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Nice and simple enough, no garish sponsor or unnecessary designs, but it is another shirt wasted by a huge patch/space for a name and number. How did football fans ever manage to recognise players in the decades before these pointless patches were introduced...............

Does anyone actually know why shirt patches were introduced in the first place?

Seedy Loner, the solid back for striped and hooped shirts have been introduced by various competitions (the UEFA Champions League and Europa League to name just two that I know for sure) as mandatory in order to make identification of players easier for officials. The part of the back of the shirt where the number is located (but not necessarily the name, IIRC) has to be solid in the UCL and UEL. A lot of other competitions are the same way, and a lot of teams will make their shirts in compliance with this rule in case they qualify and keep the same shirt for the next season. As for when it was introduced, I don\'t know, but it was mandatory in the competitions I know of within the last 4 or 5 years I think.

We all know the reason why clubs have to have a blank panel on the back, it\'s just that no one in the whole world seems to agree with it.

I know referees are occasionally accused of being blind, but surely their eyesight isn\'t so bad that they find it impossible to read a number if there\'s stripes behind it??

The name and number on the back doesn\'t really have any impact for me when I\'m watching a football match anyway, don\'t know about anyone else, it really wouldn\'t matter to me if we went back to the old days of not having any name OR number on the back.

Leave our stripes alone, UEFA!

it\'s cheap... but you can say that almost every nike kit so far is cheap... talking about the solid panel, the combination of white and green clashes with almost every colour you put for name and numbers... try to imagine the green and white stripes, with a red number, or a black one... it\'s hard to see... it\'s awful for the fans, it\'s good for the officials...

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try to imagine the green and white stripes, with a red number, or a black one... it\'s hard to see... it\'s awful for the fans, it\'s good for the officials...

Jesus, yeah you\'re right, what a nightmare for referees - to see a big number on someone\'s back when there are stripes underneath it - impossible!

Has there been some eye disease that\'s spread round Europe, only affecting referees who take charge of Champions League and UEFA Cup matches?

Get real. Referees have no problem reading names and numbers on striped shirts in lower league matches, they had no trouble reading names and numbers on striped shirts five years ago, and they would have no trouble reading them now.

If Champions League refs all had cataracts, maybe I would accept your argument. This is just legislation for the point of legislation.

wow i did not know shirts could get any plainer than this

Ferencvaros have never had exciting kits so this offering comes as no surprise. They are generally plain.

piss off \'puskas\' you gypsy

I\'ve got a bare-knuckle fight in a couple of days, I wanna use the pikey.

Great shirt! (At least the front)

Thats a template shirt with stripes on then....how dull

IRISH MICHAEL, I SPEAK FOR EVERY USER OF THIS FINE SITE WHEN I SAY, **** OFF AND DONT COME BACK! YOU MAKE STUPID COMMENTS AND ARE GENERALLY A PIKEY TWAT, GET IN YOUR TRANSIT, PACK UP YOUR CARAVAN AND **** OFF

From the front: Excellent

From behind: Not so great.

Where can i buy this superb kit?