I just went to shop.irelandfootball.ie to see (18 quid) and copped what Callum Robinson was wearing on the front page. Christ.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
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I just went to shop.irelandfootball.ie to see (18 quid) and copped what Callum Robinson was wearing on the front page. Christ.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
Fuck me I’ve just been through his tweets what an absolute fucking mentalist.Quote:
Originally Posted by niko_cee
At the deeper end he's probably right more often than not, but the cunt is too dumb to articulate anything.
Corporations doing their bits to save us from full kit wankers. Praise our woke overlords.
:D
Ayprill foolz
Someone reposted the "Ian Rush signs for Everton" cover of Shoot today and I had to check his wikipedia page. :D
I don't think football was ever better than when I used to rush down to WH Smith to get the new Shoot every week. Say, 1996-98, or the general 'what has David Beckham done now' era. I'd probably moved onto Four Four Two by 2000 and then, in my gauche early teen phase, World Soccer.
Such pleasures denied today's younglings who just watch some wam blam YouTube video by an influencer. Thanks for the thoughts grandad.
Official magazines never should've died out. Sometimes you want to know how an on-loan Argentinian is adapting to life on Tyneside. In print.
I have a troubled relationship with Magazines. On the one hand, I cracked out many a wank over a 30p Zoo/Nuts magazine. We never reached the peak of Sandmans Maddy prediction and I hold out some hope of a Shamima reboot, but it won't be the same.
And it won't be the same because it will either be the thickness of an Argos catalogue, 97% adverts or it will cost £6 a copy. Just as my son and daughters magazines did when I last agreed to buy them one, expecting them to cost a quid or two. Bastards.
I was a more of a Match man myself. IIRC it took more of a sideways look at the game which I enjoyed as an 8 year old.
I don't know what happened to Adidas but next years kits are ABYSMAL.
https://i.imgur.com/vkEmcUq.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/X8OSPYk.png
That home kit should be burned. Fucking hell.
It looks like a ProEvo kit of that Giroud-era Arsenal if they didn't have the rights.
The most anti-muzzie club [now that Millwall have some ethnics in their highly successful youth team] trying to get in on the Palestine cause. You love to see it.
Liverpool are ditching Nike for Adidas in a year. Not sure what’s worse!
Castore. Castore are worse.Quote:
Originally Posted by Baz
The first couple of years were some of the best shirts we'd had in my lifetime.Quote:
Originally Posted by Baz
Adidas are bound to try and riff on that massive fluffy collar kit they made in the Collymore closing in! era if I understand modern kit design.
New Balance nailed that already in 2017. Best kit we’ve had in ages.Quote:
Originally Posted by niko_cee
https://classicfootballkit.co.uk/cdn...g?v=1700238344
Not even close that original one was a belter. Fowler 23 on the back. He just used to score every fucking week being 11 years old I just assumed that was what all strikers did.Quote:
Originally Posted by Baz
Little did I know that since he’s left I’d sit through Heskey, Diouf, Morientes, N’Gog, Voronin, Lambert, Balotelli and Borini to name a few. That’s just the really shite ones as well I haven’t even touched on the not quite as shit.
Bit harsh on Heskey there, he had one-and-a-half or so seasons of pretty good goalscoring before turning into more of a proto-Dirk Kuyt workhorse (and meme in an England shirt, I guess).
I still reckon our best home kit recently was this darker red one in 19/20, normal collar and nice colour. Light red really doesn't look good.
https://gyazo.com/3a7ae6fcd71af9ff0c15ea1fee436159.jpeg
And I really like the trim colour on the following year's...
https://gyazo.com/0292450c5c41463160473a2033388644.jpeg
The facebook Africans are horny for the away kit, unsurprisingly.Quote:
Originally Posted by phonics
The green, red and black trim is quite nice... but the weird b&w tie-dye print is just odd.
Arsenal having blue stripes on their shirt is simply not acceptable.
It's hard to think of any interesting features on modern home kits, but that could just be me having much less interest in it all. That seems to have been a thing which has gone in the homogenisation of kit design. Is there a single feature of a modern Man City kit, for example, that anyone can remember as being interesting in the oeuvre of the Liverpool big collar or the United sleeves on that kit from whenever? What an abomination, but also an enduring, dare I say now ICONIC, design
That stupid black and yellow hazard stripe City had as a 'tribute' to the Hacienda.
Was that on a home kit though? Away kits are obviously more ripe than ever with shit like dragons and all sorts of other offensive wank, like being in the colours of a rival.
They should never have gotten rid of the blue, that's the one I always think of with them. I had that and the bruised banana ones, think they were the same season.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
My mistake, it was the away.Quote:
Originally Posted by niko_cee
The dark blue area is quite nice, but the glossy light blue is awful.
Nice shade of red with pin stripes, but the collar is so shite... I get the "tribute" to the old massive collar.. but it just doesn't work.
Yeah, good red, good use of yellow, just go all in on the collar if that's the design you are stealing. Can't help but think that is motivated by Adidas taking over duties soon.
How do they keep getting it wrong? Looks like 3 different shirt ideas were had but they couldn't agree so they did parts of all.
I look forward to Vigil Van Dijk as Inspector Clouseau though.
Or is that more of an Open All Hours get up?
The home shirt does look laughably bad in that picture, but looks pretty good in some of the other renders online in my opionion.Quote:
Originally Posted by phonics
That's a nice Liverpool kit although the Hairy Hungarian could don anything and I'd say the same. What a man.
New Crewe Alex home shirt is a bit of a banger. Nice deeper shade of red, and classic twist on the club crest. And everyone loves Mornflake's.
https://gyazo.com/7d51ee5f2e3cb63e9ee6f006e20501ee.jpeg
Skip hire company on the sleeve as well, proper football.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWWT1lTIBMA
I need a second to recover from the slow, moody Blaydon Races. I fucking hate advertising. :D
That Sela sponsor really is abhorrent. Villa going Adidas as well for the foreseeable future so fingers crossed they don't fuck things up.
I haven't bought one since the Wonga days. I don't think we've had a really, really good one since 2000. I was in a Sports Direct yesterday just to eye up their England shirts. £85 is extortionate.
Sorting the spreadsheet for the Euro 2024 comp has really highlighted how many nations play in red kits with white detail. According to the FM colours, at least.
Poland, Czechia, Serbia, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, Türkiye, Denmark, Portugal.
There needs to be a limit on the above. Either get new colours, or they should all be ringfenced into one qualifying group.
I'll let Poland off as they reverse the colours.
Doesn't help that so many teams now also just have boring solid colours.
Croatia won't be long, they started with a unique kit but slowly they're zooming in year by year
https://i.imgur.com/WH2gPik.png
https://i.imgur.com/KLWurWx.png
https://i.imgur.com/Y38Z7Ej.png
Zooming in :D
Wales need to represent the dragon a bit more. Imagine the designs that could throw up.
https://i.ibb.co/kQwhCxM/FB-IMG-1718274683746.jpg
Why are Nike pumping out such bad kits these days?
Looks like a school PE kit