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Bad Kit league - Champions?

On the lighter side, this is worth 2 minutes of your time.

Compare our hideous new away kit with all the other hideous kits out this year:

http://www.maxim.co.uk/features/sport/17542/new_premier_league_kits.html

I think in ten years time we will look back at this seasons kits feel the same way as we do about the comedy kits we all see on 'Premier League Years' from the early nineties.

Enjoy, err, well, maybe not, we'd enjoy this more if our new Kit Designs not taken the piss quite as much......
Paul Fuller, Kelvedon, Essex. Posted 31/07/2009 at 06:55:30

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Dan McKie
1 Posted 31/07/2009 at 14:09:46

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I actually really like our new away kit, at least its different! I can’t wait for it to come out! The worst one has to be the silver one 2 one effort a few years back, I bought the long sleeved version! Awful!

Ray Burn
2 Posted 31/07/2009 at 14:04:59

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It does look like a league-wide effort to produce shocking designs...which is excellent!

Who ever remembers the reasonably tasteful white numbers? Give me salmon stripes or day-glo yellow every day of the week, it’s not as if I buy them either way.

Chad Schofield
3 Posted 31/07/2009 at 14:24:51

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Surely last year’s hi-vis third kit was worse!

Martin Cutler
4 Posted 31/07/2009 at 14:35:09

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Dumb question .... is the use of the pink colour on the shirt a connection to the pink lady shirts that were released a while back? I could be completely wrong with this theory but if that theory is correct then the shirt takes on a much better meaning.

There’s nothing wrong with the shirt ... it’s just the colour pink that is a bit difficult to handle ... I must admit it is a lot better than some of the shirts on the link supplied by Paul!

Jonathan Ashton
5 Posted 31/07/2009 at 14:56:43

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"Once again, Chelsea have designed their away kit with nothing but road safety in mind."

Lol

Ciarán McGlone
6 Posted 31/07/2009 at 15:57:42

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Watched the United match last night... and their away kit was shockingly bad as well.

Tony Williams
7 Posted 31/07/2009 at 16:43:40

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I don’t mind the away shirt, I would have preferred it if the motif and badge were white like the Chang.

I mean we are going to hear that we have got pink coqs on our shirt all season long, then again it will only be used away against Blackburn anyway.

Andrew Bankes
8 Posted 31/07/2009 at 16:53:06

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I have to agree with Chad Schofield, last season’s hi-vis kit was awful... my personal worst ever. You get the impression the new kit gets slagged off (particularly by a men’s magazine!) as it’s seen as being a bit too ’gay’... Hell, Pink ain’t no colour for a beer-swilling footie-loving bloke is it!!! Is it still the 1970s?!?! FFS.

Dennis Stevens
9 Posted 31/07/2009 at 17:29:38

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I like the away kit, although I’d prefer the badge in white. People shouldn’t get to uptight about the use of salmon pink, the colour is part of our kit history, after all. Apparently, our first league title was won wearing an all salmon pink shirt (mind you, we were at Anfield then — prophetic eh?). I believe you can now buy a replica of that shirt online.

Leigh Sadler
10 Posted 31/07/2009 at 20:21:57

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Sorry just off topic, Paul you live just a couple of miles from me in Essex, I live in Witham, do you get to may games?

Joeynkoo Ludden
11 Posted 01/08/2009 at 11:24:30

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I thought the 3rd kit last season was great. We won’t be wearing the away kit much this season, we will revert to the white 3rd kit most the times, as when blue clashes, black hardly stands out.

Paul Fuller
12 Posted 01/08/2009 at 20:55:09

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Hey Leigh, Good to hear from ya, yep I’m just up the road in Kelvedon. I try and get to Goodison once a season but usually go to the odd away game in London. Despite being born and bread in Essex I’ve been a Toffee since the age of 10 in 1985. How about you?

Leigh Sadler
13 Posted 01/08/2009 at 22:58:24

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Paul, same here, I was born in 1975 and started supporting Everton in 1984, just before the Milk Cup final defeat. I used to go to 10-14 games a season in the early- to mid-nineties; however, I now have 3 young children, so don't get to go as much as usual, probably just 1-2 games a season mainly in London. If I had the money I would go more, but it is hard going in the current climate.

My 10-year-old son sadly supports Spurs but he does come with me to all the matches I go to, the last one being Fulham away, last game of the season. You do see the odd Everton top in around this area of deepest Essex, on Cup Final day I saw at least 7 Everton tops in Witham Morrisons during the half-an-hour I was in there alone, compared to just one Chelsea top.

If you ever want to go to Goodison and want someone to share the petrol money with, I would be happy to do so.

Paul Fuller
14 Posted 04/08/2009 at 17:27:21

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Hi Leigh,You beat me by a year... 85.

I can’t beleive you were at the Fulham game last season, I didn’t go this year so have not yet see us win there. I was there the previous year in the rain and freezing cold and saw us loose 1-0 to boot.

For various reason I didn’t make it to Goodison last season, I do get busy on weekends and mid-week is out. But I am planning to head up this season to see the old place, so sure lets see if we can get together and head up sometime.

I work i London and see a few Everton top around. I was runnng along the thames at lunch the other day in my new Everton training vest and got some dead funny looks.... but did get one cheer, there is hope.

Is there an Essex Everton Supporters Club?

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