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Football's shocking new kits

Author: John Harris
Date: 18/08/2009
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The 2009/10 season is officially underway and already there is plenty to talk about on and off the pitch.

However, a slight grey area is the talk of new kits. Despite millions of pounds being spent on top-class talent in the Premier League and Championship, the same can not be said for some of the new threads that the superstar players will be donning.

Manchester United are neighbours of rugby league club Salford City Reds and it may well have been the case that the postal addresses of the two clubs got mixed up.

It's fair to say that the Premier League champions' new kit would not look out of place in Super League.

To be fair to the manufacturers, the club's away shirt works much better than the black vee on the famous red shirt. A similar design sees a blue chevron on a black shirt.

But it is guaranteed that the levels of football at Old Trafford this season will eclipse the standard of fashion.

Sir Alex Ferguson will hope his sportsbook league favourites put more thought into their jobs than the designers did.

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Wigan have staked their claim to be wearing the worst shirt of the year, with new kit manufacturer Vandanel trying to capture the imagination of the town with an away kit based on the 1978 Netherlands team.

While the Dutch kits are always stylish, this Wigan effort looks like the product of a colour mix-up.

A hideous 'V' for Vandanel is plastered all over the shirt which makes it that bit worse.

Maybe the Latics should be renamed the Satsumas next season?

And spare a thought for Everton fans. The Toffees claim to be the 'People's club', but their new away shirt is a slap in the face for fans who wanted to purchase a stylish new shirt to wear at Goodison Park next season.

The shirt is black with thin pink hoops. It was launched in Liverpool by a group of muscle-bound Maoris performing the Haka, but it would have been more appropriate if it was the salmon dance.

And how can Newcastle United be omitted from the bad kit discussion of this year?

Their 'fresh' yellow and more yellow stripes may give them an advantage at away grounds in the Championship though, as the opposition players will struggle to look directly at the shirts without solar eclipse goggles on.

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