Association Football Kits

I’m quite disappointed with the Argentina jersies for the World Cup. Previous efforts have been much more stylish. Having white shorts on the home kit is an affront to tradition, as is the case with the Germany home kit, which also has a rather unappealing jersey design.

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Last week Germany, Argentina, Spain, Russia, Japan and Colombia released new home strips for the 2014 World Cup. They all had the latest technology and looked snazzy enough. But four were problematic for the purists.

Germany are wearing white shorts as first choice instead of their classic black. Spain’s legwear, normally blue, is red. White garments will cover Argentina and Colombia’s modesty.

Malcontents flooded social media, blaming the sportswear company- in the above instances adidas- or the individual FAs. Colombia’s white shorts, when paired with their yellow shirt, look like a mix’n’match from a mouldy lost property bin.
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[B]But don’t blame designers or federations, as with most things that go horribly wrong in football for no particular reasons, it’s FIFA.

Rule 2, section 35 of the World Cup 2014 regulations states: “Each team shall inform FIFA of two different and contrasting colours (i.e. strips). One predominately dark and one predominately light for its official and reserve kit.”

FIFA believe lights v darks help the referee clarify tussles, lunges, tackles and deflections. They don’t ask teams to wear one colour, but adidas, as an official partner of the governing body, followed the rule closely. Hence Germany resembling Leeds and Spain doing their Bayern Munich impression.[/B]

It isn’t known if Puma and Nike will opt for monochrome kits. Hosts Brazil wear the latter, and it’s predicted the American label will soften their blue shorts so the strip slots into the ‘light’ category.

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It’s adios to the odd but pleasing red-royal blue-black combo of Emilio Butragueno’s 1986 Spain, and auf wiedersehen to Franz Beckenbauer’s white-black-white livery of invincibility. That’s probably only a big deal to fuddy-duddies over 25.

Of course, this mild outrage is nothing compared to the apparel armageddon on the horizon. Wait until FIFA propose sponsors on national team shirts…

Ah here, I hope we stuff these cunts

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This is very spooky.

This is apparently old news but I was pleasantly surprised a few minutes ago to read that Everton have ditched the hated Nike brand and are returning to Umbro, who have also signed up Lens and the Serbian national team.

This is superb news for traditionalists and hopefully it won’t be long before Liverpool and Celtic return to sporting the historic double diamond on their chests.

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I like Italy away.

Australia’s home shirt is pretty much Brazil’s shirt from around 1988 with a swoosh on it.

New England kit is very nice. Simple classic. Red long sleeved one would be nice in a beer garden in June

USA away is basically a rip-off of the New York GAA jersey.

Greece home, France home, S. Korea away and Aussie away would be my favs of that bunch.

This one?

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No that is the New England Patriots. New England kit.

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3 fine looking kits there from Warrior. Befitting of the Champions League.

I wouldn’t be mad about the piping on the sleeves, but I guess it’ll have to do.

Have we matured enough as a society to wear the England kit on a Saturday afternoon in a beer garden in Dublin or would it invite unwarranted attention and inevitably lead to fisticuffs.

I’d say you’d be asking for a bunch of fives by doing so.

Wearing any soccer kit in a beer garden in Dublin for a grown man should be punishment beating offence I would suggest.

You are probably right but people do it without incident regularly enough.

Would you wear a jersey to a match? I generally don’t.

Anyway my question was if the England jersey in and of itself was still provocative following Her Majesty’s visit to Ireland and President Higgins visit to the UK.

[QUOTE=“TheUlteriorMotive, post: 929105, member: 2272”]You are probably right but people do it without incident regularly enough.

Would you wear a jersey to a match? I generally don’t.

Anyway my question was if the England jersey in and of itself was still provocative following Her Majesty’s visit to Ireland and President Higgins visit to the UK.[/QUOTE]
I think the vast majority of Irish males would have similar thoughts going through their heads if they saw a compatriot wearing an England or a Rangers jersey. Might not end up in violence but I’d say the chap in question wouldn’t be getting bought too many pints.