Arsenalinsider revealed that Arsenal will revert to a design based on their 1971 Double-winning kit for next 10/11 season to celebrate the Gunners' 125th anniversary.
Nike and the club are said to have agreed on a design based on the traditional red shirts with white sleeves much to the relief of supporters who had feared the club were set to abandon the white sleeves altogether.
It was thought they were set to produce an all-red shirt similar to those donated to the Gunners by Nottingham Forest in 1886.
The site also exclusively revealed that the away kit returns to a theme of yellow.
Fans seem delighted that the club have produced a kit with such historical importance. 'That simple red and white kit is iconic with the Arsenal and will sell like hot cakes,' said season-ticket holder Chris Adsett, 36.
'We've had many variations on the home shirt but the essence of all things Arsenal can be found in the '71 home top and we can only hope some of the success of that era returns to us next season.'
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So far, hearing that they are going to base their design on the very awsome 1971 kit, brings me hope for a triumphant return of the good old white sleeves. This news puts a smile on my face :)
What do you mean on the sleeves?
Surely no one is including the Highbury kit as evidence that the club was going to, "abandon the white sleeves altogether." For Christ's sake, there was a legitimate historical purpose for doing that, just as there would have been to do an all red shirt for the 125th anniversary.
Again, I like the nod to the 1970-71 side, but people got way too up in arms about the last kit with the white stripe on the sleeves. All Nike were trying to do was reinterpret a classic design.
Manufacturers just can't get a fair break. If they stick to the classics, then they are called boring or accused of selling the same old shirt year after year. If they try to get creative they are accused of destroying the history of the club or putting unnecessary frills on the kit. They just can't win.
The point I was making, which you were obviously too daft to follow, was that Nike made two kits without fully white sleeves in their 15 years worth of designing strips for the club.
The Highbury sendoff kit was part of a celebration of the club's history and the 93 years they spent at Highbury, so whether you like it or not, there was an undisputed reason for doing that kit that way.
That leaves only the current kit, 1 out of the 10 that Nike designed for Nike, as the only kit that wasn't completely white on the sleeves (aside from a bit of trim or what have you). I just don't get all of the gnashing of teeth about it.
What are they supposed to do, keep making the same kit for 15 years? I don't think you'd be happy even then, you knob. One minute you're having a go at Nike for messing with, "the theme," and then the next minute you're talking about how the big clubs should give the, "smaller more innovative companies an opporunity."
Seriously, what do you want, consistency or innovation? Moron.
Nike's first Arsenal shirts had red on the sleeves not entirely unlike the current one, and their shirts from the 04-05 season had a swath of red down the sleeves, about the same amount as there is white on Arsenal's current home shirt.
I wouldn't have minded them giving a nod to their distant past, as I think the photoshopped "leaked" pics looked pretty smart (I love the current away and third shirts), but I also love the classic '60s & '70s look.
Having said all this, I DON'T think the "poor" shirt manufacturers "can't catch a break" - they're multinational exploitative endeavors in their basest form. Now I'll give them my money and feel ashamed about it.
I was only speaking from an artistic/creative standpoint, in which, I think, it is obvious from the above, they have a false choice between innovation/creativity and consistency/respect for a club's history. They have two (mostly) mutually exclusive camps that they must alternate in pleasing.
That's why something like the Tailored by Umbro range is so groundbreaking and refreshing. They're managing to do "retro" in a way that feels innovative in the same way. Much props to Umbro and their parent Nike for pulling something like that off.
Here in Brazil, one of the largest sports equipments stores, Centauro, have the three models of Brazil's 10/11 GK shirts on sale for 190 reais (almost 110 US-dollars).
Check it on their website http://www.centauro.com.br/DetalheProduto.aspx?cm=757531&cc=02&produto=Camisa+Nike+Goleiro+Brasil+2010+S/N%C2%BA
Model 1
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Model 2
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Model 3
http://imagens.centauro.com.br/900x900/757531BKA2.jpg
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Man U always wears black socks with their home kits!!
Nice to keep tradition in kits :)
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I have always been a fan of the traditional crest.
Good news that the 70-71 team will be the inspiration. I like the present Arsenal badge. I think the Cannon Logo would look fantastic on the shorts!
If Nike nails this kit....it will be a world record sellout...
This is the official Arsenal 10/11 kits. This is during their photoshoot early this year.
It looks fake to me!
THAT'S MY HAIRCUT FRIENDO
i"m absolutely gonna buy it...
recent ones are
If they kept the same style every year then people would moan about lazy designs.
Maybe they will finally win a trophy in this kit, it will be six years since the FA Cup win in 2005 when we get to the back end of next season
Tenemos CINCO estrellas!
E você?
http://www.footballshirtculture.com/10/11-kits/york-city-2010-2011-nike-football-kit-vote.html
scroll down the forum to see it
I think it should have a fit the same as this season's Inter top.
stupid chelsea fan our away kit this year was dark blue!!!
They are damned if they do and damned if they don't.
They are damned if they do and damned if they don't.
go Man u
all u need to know is that it looks horrible
All I know is that it'll be much better than the shitty offerring you guys have got this year. ;)
All I know is that it'll be much better than the shitty offerring you guys have got this year. ;)
man u's jerseys are better than arsenals any day
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you dont make sense buddy
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Thought my computer was broke
But it is photo from 1971
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