by Harry Thursby | 27, May 2025 | New releases
The Gunners’ away strip for 2025/26 has been leaked and all but confirmed following pictures of the shirt on sale in a store. The kit uses a blue lightning bolt pattern, which is a nod to both the 1995/96 away kit and is a pattern that has featured on many...
by Harry Thursby | 27, May 2025 | On the pitch
Sometimes, looking good isn’t everything. Just ask Dominic Calvert-Lewin. The quality of a team’s shirt can sometimes seem to spur them on, and capture the identity of a memorable season through the style of their kit; see Barcelona 2008/2009, Croatia 2018...
by Harry Thursby | 23, May 2025 | On the pitch
From bankrupt to boutique, this is how Venezia FC became the most stylish team in European football. All football clubs sell shirts. And they do so in a pretty recognisable formula; take the design template the club has used for hundreds of years, make a few minor...
by Harry Thursby | 20, Apr 2025 | Interviews
There are two types of people when it comes to football shirts. The collectors – who frame them, guard them like gold and remember the exact minute the player on the back of their shirt bagged a last-ditch winner. And then there are the wearers – those who...
by Harry Thursby | 8, Jan 2025 | Societal impact, Terraces and beyond
Anyone that calls themselves a football shirt enthusiast owns at least one vintage kit. Whether it’s Arsenal’s ‘bruised banana’ shirt, the Dutch 1988 kit with its eye-catching orange triangular design, or Inter Milan’s infamous Pirelli sponsor which has been the...
