How Football Kit Fabric Actually Works
Two shirts can be made of the same material and perform completely differently. The fibre is only the starting point. What determines whether a kit…
The Facts, Stories and Ideas Behind the Beautiful Game
Two shirts can be made of the same material and perform completely differently. The fibre is only the starting point. What determines whether a kit…
White home kits are the hardest thing to buy cheaply and the easiest thing to get wrong. Every production shortcut that a coloured shirt hides,…
Most people buying a City shirt are choosing between two garments that share a colour, a crest and a name, and differ in almost every…
Put a 1998 Arsenal shirt next to a current one and the obvious differences are the collar, the sponsor and the cut. The differences that…
For most of their history Brighton & Hove Albion were a club whose kit was better known than their results. Blue and white stripes, seagull…
Two shirts can be made of the same material and perform completely differently. The fibre…
Two shirts can be made of the same material and perform completely differently. The fibre is only the starting point. What determines whether a kit is comfortable through ninety minutes…
White home kits are the hardest thing to buy cheaply and the easiest thing to get wrong. Every production shortcut that a coloured shirt hides, a white one displays. Tottenham…
Most people buying a City shirt are choosing between two garments that share a colour, a crest and a name, and differ in almost every other respect. The listings rarely…
Put a 1998 Arsenal shirt next to a current one and the obvious differences are the collar, the sponsor and the cut. The differences that matter more are invisible. The…
For most of their history Brighton & Hove Albion were a club whose kit was better known than their results. Blue and white stripes, seagull on the chest, seaside in…
Some kits are famous for a design. Newcastle United’s is famous for a pattern. Black and white vertical stripes, black shorts, black socks: it has been the same for more…
There are perhaps five colours in world football that belong to one club, and sky blue is one of them. Say the words and the mind goes straight to east…
A football shirt looks like a simple thing: a polyester top with a crest on it. It is not. The garments worn in the top flight today are engineered products,…
Every summer the same argument returns. A club releases a new shirt, the price is five pounds higher than last year, and supporters ask where the money goes. In 2026…
Few football clubs have a stronger visual identity than Liverpool. The famous red shirt has become one of the most recognisable sights in English football, worn by generations of players…