And the GOOD news - the Home kit will have BLACK shorts. Which is presumably why the Away Oranje has white shorts - black would have made it immeasurably better. But hey, you can't have everything and being a traditionalist at heart, I'll settle for the home being black and white. COYW
The away shirt looks worryingly Wolves-like to me. I agree that given the black trim on the shirts, black shorts would have looked better, but like Cottager I'd rather have black home shirts than black away. If black wasn't an away option, orange shorts might have looked better than white. When is the home kit being unveiled, does anyone know?
Too bad we're still wearing, Kappa cr@p, though. I guess Kappa still hasn't found a fabric that "wicks away" the sweat from the players' bodies, so our boys basically have to run around wet the whole game, unlike the teams using any other kit providers. Nike and Adidas had this material 20 years ago. Can't we switch to Puma, Adidas or Nike? Why are we stuck with these people? I'll add that NO big team anywhere in Europe wears Kappa uniforms, as far as I can tell. The biggest team I found was Werder Bremen in Germany. I know I'm in the minority, but I liked the pea-green away kits from last year.
The Club Shop says that the new away kit will be on sale on 10th July. I reckon, for commercial reason, they'll wait till a bit after that before bringing out the home kit. Not related, but I've just noticed that the 2 nudes have disappeared from the shoulders (they've slinked down to the side panels) - small mercy I suppose. http://shop.fulhamfc.com/retailprods.aspx?cat=179&h=72
I could well be on my own here but I actually like the oranje jerseys. The white shorts don't bother me and I like Kappa jerseys, they're different. After seeing a lot of other team's jerseys for next season I think our's is one of the better ones.
Dont Valencia wear Kappa too? In any case people make a big deal over these kits every year. Fact is you and I will see people struting their stuff on opening day. Fair play to them, I'll stick to my polo with the old crest - now thats a shirt.
We signed a 3 year deal with Kappa at the beginning of the 2010/11 season. Hopeful this season will be the last and we will have someone else for the 2013/14 season.
And Pompey - http://footballfashion.org/wordpress/2011/09/05/portsmouth-fc-kappa-201112-third-kit/ Whatever, they all just make me very thankful that the 'kappa' contract ends next year. Foxpro seem to be in a tad of trouble commercially, so we could well be on the look out for two new major sponsors.
I can't understand why ForeX would want to be a football sponsor, it makes me laugh at the games when the advert comes up for them and underneath has the disclaimer about the level of risk involved - seconds later you'll get one for a betting company come up with no disclaimer- bodog made me laugh the most, one minute the board says "foreign exchange trading carries a high level of risk and may not be suitable for all investors" next it's just got "BE A PLAYER - BODOG". I understand the differences between the two but it does seem a bit unfair to Forex
By the way, it's Sporting Gijon and Valladolid that wear Kappa kit in Spain. My first thought agreed with the Captain before I saw what he had written. It looks like Wolves kit.
To a Yank, it just looks like Halloween (cue the horror film series). Perhaps M. Jol will feel welcome after one year and we can go back to more traditional colors . . . .
I doubt it, oldnslow. My guess is that we're going to see an ever-changing array of away kits in coming years, as the club tries to get people to buy more and more different coloured shirts. Maybe there's research somewhere saying that if people have one red away shirt, they are less likely to buy another but would be more likely to buy one in a colour they haven't already got. I prefer the red and black away shirts of years gone by, but I don't mind them mucking about with the away colours as long as home always remains the traditional black and white, with maybe a touch of red. I think my favourite away shirt is still the AC Milan-esque away shirts from the Micky Adams promotion season (which, incidentally, I shall be wearing around Legoland on a family outing tomorrow, weather permitting. Football shirts dry out quicker if you go on any of the wet rides. Bandit: I am sorry that I shall be an embarrassment (note correct spelling!) to you.)
Thank you, Captain. I must confess I'm still getting to grips with the notion that English fans expect to buy/are expected to buy new shirts every year. In my experience, here we buy one and drag it out if we're going to a game. Any status comes from age, not current fashion.
A shirt that's one or two years old looks like you can't be bothered to buy the new one; a shirt that's ten or twenty years old looks like you're hard core and ultra-committed.
