chaps from Wet Wet Wet took over as principle sponsors of Clydebank FC back in 1993? Repressed the memory? Let us once again bring it to the fore.
With a fair old wodge of excess cash knocking round after a string of early 90s hits, Wet Wet Wet wanted to invest some of their funds back into their hometown football club and did so by becoming the Bankies' shirt sponsor the first ever deal of its kind.
Nike to manufacture new England football kits from 2013 is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow
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Soccer Blogger on Twitter Nike have inked a deal with the Football Association that will see them
take over as manufacturers of both the men's and women's England national football team's kits next
year.
We've been here before, of course. The news that the Football Association has decided to
jettison Umbro as the manufacturers of the England national teams kit in favour of the brand that
owns it, Nike, has been a long time coming and should be no great surprise to many seasoned
kit-watchers.
I'd always thought that tartan in football strips was a mid 90s phenomenon restricted to Scotland's
Euro 96 team and Morton.
Yet it seems it's a trend that is almost as old as the game itself.
The 10th Lanarkshire Volunteers combined navy jerseys and red socks with Black Watch tartan
"knickerbockers" way back in 1884-85 while in 1888-89 Vale of Atholl adopted breeches fashioned
from the local tartan.
Manchester United striker ahead of Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal stars in selling football
replica kits - originally posted on Soccerlens.com
Wayne Rooney was king of the replica kit last season. The Manchester United striker's surname
was the most popular for the back of Premier League replica shirts.
Due to a brief summer break, this week's quick round-up football charities is a little later
than usual, but this evening we have another couple of causes related to the game which prove that,
for all of the bad news that seems to be out there and it can seem, from time to time, to be
perpetual there is still some good that can come from the heart of the game.
Everyone knows that Liverpool have not had a great couple of years, but since the return of
Kenny Dalglish, the sale of Fernando Torres and the signings of Luis Suarez and Andy Carroll that
all took place in January, there has been a really positive change at the club and fans will be
optimistic for what the future holds nowYou can tell the way that those wearing Liverpool football
shirts are expressing themselves on the park is in a much more liberal manner, giving them more
freedom to play to the best of their ability.
Guest post from Shaz Rahman. For our younger viewers, Coventry's fall may be neither here
nor there. But for a very long time they were one of those unrelegateable teams that simply stuck
around forever, punching above their weight and annoying bigger clubs on an annual basis. They
won the FA Cup, gloriously, in 1987, and it's fair to say they've had some of the great football
kits of all time.
Guest post from Shaz Rahman. For our younger viewers, Coventry's fall may be neither here
nor there. But for a very long time they were one of those unrelegateable teams that simply stuck
around forever, punching above their weight and annoying bigger clubs on an annual basis. They
won the FA Cup, gloriously, in 1987, and it's fair to say they've had some of the great football
kits of all time.
How football kits managed to devolve from this (above)Â to this is, for the time being, a hot topic
among our inner circle. Rest assured, Kickettes, we are exploring kit manufacturers' motives as we
speak and will report back with our findings ASAP. Image Credit: Telegraph.co.uk.
No self-respecting football supporter would be seen without their team's 2011/12 shirt on the
terraces this season. What's wrong with you? Don't love your club enough to spend 114 quid on a
polyester nightmare?
Actually, kit design has improved immeasurably in recent years. Which is why it's a real pity
that this year's offerings are beginning to show little signs that 1990s excess is starting to
creep back in.
Nah, it's obviously not working. We can still see him... Image via footballkitnews.com.
Football kits aren't exactly our favourite thing in the world, Kickettes. They obfuscate bodies.
As you know, anything that prevents us from enjoying our daily flesh fix makes us stabby, which is
why we tend to avoid kit reviews like we do cheap shoes.
Minutiae give us the most delight and cause us the most annoyance. Marco Verratti's silky turns
raised my eyebrows (definitely one to watch: more on this later) and a girl's ponytail whipping
against my legs as she alternated between watching the monitor and talking to her boyfriend made me
want to murder someone.
We can dig this, 'this' being the work of artiste Elena Gonzalez a portrait of Cristiano Ronaldo
created using images of football stadiums from around the world as seen on Google Earth...
Nice, but not a patch on our favourite Ronaldo-inspired piece.
Turkish Airlines, Barcelona (and Manchester United), Pop Art, felt tips, Ebay: It's all in the
video, so give it a watch...
Basically, the skinny is that Turkish Airlines (who have the enviable gig of being sponsors for
both Barcelona and Manchester United) and artist Craig Redman have produced blank versions of
Redman's Pop Art portraits and asked the respective players to finish them off as they saw fit.
UK-listed Findel plc is reportedly considering 'demerging' Kitbag, its online retailer of
sportswear and official football kits. The subsidiary manages the online retail operations for
several European clubs, including Barcelona, Manchester United and Real Madrid. Last year it
recorded revenues of £58 million, up from £48 million, and made operating profits of £1.
