And Laoisâs 2003 Leinster title.
I love Umbro but jaysus what crack were their designers smoking with this. To be fair, a Kilkenny template of this would still be an improvement on anything OâNeillâs have designed for that county over the last 25 years.
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And this.
Umbro signing up Manchester United in 1992 was a big deal. They went all in in terms of effort on the designs in the first few years and Dublin schools were festooned with various Manchester United jackets and coats and whatever else.
This thing was everywhere in the winter of 1992/93.
But the cooler Manchester United supporting kids wore this.
It didnât help that Liverpoolâs kits and general merchandise of the time was dreadful.
That changed in the summer of 1995, when this shirt arrived:
And these were everywhere.
Then after one year we got fucking Reebok.
Good God. Thereâs an eye condition called reversal of vision metamorphopsia, where your eye sees things upside down or inside out, and all wavy at the same time. That jersey was a visual representation of what it must be like.
Azzurri were not only shite quality, they were fucking fit inducing in their shiteness of design. God help your eyesight.
I liked the initial Reebok shirts. The home, the ecru and then a yellow.
The collar of the Liverpool shirt in 1996 was a shocker.
The shock of the new. It was one of those everybody hated at first, and then hated less, and was then ambivalent about, and then liked, and then loved.
The 1998-2000 Reebok kit wasnât bad. And the Istanbul kit. But they still had Reebok logos on them. Same as the current kit isnât bad. But it still has a Nike logo on it. Liverpool kits arenât meant to be made by Reebok or Nike. Umbro or Adidas or anonymous or go home.
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Definitely not Warrior or New Balance anyway.
I have a slight soft spot (or hard spot if you prefer) for the 2013-14 Warrior jersey.
That was a nice jersey alright.
But the away kits were utterly horrific.
Whatâs that fucking shitheap?
That crest is fucking shite
A short series: companies who became enduringly well known and generate instinctively positive thoughts in the minds of men in their early 40s in Ireland, purely through football shirt sponsorship
- Revigres
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What an account 