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What’s Your Favourite Liverpool Shirt Of All Time?

The Gaffer — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:50:59 +0000

What’s your all-time favorite Liverpool shirt? Are you the type of individual who thinks it should be the classic Umbro shirt from the late seventies, or do you prefer one of the Adidas or Reebok designs?

Vote now at the excellent Some People Are On The Pitch Blog. Chris Oakley has compiled a selection of 16 classic Liverpool home shirt designs to browse through from 1969 to 2008. I have to admit that I’m quite surprised by which shirt design is currently leading the vote, so go ahead and vote for your favorite now and find out who is ahead in the poll.

Bolton Unveils New Away Shirt For 2008/2009 Season

The Gaffer — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:50:37 +0000

Bolton Wanderers have unveiled their new away shirt for the 2008/2009 season on their website. Designed and sponsored by Reebok, the new shirt is a mustard yellow color with navy blue trim.

The new Bolton away shirt features the same style as the home shirt. The shirt is available for pre-order via the club’s website and the shirt is scheduled to go on sale on August 14.

The use of the mustard yellow color makes the shirt look like a cross between a retro shirt and something a local schoolboy’s team would wear. What are your thoughts about the new Bolton away kit? Click the comments link below to share your feedback.

Top 5 Worst Football Shirt Designs Of 08/09 Premier League Season

The Gaffer — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:00:44 +0000

Sometimes it’s difficult to remove your team bias and the emotional connection you feel with the colors of your favorite club. But try, for a minute, to be objective and open minded as you read through EPL Talk’s list of the Top 5 Worst Football Shirts of the 08/09 Premier League season (in order from worst to the absolute worst):

5. Portsmouth away.

This cross between a cricket shirt and a polo shirt looks like something your grandfather would wear. The shirt won’t strike fear in opponents. Instead it’ll create a few laughs especially when you’ll see Peter Crouch wearing this ridiculous shirt. The biggest problem about the shirt is the collar. Make it a modern v-neck and the shirt wouldn’t look so outdated.

4. Liverpool away.

Before Liverpool fans bite my head off and school me on the years when the Reds previously wore a gray away strip, I still feel it was a bad idea then and it’s a bad idea now. Gray doesn’t evoke any emotions. Instead, it’s depressing and puts me to sleep. Hopefully it won’t sum up Liverpool’s performance during the 08/09 season. Of all of the colors available, why choose gray?

3. Liverpool third.

In a normal season, Liverpool’s third strip would have been voted worst kit of the year but this year the Reds face some stiff competition. Just as it’s puzzling why Liverpool and Adidas would promote a gray away shirt, it makes you wonder what they were smoking when they decided to manufacture a green third shirt which resembles a goalkeeper’s shirt more than something that Steven Gerrard would model.

2. Newcastle United away.

The above picture of Newcastle’s away shirt doesn’t accurately portray how abysmal the shirt color is. It’s purple. Yes, purple. Why on earth a club would pick purple as the color of its away shirt is beyond me. Cue a thousand Barney The Dinosaur jokes. Newcastle is already the laughing stock of the Premier League in recent years. Why give fans of the 19 other Premier League clubs such an easy target as a purple away shirt to ridicule?

1. Bolton Wanderers home.

It’s obvious that Bolton didn’t run a focus group to seek people’s opinions about the new home jersey. Or if they did, they must have surveyed sports bra enthusiasts because this is one of the worst home shirt designs I can recall in recent memory. The shirt design is best summed up by the actual descriptions from EPL Talk readers: training top, big girl’s blouse, a harness and a junior school shirt.

What are your thoughts about the above designs and are there any other ones that you feel belong in the worst shirt category? Click the comments link below and share your feedback.

New Bolton Home Shirt Revealed For 2008/2009 Season

The Gaffer — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:54:16 +0000

Bolton has unveiled their new home shirt for the 2008/2009 season. Out of all of the new shirts revealed so far this summer, Bolton’s is the most adventurous. Designed by Reebok, the shirt features the new Reebok logo, navy shoulders and a red trim.

Wanderers will also revert back to their traditional navy blue shorts for the new season.

The new shirt goes on sale to the public on July 24.

What are your thoughts about the new shirt? Post them here by clicking the comments link below.