As Ade says in the new training video on OS, it doesn't matter about the how good we look in the kit, all that matters is how good our football looks and we are winning 3 points each game.
You see, this is the crux of the problem: I feel strongly that this statement just isn't true. Perhaps the reason why I keep repeating myself is because I keep seeing this line over and over and over again and to me it's just not the case.
For example: most people liked last year's kit- including me. Was it perfect? No. But was it, overall, pleasing to the eye? Yes. You think so, I think so, MOST people think so. And they thought so when it first came out. There were NOT a "bunch of varying opinions," there were NOT "a bunch of people who hated it"- on the contrary, pretty much everyone really liked it!
Same with the kit the year before that (UA's first attempt)- you liked it, I liked it, most people liked it. And in fact you know which particular shirt out of the three most people really liked two seasons ago? Why, the away shirt- that navy blue "Aurasma" shirt of course! The one that looked incredible!
Do you know which shirt most people liked the least from that campaign?
Answer: the 3rd shirt (the black and grey one). Most people just didn't like that shirt.
How about last season- which was the shirt most people liked? The answer- of course- is the third shirt, which was clearly the pick of the litter.
The home shirt was the second favorite of most people, and the light blue away top came in a distant third.
Now you're going to say "how do you know this? What proof do you have?" The answer: none. I just know from reading people's opinions and trusting my gut. I mean think about it: could you seriously try and argue with me that that black-and-grey number from two seasons ago wasn't the least-liked shirt of that year?
Look- brother- there's no way to "prove" I'm right; an in fact even if I did a poll I'd have people claiming that "it's only SCers- and SC doesn't represent Spurs fans" (even though I highly disagree). But regardless, I will forever maintain that there IS an overall consensus when it comes to how our kit looks- so that even though someone has a friend who loves that black-and-grey kit, we all know full well that most of us hate it. Just like we all know that everyone and their mother reviles that piss-streak Mansion home shirt from 2009-10 (the fact that we made Champions League in it notwithstanding).
My point is that people aren't stupid- most can see when something looks good, and when something doesn't. So no, people don't "hate the kit every year." People like the kits that look good and don't like the ones that don't. This year is a giant "don't."
To further prove my point: I would bet any amount of money that you couldn't come up with a negative comment regarding our first "Investec" Cup shirt if you tried. There isn't a Spurs fan alive who doesn't like this shirt:
Of course - we rarely have kits I actually like, but it's not important.All about the season really. The piss streaks kit was awful but when I see it I think of the great season, the emergence of Bale, beating Arsenal, Chelsea and City in the space of a few games.
By contrast the beautiful plain white Puma kit is fantastic to look at but just reminds me of us pissing away a 13 point lead and somehow achieving nothing with Luka, Bale, King, Parker, Rafa and Good Ade all playing.
Would be ideal to have a good kit and a good season but at the end of the day it's a pretty trivial thing, the season will make the jersey,
Ade on the kit
"Its nice, its nice and err
Its very comfortable, and err
The fabrics are all good and err
Its a good quality, shirt buts it not about the shirt"
I think that sums up the kit perfectly
could be worse, our sponsor could look like this...So did everyone hate the 90s kit Klinsmann wore just because it had yellow trim on the sleeves?
Hmm probably not!
Are you the old kit designer from Puma that lost his job? Your other 97 posts are the same as this one and you're starting to sound like a jilted lover. I can't believe anyone is seriously as upset as you seem to have been since the kit first got leaked.
I don't think you realise that every season on this board for the first month or so of the season, the vast majority of posters in the kit thread hate the new kit. Go back and look at the old threads, I'm not making it up. By the time we've played a few games in it, the opinions start to change and by september nobody gives a withered bollock if there's a stripe out of place or if that certain shade of blue is too light for them to handle.
At the end of the day we're here for football not fashion. If we have a good season in this kit it will be remembered fondly and if we have a bad one it will be forgotten.
To further prove my point: I would bet any amount of money that you couldn't come up with a negative comment regarding our first "Investec" Cup shirt if you tried. There isn't a Spurs fan alive who doesn't like this shirt:
It seems you must be a defoe fan for you to mock it up and I hate to break it you, but Defoe left in februaryI mocked up a couple new pictures to show what they might look like being worn by players, obviously ignore Defoe being in the picture it was just the best picture of a previous Spurs black kit I could find.
I like that United kit aside from the sponsor. With the sponsor it looks like some kind of weird Iron Man thing going on. They should have just had the word Chevrolet without the image.