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.

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