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..would be seen in the new away kit apart from the ladies?
http://evertondirect.evertonfc.com/stores/everton/products/kit_selector.aspx?selectorid=266&portal=EJIR28L9
That has to be THE worst Everton kit I've ever seen. Even worse than the yellow/black bumbleebee striped one from around 1997.
Dean Williamson, Posted 23/07/2009 at 09:14:56
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Jamie Morgan
2 Posted 23/07/2009 at 15:01:18
2 Posted 23/07/2009 at 15:01:18
I love It!! But then again I am a raving homosexual....... ok only joking. I would like to see how bright the pink stripes are in person first, but think it's a stupid idea to ruin a black away kit (which I always like) with pink!
My fiance will wear it and so will my 4-year-old son who worringly seems to like pink. But that's it.
It could be worse, it could be the Newcastle away — now that's funny!
My fiance will wear it and so will my 4-year-old son who worringly seems to like pink. But that's it.
It could be worse, it could be the Newcastle away — now that's funny!
Paul Smiith
3 Posted 23/07/2009 at 15:06:54
3 Posted 23/07/2009 at 15:06:54
I love it! Like it says on the OS, it has taken its colouring idea from the Blackwatch kit.
I am now torn as I really like the home shirt too (although I seem to be in the minority there!!).
I am now torn as I really like the home shirt too (although I seem to be in the minority there!!).
Shane Brannigan
4 Posted 23/07/2009 at 14:57:58
4 Posted 23/07/2009 at 14:57:58
You having a laugh or just blind? It is the worst kit I've ever seen, pink FFS! Fair enough Palermo, Benfica or even Barca’s away this season is pink or whatever ya want to call it, but this is taking the piss. A 5-year-old could come with that design, black polo with stripes... feeble.
The worst thing is our beloved crest has seemed to be drown in pink, why? The crest should never be changed colour — it's a crime. Its embarrassing.
Yes, it's only a kit, and the usual posts about only a kit blah blah, but still marketing opportunities have to be thought of; surely the club will be losing vast sums of revenue on poor sales as I can't see swarms of people arriving to Goodison with this bad boy on.
The worst thing is our beloved crest has seemed to be drown in pink, why? The crest should never be changed colour — it's a crime. Its embarrassing.
Yes, it's only a kit, and the usual posts about only a kit blah blah, but still marketing opportunities have to be thought of; surely the club will be losing vast sums of revenue on poor sales as I can't see swarms of people arriving to Goodison with this bad boy on.
Simon Walker
5 Posted 23/07/2009 at 15:16:44
5 Posted 23/07/2009 at 15:16:44
I gotta agree that this is the worst kit ever, a feckin pink badge for fuck's sake.
I really like the home one though, liked it when it came out and it’s grown on me even more since seeing the boys play in it.
I really like the home one though, liked it when it came out and it’s grown on me even more since seeing the boys play in it.
Duncan McDine
6 Posted 23/07/2009 at 15:16:13
6 Posted 23/07/2009 at 15:16:13
It's not as bad as the pink 3rd kit we had a few years back (I remember them lining up away at Blackburn as we all laughed in embarrassment). The only thing I dislike is the badge in pink — that’s not on.
Joeynkoo Ludden
7 Posted 23/07/2009 at 15:31:15
7 Posted 23/07/2009 at 15:31:15
I agree with Sean, and it hasn’t been mentioned as yet, but the home kit is not the correct blue. It’s too light. The away kit is a disgrace, what's wrong with the luminous one from last season? What is the 3rd kit like does anyone know? Cus changing from blue into black isn’t much of a change...
Matthew Mackey
8 Posted 23/07/2009 at 15:31:37
8 Posted 23/07/2009 at 15:31:37
OMG OMG!
No wonder young Kyle chose Tottenham.
BK took him to one side and said "Look 'er, son, this is what you’ll be wearing on your travels". He said "Er... no thanks!"
No wonder young Kyle chose Tottenham.
BK took him to one side and said "Look 'er, son, this is what you’ll be wearing on your travels". He said "Er... no thanks!"
Anthony Hawkins
9 Posted 23/07/2009 at 15:40:27
9 Posted 23/07/2009 at 15:40:27
I very much dislike BOTH of this seasons kits. I didn’t buy last seasons home shirt as it was similar to the previous seasons that I bought, so I bought the luminous yellow shirt which I use for a change top at 5-a-side.
There is NO WAY I will be buying either kits and I was very much looking forward to getting a new home strip this season.
The Home kit may be a grower but my current mind set is definitely against it.
The away kit is just laughable. Man Utd fans were upset with their home kit - I’d much prefer ours to look like that!
There is NO WAY I will be buying either kits and I was very much looking forward to getting a new home strip this season.
The Home kit may be a grower but my current mind set is definitely against it.
