A photo of AC Milan's home shirt for the 2012-13 season has been leaked on the Internet.

Designed and manufactured by Adidas, the new AC Milan shirt is a retro design with the famous black and red stripes as well as an old-fashioned collar. The collar looks closer to a old rugby shirt than a soccer shirt, but I love it.

Odds are not even someone who's logged over 1,000 hours on "Championship Manager," owns a different soccer shirt for every day of the month, or rearranges their schedule around live game action from around the globe -- aka a genuine soccer nerd -- raised an eyebrow when then-West Bromwich Albion manager Roberto di Matteo signed Peter Odemwingie in August from Lokomotiv Moscow for a little under

It was at the Queen and Beaver pub last night. I don't normally go to these sorts of to-do's, but under present circumstances I thought it would be neat to see a hefty chunk of Canadian soccer mashed into a pub with an open bar. The Umbro Canada kit launch itself was perfunctory—the real critical work was being done on the comments section of this post—and I have to say I was largely indifferent to the designs.

After France's embarrassing exit from last summer's World Cup, their Football Federation has replaced the manager, much of the roster and now their kits. After many years of Adidas' wildly-striped designs, new supplier Nike has introduced a severely sparse shirt. The just-bleu shirt follows a trend toward yesteryear led by Umbro, itself a Nike subsidiary.