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May the fourths be with you Having revisited the Admiral ‘tramlines’ design with their home shirt in 2022-23, it was always a strong bet that Coventry City would produce a modern take on the brown change kit. The …

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A philosophical question Today’s date has some resonance around Arsenal squad-number changes. In 2013, after seven years wearing number 2 for Arsenal, French midfielder Abou Diaby switched to 24 in the wake of goalke…

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Is a 'wrong' low number better than a higher one?

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@arseblog.com @tim-stillman.bsky.social Carthorse Viktor Gyökeres now has 15 goals this season, the same as Hugo Ekitiké, by far the best centre-forward signed last summer 👀

Euro kit review, week ending February 20 A kit match-up we liked Metz v Auxerre, Ligue 1 The French league is very good for mashups where kits are mixed rather than just having alternative shorts or socks – we must do a bigger featu…

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A look at back at some kit match-ups over the past week

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The Woan Identity – This article has been ready to go with a few weeks, intended to coincide with Nottingham Forest playing a first knockout European game in 30 years, with two legends from that run in the dug…

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Tonight sees Nottingham Forest play their first game in a European knockout round in nearly 30 years

That 1995-96 campaign threw up some numbering oddities

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Bright idea from Real Madrid First off – yes, we know it’s probably not what most people are talking about in the wake of Real Madrid’s victory over Benfica in the Champions League on Tuesday night, but the k…

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Last night's Benfica-Real Madrid game had a noticeably different visual to their clash last month

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Arbe-low to high Just like Michael’s friend Tex on I’m Alan Partridge, I love American stuff. Obviously, my respect for the English language means that I’d never call my pickup truck ‘Convoy…

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As it still just about February 17, a short piece about Álvaro Arbeloa twice moving from number 2 to 17

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Monday Match of The Day: Crystal Palace v Queens Park Rangers, 16-2-1991 – For more on QPR kits, see the excellent Hoops Through History by Chris Guy and John Devlin The 1989-90 season was the first time that Crystal Palace wore red and blue striped home shirts in…

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OTD in 1991, Queens Park Rangers’ orange third kit had its second and final outing in strange circumstances

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Sunday poll – Napoli v Roma, 2025-26 The five-way battle for supremacy in Serie A around Christmastime has given way to Internazionale searing clear, with perhaps only rivals Milan capable of stopping them. Reigning champions Napoli a…

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Evaluating the 2025-26 kits of Napoli and Roma

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Fantasy Kit Friday – a misspent youth, part 4 Another self-indulgent trip down memory lane to the imaginary European club empire of my youth: here for part 1, part 2 and part 3. Today’s entry features the Irish and Portuguese arms of tha…

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A misspent youth, part 4

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Kit review, week ending February 13 – Thanks to our Football Kit Podcast colleague Gav Hope for this info – stay up to date with his marvellous work here Last Saturday, Norwich City beat Blackburn Rovers 2-0, a result to …

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Last week's game at Norwich was a perhaps-surprising kit first for Blackburn Rovers in 2025-26 while Arsenal bridged a six-year PL gap last night

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Twelve to Two Today is February 12, or 12-2, and it represents a switch made by three Premier League players at their current clubs. While there is an argument that the ‘second team’ would be best nu…

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Three Premier League defenders have made squad number moves at their current clubs that correspond with today's date

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Socksy football from Leeds United Given the time of publication and the sponsor history of the club involved, this could perhaps be given an ‘Evening Post’ designation. Last week, we lamented how Crystal Palace had not …

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A pleasing mashup for Leeds United at Chelsea tonight

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Socksy football from Leeds United Given the time of publication and the sponsor history of the club involved, this could perhaps be given an ‘Evening Post’ designation. Last week, we lamented how Crystal Palace had not …

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A pleasing mashup for Leeds United at Chelsea tonight

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Monday 11s – 2006 World Cup Welcome to another of our squad numbers quizzes. All of the questions in today’s edition revolve around the 2006 World Cup, which, somehow, is almost 20 years ago. As ever, best of luck and l…

New squad numbers quiz - the theme is the 2006 World Cup

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Sunday poll: Liverpool and Manchester City home kits, 2021-26 The Sunday poll was something we started doing back in the mists of the first Covid-19 lockdown in 2020. * The premise was fairly simple – take a big game on that day across one of the five m…

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Liverpool and Manchester City home kits for the past five seasons

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Sunday poll: Liverpool and Manchester City home kits, 2021-26 The Sunday poll was something we started doing back in the mists of the first Covid-19 lockdown in 2020. * The premise was fairly simple – take a big game on that day across one of the five m…

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Liverpool and Manchester City home kits for the past five seasons

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I am a sucker for horizontal stripes like that

Fantasy Kit Friday – West Ham United adidas, 2002 While adidas’s dual-layer templates introduced for the 2002 World Cup were ultra-modern in construction in order to aid players deal with high temperatures, from a distance they looked almost…

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If West Ham United had had adidas in 2002

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Six Nations once again The 2026 Guinness Six Nations Championship commenced last night – France cruised to a 36-14 win over Ireland – with televisual considerations dictating the unusual Thursday-evening slot…

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Some rugby reverie

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Euro review, week ending 1-2-26 This new series will hopefully be published on a Monday – this week was a bank holiday in Ireland, which is part of the excuse for the delayed premiere. It is intended to act as a companion p…

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The first of what will hopefully be a weekly series

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Numerical limitations Tuesday night will see the first of this year’s Carabao Cup finalists decided as Arsenal take on Chelsea in their semi-final second leg. We would expect Chelsea to be in their default kit at …

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Nearly 30 years after a common font was introduced in the Premier League, the options remain limited

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Random one, but the Japanese team I support (Cerezo Osaka) reuses the home kit (or a similar version) for the goalkeeper in some games.

Newcastle’s baselayer situation in black and white By Jay – This is Jay’s Substack – here are previous baselayer-related offerings from him on this site Baselayer time is definitely upon us. Because, despite the garments being adv…

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A guest offering looks at Newcastle's decision regarding sleeves and baselayers

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I thought about this a few years ago about teams having a keeper kit in the same colour as the home (but not just using the home kit). Last season Watford had a bespoke yellow keeper kit away to Sheffield United

Keeping things counterintuitive On Saturday afternoon, Arsenal look to get back to winning ways in the Premier League when they travel to Elland Road to take on Leeds United. * The Gunners will be in their blue second kit and we …

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Goalkeeper kits that clash with a team's home strip aren't necessarily redundant

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Fantasy Kit Friday – Liverpül, 2026 By and large, Fantasy Kit Friday generally looks backwards, reworking a familiar kit design into the colour-scheme of another team, but today is a flash-forward. Apparently, the Liverpool home stri…

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A Liverpool 2026-27 away kit suggesiton by @simonjtreanor.bsky.social

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March of the penguins On Thursday night, Birmingham City teased the return of the distinctive ‘penguin’ design as part of their 150th-anniversary celebrations. Friday morning brought confirmation of their pl…

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On Birmingham City's anniversary kit

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"Jacob Murphy, he spies the J in the club shop and he says, "That be nah good to me man!"