Best Kit Ever.

Following on from the Name That Strip thingee, what do you regard as your top three football kits of all time? For whatever reason, style, colours, personal memories, what moves your groove (or grooves your move, or, um, something).

Mine are, in order;

1) Holland 1974. The orange adidas (except for Cruyff, of course, who wore two stripes down his shirt sleeves and shorts instead of three due to contractual obligations with Puma) masterpiece, my favourite as I fell in love with the game at this time and this side were the guys who ignited my passion). Exotic numbering too; they were numbered alphabetically, again, except for the obstinate Cruyff, who should have been number 1, but got his preferred 14.

2) Coventry circa 1977-78. The all light blue Admiral number with the white and black trim from the shoulder to the bottom of the shorts. This was also the time of their infamous all-brown affair, which they agreed to wear as a favour to Admiral who had incorrectly ordered a run of brown material from their supplier and couldn't return it.

3) Brazil circa 1958. Very similar to the kit they were wearing in 1970, but with a proper collar instead of the round t-shirt neck. Designed by a chap called Aldyr Schlee in 1953, using the colours of the flag.

 

Bubbling under; Leyton Orient tramlines circa 1978-79 (red away), LA Aztecs all orange as worn by Best, Liverpool's late 80's silver/grey with red trim away kit, Middlesbrough's Jack Charlton designed mid 70's ensemble with the broad white chest band and Eastern Suburbs braver-than-brave whie with brown centre-panelled kit from the late 70's.

 

Here is the great coventry brown one

 

 

Wales had a class one at the time, with the same style, but red with yellow and white down the side of it.  I used to have that shirt as a kid.

Admiral were one of the real innovators back then. Some of their kits worked - like the Coventry one, the Spurs one with the logos around the collar and the first England kit they made, as organised through Don Revie and his Admiral/Leeds connections. Others didn't, Leicester City, Palace yellow away.

I'm chuffed as Orient have brought back the old red away braces strip as their home kit for next season.

 

 

 

Fluminese.

would have to be my fav, plain and simple, no manufacturers logo.

Celtic (and Oldham) had a horror-story fluoro freen with jagged white and black chest panel in the early ninties that was I think the worst kit ever.

Best kit ever has to be any Everton kit, ever, especially the 1920 Dixie Dean one with the string tie up. Classic all Blue with the old school EFC logo. NO ADVERTISING

 

Big call mate; we've had some shockers in the past!

The new Everton strip aint that pretty

those white stripes  wtf is that about.

 

Sadly, the away kit at this time was a nightmare, yellow with these weirdo black shoulder thingees.

 

i think england should bring back the red numbers aswell