Spain reigned supreme on the pitch, but which nation stole the sartorial show? Euro 2012 was a tame
tourney for football kits when compared to some of the shock shirts of years past, but still had
its fair share of ...
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With Chelsea's extraordinary performance at the European Championships, hopes of the English
team repeating the feat at Euro 2012 are high. Bookies are getting in on the action with Paddy
Power giving us generous 10/1 odds to win the title and as we're just behind Germany, Spain and
Holland I'm certainly going to have a sneaky bet.
Uh-oh, it looks like the 25-year German-French curse is doomed to be unbroken forever!
You know how it is, no one really takes friendly matches seriously these days it's perceived as an
escape from the harsh intensity of the domestic leagues. But surely, France's 2-1 win over Germany
last night must have been painful for the fans, who turned up in full force and expected so much
from Joachim and Freunde.
England Euro 2012 Home Kit a touch of class by Umbro - originally posted on Soccerlens.com
The new England 2012 home shirt created specifically by Umbro for England's Euro 2012 campaign
is a classic white and red number that incorporates a lot of feedback given by England fans on the
previous kit.
With the Euro's well underway, we have teamed up with All Fancy Dress to offer one lucky winner
a £40 voucher to spend on any costume or accessories (perhaps both). To see what you could be
spending your voucher on, why not take a look at the website by clicking here?
This right here is the art of Leo Fitzmaurice, a chap that specialises in taking soggy tab
packets and turning them into miniature football kits and we bloody well love it...
Apparently, the idea first came to Leo (who is neither a smoker or a football fan!
Retro Football Kits - originally posted on Soccerlens.com
Throughout history, people have been kicking a ball but the earliest scientific evidence suggest
that it was an exercise from a military manual in the second and third BC in China it was called
Cuju. Modern football took years in the making after the Chinese forgot about cuju.
Roberto Carlos instructing Anzhi players
Roberto Carlos recently hinted at Anzhi's interest in more world-class European players.The former
Brazilian full-back and current joint-manager of Russian side Anzhi Makhachkala has revealed he
would like to bring Arsenal center forward Robin Van Persie to the club during the January transfer
window.
Wow. JT's only been benched for a game and already Frank has found a new BFF. Will his former
bezzie cope? Image:Â Alex Livesey/Getty Images Europe.
Bad news. Due to a series of unexpected international friendly results at the weekend, the
'Kickette Betting for Beverages' budget has taken a massive hit.
It's Friday evening, we're on an international break and the long, long summer transfer window
has finally closed; time for something a little light hearted. How about the colour of socks?
Yes, I really did this, but I cannot possibly stress this enough: I really, really don't care about
the colour of socks on our home kit.
African Cup of Nations 2012: New Ghana Home Kit is a post from: Just Football
On Monday, at a lavish launch party at the Design Museum in London, PUMA unveiled the 2012
football kits for their 10 partnered African National football teams. Of course Just
Football was there doing its bit to represent African football and we were lucky enough to
mingle, sit down and chat with some of the top players on the continent.
LONDON, UK (November, 7 2011) – Global sportlifestyle brand PUMA® has revealed an inspiring and
contemporary collaboration, launching technical football kits for PUMA's 10 partnered African
National football teams. Each kit is designed by a renowned artist from the Creative African
Network (CAN) – a PUMA platform connecting and promoting artists from and in Africa.
Football kits are very much in the news in recent days, since Cardiff City's decision to switch
from their traditional blue jerseys to a red shirt depicting Owain Glyndwr sat atop a dragon whilst
erotically touching King Edward I. And with ruthless efficiency, now a major international
tournament arrives to further remind us that the people who design football kits are a singularly
alienated bunch.
One of the saddest parts of modern football is the way in which the non-Premier League divisions
have been neglected and forgotten by the mainstream media. Take a look through some old cigarette
card collections or the wonderful Football League Review magazine and you'll find that although not
necessarily billed as equals with First Division clubs, many of the smaller lower league sides were
included and covered alongside many of the giants of English football.
That's me trying to channel my eight year old self because I'm not really sure why anyone who isn't
going to wear it competitively or anyone over school age should get excited about such a thing.
Liverpool FC and Oxfam have joined forces to change lives in West Africa.
The Standard Chartered strip, which was worn proudly by the likes of Luis Suarez and Dirk Kuyt last
season, has been donated by the club's award winning Community Department to Oxfam.
The full strip, including training gear and boots, is going to a project in Dakar, Senegal, called
Frip Ethique.
Move along, nothing to see here. Just fünf of the smoking-est frauen from the German Women's
U20 side (Selina Wagner, Julia Simic, Annika Doppler, Kristina Gessat and Ivana Rudelic though
we've no idea who is who) posing for Playboy in teeny-tiny 'football kits', move along.
