- Sep 2, 2013
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Our away green kit has always looked like Don Johnson and Rod Stewart time travelled from the mid 1980s to collectively throw up on it.Not this fast; they’ve been “20 quid” for months now.
This season’s “effort” by Nike- from directly copying (and subsequently pasting onto our away shirt) the pattern from Barcelona’s training tops to the hideous, absurd “bottom blue drift”-shite on our home kit (which clashes so badly with white shorts that it is literally comical)- represents a new low. How anyone on earth ok’d these three monstrosities is beyond me.
Sadly, I actually wish we could just wear our garish green 3rd shirt on Championship Saturday, as at least- as much of an eyesore as it is- it’s definitely lucky, and I’ll always have a soft spot for it.
Until the Ajax game. Now I recognise its bold design, its arresting colours. There is no greater sight currently on the planet than Lucas Moura celebrating his winning goal, green shirt, puke free, flashing triumphantly in the Dutch spring evening as he soared like a majestic peacock defying Newtonian physics, and perhaps even God himself, cresting the thermals of a footballing dream