The away kit is just laughable. Man Utd fans were upset with their home kit - I’d much prefer ours to look like that!
Chris Lawlor
10 Posted 23/07/2009 at 15:40:10
10 Posted 23/07/2009 at 15:40:10
I like it. The pink doesn't bother me in the slightest. If it's good enough for Barca and Juve, it's good enough for Everton. It's only a colour ffs.
Neil Vaughan
11 Posted 23/07/2009 at 15:49:27
11 Posted 23/07/2009 at 15:49:27
It’s fuckin' horrible....
Dave Usher
12 Posted 23/07/2009 at 15:42:55
12 Posted 23/07/2009 at 15:42:55
Personally like it. Will probably buy it and even wear it which will be a change really as I tend not to get the kits. Looks like it will just be two of us in the away kit then...
Shane Brannigan
13 Posted 23/07/2009 at 16:10:18
13 Posted 23/07/2009 at 16:10:18
Anyone know an American striker called Cody Arnoux? Plays with Wake Forest in the States supposed to be signing...?
Matthew Mackey
14 Posted 23/07/2009 at 16:13:20
14 Posted 23/07/2009 at 16:13:20
You might as well go the whole hog and put the word "chav" on the front. Maybe they’ll give away free colour matching base ball caps with it or a special gear knob for ya Citreaon Saxo.
For fuck's sake, why can’t we have a traditional yellow top with blue shorts?
For fuck's sake, why can’t we have a traditional yellow top with blue shorts?
Lionel Luthor
15 Posted 23/07/2009 at 16:40:41
15 Posted 23/07/2009 at 16:40:41
Home kit is bearable, the away one is awful. Saying that, I’m not actually arsed. More pressing matters etc.... you know, like new players to actually wear it.
John Lloyd
16 Posted 23/07/2009 at 16:42:46
16 Posted 23/07/2009 at 16:42:46
It's fucking quality, you moaning fuckers! Hahaha.
Cant believe the outrage cos it's got pink on! You gang of closet lifters!! I like it, I may even buy it.... I haven't bought one since 97 (I was 16/17) cos they’re a rip-off and fans look like twats in them! Hahaha. But that's a nice change strip for the boys.
Cant believe the outrage cos it's got pink on! You gang of closet lifters!! I like it, I may even buy it.... I haven't bought one since 97 (I was 16/17) cos they’re a rip-off and fans look like twats in them! Hahaha. But that's a nice change strip for the boys.
Paul Smiith
17 Posted 23/07/2009 at 16:46:12
17 Posted 23/07/2009 at 16:46:12
The colour comes from our history (Blackwatch) we could have had a big pink stripe diagonally across it instead if you prefer???!!!
http://www.toffs.com/content/ebiz/toffs/invt/1590/1590m.jpg
Personally, I like it although I have to say I didn’t notice the pinkness of the badge until it was mentioned. Not sure how you would change it though without it looking odd.
http://www.toffs.com/content/ebiz/toffs/invt/1590/1590m.jpg
Personally, I like it although I have to say I didn’t notice the pinkness of the badge until it was mentioned. Not sure how you would change it though without it looking odd.
Paul Baxter
18 Posted 23/07/2009 at 16:39:25
18 Posted 23/07/2009 at 16:39:25
Hmm... wouldn’t wear it myself but it could further my plans to save my girlfriend’s niece from being red-manc brainwashed by her family.
The pink Everton romper suit went down ok considering she’s surronded by fans of the Salford Red Devil Soccer-Kickers. If it’s pink, it’s got a chance of being worn...
Ean Palese
19 Posted 23/07/2009 at 16:57:41
19 Posted 23/07/2009 at 16:57:41
Awful. I already have the home version and thought it is not great, it makes you hope that we never have an away match!
Chad Schofield
20 Posted 23/07/2009 at 17:18:10
20 Posted 23/07/2009 at 17:18:10
I actually think it looks pretty good.
Jimmy Hacking
21 Posted 23/07/2009 at 17:18:02
21 Posted 23/07/2009 at 17:18:02
I don’t actually have a problem with the colour pink, but what makes this a truly horrendous football shirt in my opinion is as follows
1) The shade of pink. It's like one of those cheap neon marker pens
2) Making our badge pink. It’s like some toddler has got his hands on said marker pen and shaded in the badge on his dad’s shirt.
3) The ’Chang’ looks bloody ridiculous in stark white. I mean, If they had to change the colour of an 81-year-old Crest, why not go the whole hog and do the corporate logo as well? I guess this speaks volumes about where the club’s priorities lie.
4) It DOESN'T EVEN LOOK LIKE A FOOTBALL KIT. Take away the badge and the Chang, and you have a Primark £3.50 Polo shirt fit only for the most scalliest of scallies.
