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The latest development in football kits? Invisibility properties. We can make use of that here.
Image: Valerio Pennicino/Getty Images Europe.
Did you spend the last 48 hours in your homemade duvet cave, eating nachos and taking in as much
sport as possible between well deserved naps? We did.
How football kits managed to devolve from this (above) 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.
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.
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.
Wow. JT's only been benched for a game and already Frank has found a new BFF. Will his former
bezzie cope? Image: 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.
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.
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.
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.
"Ya beauty, a new Scotland strip."
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.
But they do.
And here it is. In all it's glory.
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.
By Chris Wright
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
By WAG Watcher
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.
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.
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.
A collection of the worst football kits ever inflicted on the long suffering fans. It is no
coincidence that most of these are from the 1990s, the decade that style forgot. There have been,
of course, many change strips that were worse than the kits shown here but these are beyond the
scope of this site.
With our protest of most items pertaining to football kits overtly obvious, we'd like to offer a
cordial tip of our fedoras to the sturdy studs that stabilise footy boots. Were it not for these
relatively innocuous metal or plastic nubbies catching JJ's feet in a tangled tizzy, we may never
have had the opportunity to gaze at the delightful contours of his beautiful behind.
A forlorn David Moyes described it as the "worst performance" he had ever seen in his 9 years in
charge of Everton as his side limped to a 2-0 defeat against Bolton yesterday. The performance in
the defeat went someway to explaining the current predicament Everton find themselves in, but it
was Moyes, slumped and stony-faced, looking tired and haggard that betrayed the trouble the
Merseyside club are in.
By Ollie Irish
Manufactured by Olympic – a guarantee of shitness, as I recall – this Orient 'pixels' home
kit (the pixelated design was a nod to sponsors Acclaim) is a classic example of why the 1990s
dominates any list of terrible football kits.
Marketing? Money-grab? Shameless euro-poseurism? Jedi mind trick (
"these aren't the forwards
you're looking for...")?
All of the above.
But screw it. News is slow. In lieu of speculation on where the goals are going to come from this
year, let's roll with the fashion angle and tea leaf strewn guessing-game nonsense, shall we?
Nike's Elite level football boots leave footballers (amateur and professional) with an important
choice to make do they go for the speed, acceleration and agility of the Nike Mercurial Vapor
Superfly II, or the first touch and close control of the Nike CTR360 Maestri II Elite?
Nike Mercurial Vapor Superfly II
From the Soccerlens Superfly II review:
The Mercurial Vapor SuperFly II features the unique NIKE SENSE adaptive traction system where
designers created a pair of adaptive studs in the forefoot that can extend and retract by up to
3mm, based on ground conditions and pressure exerted by the player.
Soccerlens Shirts is the section of the blog where, as the name suggests, Soccerlens reveals,
discusses, reviews football kits, shoes and other football related accessories. SL Shirts have
provided you with some must-read features over the years covering signed products to weirdest
football merchandise.