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[50GFSE] #42 - Arsenal 2005-06 Home Shirt by Nike
When a football kit manufacturer radically changes the shirt traditionally worn by a club, it has to either (a) have a pretty good reason for doing so, or (b) have exceptional confidence that the new...
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Fantasy Nostalgia: Regional ITV Football Kits
In much the same way as our League of Blogs graphically rendered websites as football kits, this little exercise in pointless fantasy does exactly the same for some of the ITV regional TV channels of...
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The Football Attic Podcast 24 - 50GFSE 50-41
We've come to the end of the first 10 shirts in the 50 Greatest Football Shirts Ever and what better way to celebrate that milestone than by the four of us (Rich, Chris, John from True Colours and Jay...
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[50GFSE] #41 - Birmingham City 1972-74 Third Shirt by Umbro
The 'Third' kit is an interesting phenomenon. Born out of necessity because the colours on a home or away kit clash with the opposing team (unlikely, you'd have thought), it's now become a license to...
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[50GFSE] #40 - Athletic Bilbao 2011-12 Away Shirt by Umbro
This isn't the first time I've written about this particular shirt (incidentally, I had also written about the France Techfit shirt previously, here) and it’s often interesting how time passing alters...
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[50GFSE] #39 - USA 1992-93 Home Shirt by adidas
One of the most seismic shifts in kit design occurred in 1991. Adidas, of Trefoil logo fame and enduring sleeve stripes - with very few exceptions to this rule on football shirts - dispensed,...
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[50GFSE] #38 - France 1980-84 Home Shirt by adidas
Click for larger versionForgive me for taking a slightly anglophilic approach as I look back at this beautiful France home kit, worn from 1980 to 1984 by the likes of Michel Platini, Jean Tigana and...
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[50GFSE] #37 - Brighton & Hove Albion 1985-87 Home Shirt by adidas
As I hinted at in my write-up for the French 1980-84 shirt (number 38 in our run-down for those who missed it) It seems to me that adidas have always saved their best designs for the continent. It's...
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[50GFSE] #36 - Watford 1985-88 Home by Umbro
Thanks to its combination of colours (how does the rhyme go again... yellow, black, red and green should never be seen?) this Watford shirt shouldn't work. The fact that it does, even as it teeters on...
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[50GFSE] #35 - Manchester United 1992-94 Home by Umbro
Click for larger versionFolk are often sceptical about how much influence a kit can have over the fortunes of a team. However I've seen too many examples where a good looking outfit could arguably be...
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[50GFSE] #34 - Rangers 1987-90 Home Shirt by Umbro
Often in the world of football kit design, the basic, perhaps primitive ideas of yesteryear are dismissed as being too old-fashioned or simplistic. This should never happen, for today's kits have all...
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[50GFSE] #33 - Olympique de Marseille 2011-12 Away Shirt by adidas
If I had my way, this shirt would have been much higher up the list... probably not Top 10, but somewhere just outside. This is the trouble with democracy - you have to take other people's opinions...
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Soccer Monthly (No. 1, September 1978)
"Produced by the same team as that behind the widely read weekly magazine SHOOT", Soccer Monthly aimed to provide some weightier reading matter for football fans of all ages. In reality, it was most...
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[50GFSE] #32 & #31 - USA 1994 Home & Away Shirts by adidas
Some things in life are great, not so much vicariously, but because something else exists (also consequently great). For example, certain film trilogies - you can watch one of the series but you enjoy...
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The Football Attic Podcast 25 - 50GFSE 40-31
It's time for the second podcast in the Greatest Football Shirts Ever series and today we're covering shirts 40-31!Prepare for nearly 2 (two) hours of kitchat, which is a bit like a KitKat, but with 40...
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[50GFSE] #30 - Saint-Étienne 1981-82 Home Shirt by Le Coq Sportif
The iconic French side Saint-Etienne (pronounced ‘center gen’ as we are reliably informed by our resident Frenchman, Jay) have had so many sublime kits over the years its difficult to pinpoint just one...
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[50GFSE] #29 - West Ham United 1976-80 Home Shirt by Admiral
Somebody call Admiral. No, not the car insurance company. Somebody call the legendary football kit manufacturers of the same name. They're needed back in modern football where they used to be......
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[50GFSE] #28 - Evian Thonon Gaillard 2011-12 Home Shirt by Kappa
Some football shirts have made this list by virtue of having a simple, but classic design, some by becoming memorable through exposure in a major tournament, while others have arrived here by being...
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It's all about the money, money, money...
I awoke this morning (in Australia, before you ask) to the rather startling news that Raheem Sterling has signed for Manchester City from Liverpool for the princely sum of £49 million. Why I should be...
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[50GFSE] #27 - Coventry City 1987-89 Home Shirt by Hummel
It's often the case that when one inspects some of the most iconic designs in kit history, despite usually being remembered for one particular team (Holland '88 for example), they were actually just a...
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