5) Like the home shirt, it looks cheap and crappy and AARGH!!! IT'S JUST HORRIBLE!
1) The shade of pink. It's like one of those cheap neon marker pens
2) Making our badge pink. It’s like some toddler has got his hands on said marker pen and shaded in the badge on his dad’s shirt.
3) The ’Chang’ looks bloody ridiculous in stark white. I mean, If they had to change the colour of an 81-year-old Crest, why not go the whole hog and do the corporate logo as well? I guess this speaks volumes about where the club’s priorities lie.
4) It DOESN'T EVEN LOOK LIKE A FOOTBALL KIT. Take away the badge and the Chang, and you have a Primark £3.50 Polo shirt fit only for the most scalliest of scallies.
5) Like the home shirt, it looks cheap and crappy and AARGH!!! IT'S JUST HORRIBLE!
John Martin
22 Posted 23/07/2009 at 17:26:34
22 Posted 23/07/2009 at 17:26:34
The new away kit is horible, even worse than our new home kit. For the 1st season in years, I wont be buying a new shirt unless we have a 3rd one that's a lot better. I believe our kits to be in keeping with another summer of frustration and embarrassing our club. I am sure lots of women will wear it but can't imagine many locals wearing it.
Tony Williams
23 Posted 23/07/2009 at 17:31:11
23 Posted 23/07/2009 at 17:31:11
Ha ha, it’s salmon not pink.
I actually don’t mind it and I am secure enough in my sexuality to wear pink.
Will I buy it????? Will I fuck....
I actually don’t mind it and I am secure enough in my sexuality to wear pink.
Will I buy it????? Will I fuck....
Gerry Quinn
24 Posted 23/07/2009 at 18:19:49
24 Posted 23/07/2009 at 18:19:49
Nobody seems to have mentioned the saying, quote, "It takes a MAN to wear pink!"
I’d go for it — the shirt, that is!There are a lot worse around — and I can see what they are trying to achieve regarding our history — is it the same salmon pink that the blues, nee pinks, used to wear?
Gerry Quinn
25 Posted 23/07/2009 at 18:28:58
25 Posted 23/07/2009 at 18:28:58
....but I would draw the line at wearing the flowing pink chiffon capes that Pienaar has on his website photos - won’t that be a safety hazard on the pitch?
Brian Waring
26 Posted 23/07/2009 at 18:39:36
26 Posted 23/07/2009 at 18:39:36
Them socks!!!!!!!!!!
Dennis Stevens
27 Posted 23/07/2009 at 18:55:52
27 Posted 23/07/2009 at 18:55:52
I like the kit, apart from the badge. Anyway, didn’t we first win the title wearing salmon pink? If we hadn’t changed to bue it could have still been the first team shirt colour - like Palermo. Mind you we were still at Anfield back then!
Alan Clarke
28 Posted 23/07/2009 at 19:04:20
28 Posted 23/07/2009 at 19:04:20
Let's hope we won’t be seeing Osman in it hey? I’ve still managed to turn a thread about kit into a criticism of Osman.
Eugene Ruane
29 Posted 23/07/2009 at 19:06:15
29 Posted 23/07/2009 at 19:06:15
Yeah cool, I agree with Dave Usher mate. In fact I’d go ever so slightly further and suggest we play in all red, which pink almost is anyway..type-stuff!. Why be so fuddy-duddy dudes? Get over it and get with it! And as Chris Lawlor says "it’s only a colour ffs". Spot on Chris mate you tell it like it.....
SFX: WooooaaaaAAAHHHHH.... RrrrrrrrRRRRRRRRUUUUUMMMMBLE!!!!
(Alan Ball spinning in his grave)
SFX: WooooaaaaAAAHHHHH.... RrrrrrrrRRRRRRRRUUUUUMMMMBLE!!!!
(Alan Ball spinning in his grave)
Ryan Sloan
30 Posted 23/07/2009 at 20:00:29
30 Posted 23/07/2009 at 20:00:29
I saw this a couple a months back and thought it was a wind-up. Le Coq Sportif is a disgrace, no-one would want to be seen dead in this.
Michael Jennings
31 Posted 23/07/2009 at 21:47:23
31 Posted 23/07/2009 at 21:47:23
Everton fans in the match are only any good when they're angry anyway so shit kits and no summer signings will get the Park Enders right in the zone. All we need now is You’ll Never Walk Alone to come on in a big midweek cup game and they’ll suck the ball into the goal, COYB.
Graham McCann
32 Posted 23/07/2009 at 21:52:24
32 Posted 23/07/2009 at 21:52:24
Worst kit ever: The Gary Lineker season (85-86) that awful white bib.... Again by Le Coq Sportif!!!
