Sports manufacturer, Warrior, released Liverpool’s new away kit last week sparking differing opinions that have divided fans.
Some took the liverpoolfc.com website,
‘I actually like it, it’s different, we stand out, as long as we perform well in it, I’m happy’ commented one fan.
Others took to social media. One fan tweeted,
‘Did they travel back to the 80s to get that kit? #NewLiverpoolKit’
Others are claiming that the kit is the ‘worst ever’. Jose Enrique’s face rather explains everybody’s opinion. The kit looks like a sweater rapidly unraveling at the seams, hopefully this isn’t an omen for the coming season….
Is this the worst kit ever though?
Thisisfutbol.com looks back at the 15 worst kits in football history…
15. Columbus Crew Away 2012/13
If your using an old dial up connection, you may wonder what is wrong with this kit from the MLS.
The bold yellow and black stripes are certainly striking. But from the chest down it seems manufacturers, Adidas, ran out of ink during production!
Well at least they produced 1/4 of a good shirt…
14. Birmingham City Away 1970s
Fortunately for Birmingham fans this kit was only worn on two occasions during the 1970s. The eye catching strip was designed, strangely enough, with the German flag in mind. Nobody is quite sure where the inspiration for this came from. Rumour has is that a Birmingham director on a pre-season tour of Germany liked the colour combination of black, red and amber and decided to use it as an alternative colour scheme to Blues’ classic ‘penguin’ kit of the time. Watching monochrome footage of the kit’s two outings at West Brom and QPR is quite a challenge as the players take on a different appearance depending on which way they are running.
13. Newcastle United Away 2009/10
The release of this yellow and umm yellow striped change strip had the majority of household newspapers poking fun. Described as a ‘custard cream’ design by The Independent that made the Magpies look like ‘a gang of lemon sherbets’ according to The Mirror. Normally Toon fans queue all night to get their hands on the new seasons kits, but due to a boycott, just 3 supporters turned up to the launch promoting the club to heavily discount the shirts in the club store. This kit was used during Newcastle’s promotion winning season.
12. Manchester City Away 1996/97
Back in the days before any Middle Eastern money injections, City languished in the English 1st Division.
During the trophy less season of 96/97, City played in this Umbro catastrophe. The primarily white short is divided by diagonal burgundy shapes which continue out of line after the logo.
The badge is huge and the ‘Manchester City FC’ golden text at the bottom of the shirt is a random touch.
11. Manchester United Away 1995/96
It seems that the Manchester City fans at Umbro had a field day designing this Manchester United change strip. The two tone grey strip won Utd the Double that season despite having sold experienced players including Paul Ince and Hughes and not signing any big name replacements. The shirt was blamed for a defeat at Southampton. United conceded 3 first half goals, the players blamed being unable to see each other. The kit was never worn again. A successful season marred by a terrible shirt.
10. Chelsea Away 1995/96
United weren’t the only ones to don a grey strip in 1995.
This ‘granite and tangerine’ change strip shocked the football world.
They even took to oranging (sorry tangerining) up the badge. With the strange colour combination, peculiar stripes and big ‘Coors’ sponsor, this kit would look more at home on a team of old-man bowling team…
9. Peterborough United Away 1993/94
A disappointing season, topped by an equally appalling away strip. Surely the manufacturer, Posh Leisure, would have been better off leaving the kit a plain red, but no. The obviously felt at the time that the addition of randomly placed ‘paint strokes’ of differing lengths and colours would enhance the style. Unfortunately they didn’t. Rather like a novice magazine editor who had just discovered all those fancy fonts in his publishing software, the results are messy.
No, the 3rd kit is even worse!
As far as the team play with there heart for liverpool , the kit does not matter .Not many players can do it ,
Its really close between those Liverpool and Peterborough away tops, nah the Liverpool kit win the prize, Peterborough’s monstrosity was 20 years ago when just about every club kits were crimes against fashion, so their can be no excuses from Liverpool this time around for not learning from those old mistakes.