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I wanted to follow up Kartik's excellent post on the nature of the MLS contract with a look at this situation from the MLS owner's perspective. If there is one thing the owners fear and will try to avoid at all costs, it is having a situation like what exists in Europe where a player contract is really a one-way street with the top players in a ridiculously powerful position.

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German giants FC Bayern München (or FC Bayern Munich) have launched their 2009/10 third kit that will be used for the team's UEFA Champions League matches. The new kit has already made its debut on the field during Bayern's pre-season campaign. The Bayern Munich 09/10 Adidas Champions League kit: - Features white pinstripes with a fold-over polo style [. Click to continue reading...

Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment. They giveth and they taketh away. Then they try to taketh some more. Don't blame those poor old men in pinstripes though, they just can't help themselves. Give credit where credit is due, the money-hungry misers who feed our footy obsession, like Harry Rosen-clad crack dealers, are very good at what they do. Click to continue reading...

Nike will begin a new era in the partnership with Mexican side Monterrey this coming season. The kit overall is very impressive and the moment that fans saw it a the official presentation fans were getting flashbacks.
The American outfitters templates are pretty much the same with this style but the one tweak that they made was all the difference they needed in order to impress fans. Click to continue reading...

German club SC Freiburg have unveiled their new home (heimtrikot), away ( Auswärtstrikot) and third ( Ausweichtrikot) for the 2009-10 season. The new SC Freiburg jerseys have been made by Nike. Duravit are the jersey sponsors. The home jersey is blue with horizontal white pinstripes. The third jersey is blue with white pinstripes, while the away jersey [. Click to continue reading...

Arsenal launched a third kit. They was the usual fanfare and hype as to the finesse of the quality, the "English" pinstripes, the woven labels etc. The question that people need to ask is why do we need a third kit and what happened to last year's away kit, a one season wonder?

Arsenal's home kit is red (stating the obvious), whilst our new away kit is blue.

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Arsenal's new third kit for the 2009/10 season has been officially unveiled on the Arsenal website.

Designed and manufactured by Nike, the white shirt features redcurrant stripes and a polo collar. Further shirt details include a panel of horizontal stripes at the back of the shirt.

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With new kits being unveiled, and some still in speculation this is a tense time for fans. So far this year we have seen some nice looking kits, and some awful ones. Below is a quick summary of each Premier League teams new wardrobe.

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Again, the Gunners kits are designed by Nike and their main sponsors are Emirates Airlines.

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French Ligue 1 side Paris Saint-Germain's home and away shirts for the 2009/10 season have been revealed. The new PSG strips are made by Nike. The home shirt ( maillot domicile) is navy blue in colour, with red pinstripes. The collar and the ends of the sleeves are red in colour. The PSG club crest and [. Click to continue reading...

French giants Olympique Marseille (OM) have unveiled their new home and away shirts for the 2009-10 season. The new OM kits are manufactured by Adidas. They celebrate the 110th anniversary of the club that was founded in 1899. The home jersey is white with vertical blue pinstripes. You also have blue adorning the V shaped collar, the [. Click to continue reading...

Photos of the new kit floating around today. When I first saw it, I didn't think too much of it, but the more I look at it, the more I like it. I don't think I like it quite as much as our away kit this year, but definitely like it more than those white shirts we wore away in 2007-2008, which were terrible.

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Morning all, it's fairly quiet now that the Wenger to Madrid stuff has calmed down.

We head into the final weekend of the season, a game against Stoke, and then we have the whole summer to look forward to.

Really the most interesting thing about this morning are the pictures of the new kit going around.

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A new photograph has been leaked that features the new Arsenal away kit for the 09/10 season. Modeled by Theo Walcott, the navy blue away strip is designed and manufactured by Nike, sponsored by Emirates.

The new Arsenal away football shirt features pinstripes and a polo-shirt styled collar.

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Pictures have been leaked of Arsenal's new away football kit for the 2009-10 season. Pictured above, the shirt is navy blue with thin light blue pinstripes and is designed and manufactured by Nike. Emirates will continue to be featured as Arsenal's shirt sponsor.

The last time Arsenal wore a navy blue shirt was the 2001-02 season when they wore a navy blue shirt as their third strip.

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It's time now for our fourth Shirt Legend which focuses on Arsenal's home shirts since 1969.
For those of you unfamiliar with what this is all about, we simply show you pictures of all the shirts worn by a particular team over the last forty or so years and ask you to vote for the one you like best. Click to continue reading...

One of many reasons why the New Yorker is essential reading, even in London.

But from the perspective of one fan in the press box, where the seats are free, the new Stadium experience did offer some unexpected pleasures, such as the running transcript, on a couple of the outfield scoreboards, of the new P.

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