why,when refs`are meant to ensure players keep shirts tucked in and socks pulled up,are clubs allowed to wear away strips(presumably to sell more of these shirts) when there is a clear clash with the home team as a result?pelermo-inter is a case in point-inter in white and palermo in their pale pink home shirts when inter could clearly have worn their home colours
Some clubs seem to have forgotten the general point of away kits. A couple of years ago, Newcastle had (obviously) a balck-and-white home kit, and a greyish-black away kit. It wasn't a "change" strip at all! Manchester City seem to be copying this, a light blue home shirt and a dark blue away shirt might cause problems if they played, say, Chelsea or Everton away.
Having started the season with a hideous all-green away strip, Celtic have just unveiled a new black shirt that looks distinctly like a training-shirt. Perhaps someone at Nike/Celtic remembered that Hibs, whom we play next week, also wear green and white. Clever them.
It's almost as though clubs had kits for reasons other than playing football in. Playing football and entertaining the fans is now secondary to cash.
Kits are actually chosen because they go well with jeans and because there's a world glut of plastic fabric that snags and bobbles at every opportunity to be used up.
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I love good football shirts. There are, of course, far too many around and many look identical. Often, save for a different badge or sponsor, it is difficult to tell one club from another.
I used to like to wear the Inter shirt regularly but now I only wear it after a day when we have won, or when we play. I've grown out of the 'football shirts look cool phase'. They aren't the best fitting things either.
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Stevie's example is an odd one. Unless Inter made the mistake of taking just the one kit, there seems no reason why Inter couldn't wear their home strip.
I remember that there was a case in, IIRC, the 1978 World Cup where one of the teams had to borrow shirts from a local club because both sides had brought their second strip, and these clashed...
Originally posted by Snow_Patrol: Anyone that goes out (other than to watch a football match) in a football shirt needs shooting, in my opinion.
Then please do. I often wear my Inter shirt (Rennes, and Derby too) to show my support for the club, just like sidude, but not just when we win. I don't wear it to look 'cool' I've never been fashionable in my life, and I'm not about to start(It's also the only think of 'N*ke' that I've ever bought too).
The business of the needless wearing of away kits goes along with the ridiculous commercial side of football that is becoming ever more present. Just tonight, I've come back from the Derby match (1-1 with Coventry ) and you're forever being distracted by these bloody adverts. Not only that, there are now sloped crash-mats (the kind used in PE when we were at school) that have 'C*ca C*la' put on it, directly beside the goal and behind the 6 yard box, forcing the goalkeeper to have a curved run up to take a goal-kick! It's going too far, especially when it directly affects what goes on, on the pitch. We'll have the Citroen Dancing Car waltzing around the pitch next.
I wear the odd shirt outside of a football game, I couldn't give a toss what other people think is cool or not.
As for clashing kits, the Inter-Palermo thing does seem odd. And yes, most kits by the big manufacturers do look too alike. I remember when Kappa used to give Juve the brand newest design, and other teams would get them the next year, when Juve had something new. Now its all the same but colour with Nike. At least it's better than Lotto's ugly red square 3 or 4 times all over the shirt. I like them simple and clutter free.
I have ten football shirts and I love them all and I wear them all the time and they look well good and I wear them with jeans and nice trainers and I feel boss cos they are the best. So there!
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I wear a 'new' shirt most weeks at five-a-sides. Not that they are new, I haven't bought one in a long time and some are over ten years old, but every now and again I get one as a present from one of my family. I think I'm too old to wear shirts regularly in public, but I wouldn't change out of my figure-hugging Real Betis replica just to nip down the shops. I decided a long time ago that when I was older than some of the established members of the first team, I'd stop wearing Celtic shirts to games. So, for all my shirts I haven't had 'the hoops' since 1998.
I'd also like to point out that I am occasionally ridiculed for my profusion of footie shirts - after all, even in my AC Siena shirt I'm no Enrico Chiesa - but not half as much as I am for my Stevie Foster-esque headband.
Originally posted by .Dave.: Stevie's example is an odd one. Unless Inter made the mistake of taking just the one kit, there seems no reason why Inter couldn't wear their home strip.
I remember that there was a case in, IIRC, the 1978 World Cup where one of the teams had to borrow shirts from a local club because both sides had brought their second strip, and these clashed...
I'm sure it was France-Hungary and Hungary had to borrow the local strips. They lost 3-1 as well.
I remember that there was a case in, IIRC, the 1978 World Cup where one of the teams had to borrow shirts from a local club because both sides had brought their second strip, and these clashed...
I'm sure it was a match involving France in the '82 WC and one of the teams ended up playing in green and white vertical stripes loaned to them by the landlord of Le Lione Rouge, the local brasserie.
I occassionally wear football shirts out and about. I'm not exactly going to go to a restaurant or somewhere like that wearing one, but Jesus Christ, if (in Micky's world) I'm not allowed to wear a football shirt and jeans whilst popping down to the shops to get a newspaper or something, it seems rather odd...and I don't give a flying **** if it's fashionable or not!
There'll be calls to ban hoodies next. Oh wait, that's been done.
I've only got three football shirts that still fit me, actually. (That's because I've been getting older, not because I've got fat). A Fiorentina shirt from 03/04, a Portugal shirt from the 2002 World Cup, and the new Arsenal shirt which came today, actually. I haven't bought an Arsenal shirt for ages - mostly because they've all been disgusting. And maroon suits me more than red... Got Fabregas on the back of it - the boy is a genius.
) and you're forever being distracted by these bloody adverts. Not only that, there are now sloped crash-mats (the kind used in PE when we were at school) that have 'C*ca C*la' put on it, directly beside the goal and behind the 6 yard box, forcing the goalkeeper to have a curved run up to take a goal-kick! It's going too far, especially when it directly affects what goes on, on the pitch. We'll have the Citroen Dancing Car waltzing around the pitch next.
