Sweden is a bit less embarrassing to lose to though 🥲

CBS owns the rights but only selects a few to air “live” via Golazo or the app

World Cup qualifying

Sweden not Switzerland 😅

Very curious to me how they price after this winter of no snow and umm well yea no thanks (I just did the copper 5 pack this year but still haven’t used a day)

Also a pretty quick turnaround from the announcement

Anyway this headline is kinda bullshit clickbait

Most of Arsenal’s commercial deals are done jointly and allocated to the women via this avenue (Adidas merch, kit sponsors, stadium sponsors, etc). If valued on its own, who knows what those amounts would be

Allocation from parent club includes allocation of club deals that aren’t specific to either team (adidas merch sales, kit sponsors, stadium sponsors etc). Plus it highlights how shitty prize money in the women’s game still is. (And it’s normal in professional sports to not be profitable)

I don’t think there is one, will probably be a range of pretty casually dressed families to some people dressed for a night out!

Did the hat company pay USSF or TNT a lot of money? Lol that is a lot of hats 🤠

Can take a guess at who will be on Summit set pieces this season

You can issue a card after we score thanks

This referee had truly never heard the meaning of playing advantage

He’s been unemployed for a long time, why did this take so long?

Cincy didn’t want to pay the expansion price required 18 months ago and it’s only gone up, I’d be curious what their perspective on that is now

2027 NWSL kits were already submitted last year. I expect denver to still be meh. 2028 kits are being submitted now, Atlanta can actually submit something (although a lot of brand decisions still TBD) but the other expansion team is a bit shit out of luck… hmm sounds familiar to 2 years ago.

Congrats Spirits on finally getting your cherry blossoms after 14 years (but I really dislike the way the back looks)

I am most confused by the new Portland kit and why Portland is sticking with this more muted red and the pale yellow

Was in all day meetings with no phone but getting to brand a white kit as the snow kit citing new beginnings and fresh starts is a hilarious story to me that makes me enjoy it more actually (especially in a winter where we’ve had no snow). Plus some side trim that wasn’t noticeable from front shot

Would love to know, I’m just saying I don’t think it’s as basic as team submits something and Nike makes it. Nike is a big pain in the ass retailer. Maybe it’s committing to certain volumes, maybe it’s something else but I think the discourse this week is showing how little anyone knows

I think the expansion teams have 2 and the rest have 1 so 17 would be a strange number but I guess we’ll find out tomorrow

I believe it’s 18 kits. A mix of third kits and some new home/ away refreshes

Which seems similar to the green in the trim. Anyway the way they could’ve spun the kit into a cooler story is to say that those colors are a nod to the original ForDenver FC fan led movement that got them here but I don’t think it’s been articulated that way

I tried to scroll back to the colors they first used at the announcement but it’s pretty much just green and white that I could find. The ForDenver FC movement had the pale yellow, pink, a more olive green and a bit of that blue 🤷‍♀️

My guess is they thought there’d be a blue sky or water element but the crest designer went in a different direction (which is fine and cool but creates a mismatch for this season)

Yellow and orange were not part of the colors until the crest which was months after the Nike deadline

Pre match is the same as I think KC and maybe others? I don’t understand the blank circles

Brand power dictates priority. Adidas pay £75M/ yr to Arsenal to crank and sell as much merch as they can. I suspect the league sponsorship needs to carry more weight and dictate more parameters etc for teams. That’s the actual curious discussion

What I actually think would be interesting to know for NWSL kits is what parameters Nike gives teams. I don’t actually believe that none of these teams are capable of designing a kit, my guess is that for a variety of reasons things get shot down and I’d be interested in that deep dive.