Mike Allison
33 Posted 23/07/2009 at 22:36:23
33 Posted 23/07/2009 at 22:36:23
I don’t mind pink in the slightest, I own a Palermo home shirt from a few years ago, but I do mind the nasty chavved up horizontal stripes that make it look like some Lacoste polo shirt to go with your new baseball cap.
James Craig
34 Posted 23/07/2009 at 23:02:35
34 Posted 23/07/2009 at 23:02:35
I like it, just wish the badge was white like the Chang logo. It’s obviously the marketing people capitalizing on the demand for the pink jerseys.
Definitely buying it. The home kit’s growing on me too.
Definitely buying it. The home kit’s growing on me too.
Karl Masters
35 Posted 23/07/2009 at 23:39:59
35 Posted 23/07/2009 at 23:39:59
The females will buy it in droves.
Very clever marketing, but I agree the badge should not have been pink.
Shorts look a bit long too, but that’s only a minor point.
Home Kit is a lighter shade of blue to mimic the 84-85 one which was the same shade. Don’t like the big white V much, but at least it’s unique and not identikit like last season.
Very clever marketing, but I agree the badge should not have been pink.
Shorts look a bit long too, but that’s only a minor point.
Home Kit is a lighter shade of blue to mimic the 84-85 one which was the same shade. Don’t like the big white V much, but at least it’s unique and not identikit like last season.
Gareth Cooper
36 Posted 24/07/2009 at 09:42:16
36 Posted 24/07/2009 at 09:42:16
I really like it! I’m not a fan of the home kit this year, so will probably be wearing the away kit. Just a question of taste I suppose.
Ian Winstanley
37 Posted 24/07/2009 at 09:41:04
37 Posted 24/07/2009 at 09:41:04
So the team are seriously going to be turning up at away matches with a Pink Coq on their shirts?
Should be character building for the team and the away fans.
Should be character building for the team and the away fans.
Matthew Tait
38 Posted 24/07/2009 at 10:05:12
38 Posted 24/07/2009 at 10:05:12
Nice polo shirt, would be a good look down the pub. Shame about that weird pink smudge on the left tit though.
Damian Scott
39 Posted 24/07/2009 at 10:52:08
39 Posted 24/07/2009 at 10:52:08
I have to say... I like it. As a whole kit, because of the black shorts and socks, I think it works well.
The ’electric pink’ and not just ’pink’ is what I think saves the shirt to be honest...
Don’t know if i’ll buy it, but I think it looks quite smart, especially the collar.
The ’electric pink’ and not just ’pink’ is what I think saves the shirt to be honest...
Don’t know if i’ll buy it, but I think it looks quite smart, especially the collar.
Jimmy Hacking
40 Posted 24/07/2009 at 11:35:28
40 Posted 24/07/2009 at 11:35:28
Aaargh just noticed the socks!
Paul Dalton
41 Posted 24/07/2009 at 11:50:18
41 Posted 24/07/2009 at 11:50:18
Nice shirt for the ladies but they forgot one minor detail, its the mens team who will be playing in it!
I thought the home kit was bad but this is a joke. Have already had a load of texts from my "dirty red" mates taking the piss!
Lets get some new faces in the squad and I wont give a monkeys what kit they are playing in next season! COYB
I thought the home kit was bad but this is a joke. Have already had a load of texts from my "dirty red" mates taking the piss!
Lets get some new faces in the squad and I wont give a monkeys what kit they are playing in next season! COYB
Tom Bowers
42 Posted 24/07/2009 at 13:39:52
42 Posted 24/07/2009 at 13:39:52
Okay guys, all joking apart, the kit is not very appealing but then it’s not a fashion show the Blues are embarking on. If they get enough good results wearing it, who cares?
Ed Fitzgerald
43 Posted 24/07/2009 at 14:44:43
43 Posted 24/07/2009 at 14:44:43
Fucking hell, there some latent homosexual panic being expressed here as well as some dodgy knowledge of our history.
The kits are ok, both home and away. The first time we won the league we wore ruby red shirts with blue trim and blue shorts. The sash on the Black Watch strip was crimson or red — not pink. We also played in pink and white halves before the turn of the century too.
The blue on the current home strip is lighter than one we have worn of late but is nearer to the shade of blue worn in 85.
Will Leaf
44 Posted 24/07/2009 at 16:27:50
44 Posted 24/07/2009 at 16:27:50
Newcastle’s Away strip wins by seven lengths. Pity it will not be gracing the Premiership next season.
http://www.sport.co.uk/news/Football/23881/ Get_your_kits_out_for_the_lads! _Evertons_PINK_nightmare_upstages_Newcastle!!!_.aspx
http://www.sport.co.uk/news/Football/23881/ Get_your_kits_out_for_the_lads! _Evertons_PINK_nightmare_upstages_Newcastle!!!_.aspx
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