Coventry 1978. Arsenal 1991. Hull city 1993. These words are enough to strike fear across the football shirt world.
These are not notorious firms of hooligans, nor even the scenes of particularly calamitous defeats. No, they are examples of that most dreadful football kit design disasters who earned their place in football’s Hall of Shame.
Every now and then, some wild-eyed idiot in a club's marketing department gets together with a cack-handed graphic design student to create something awful.
Maire Ofeire, who has a lot of interest in football kit design, will make a random Top 10 Hall of Shame followed by a random Hall of Fame Top 10 on FSC every week.
Enjoy part 1..
10. Ajax 1989-1990
A design that appears to be typical of the time. Unfortunately it is not very nice.
9. Kaiserslautern home 1990-1991
Sometimes zigzag works, sometimes it won’t. Sadly for Kaiserslautern, this didn’t.
8. Arsenal away 1990-1991
The infamous ‘bruised banana’ kit sported by Arsenal in the early 1990s.
7. Huddersfield Town GK 1993-1994
I think you could say the Huddersfield Town’s Goalkeeping Kit of the 1993-1994 season is a cacophony of colour.
6. Tiburones Rojos de Vercruz 2000-2001 away shirt
The Mexican club seem to have hired a rugby designer to create their 2000-01 home shirt.
5. Melbourne Victory (2007-2008)
Another club who seem to have hired a rugby shirt designer.
4. Scotland 1986 Umbro
Scotland may have exited the Mexican World Cup at the group stages but they certainly left a lasting impression with this combination.
3. Hull 1993-1994 Matchwinner
Known as the ‘Tigers’, Hull took their nickname to the extreme during the early 90s.
2. York City 2002-2003
One can be forgiven for thinking that this is more suitable to Ascot than Bootham Crescent.
1. Caribous of Colorado 1978
This fetching shirt, complete with fringing, was sported by NASL side Caribous of Colorado in 1978. The Denver based team lasted a mere season and counted NFL place kicker Matt Bahr amongst their ranks.
The newly formed side of ’78 complied the worst record in the league, winning 8 and losing 22. Fortunately for the players, the team folded and moved to Atlanta the next year, leaving this jersey to top many ‘Hall’s of Shame’.
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There\'s nothing wrong with the Scotland shirt but the weird blue band on the already short, tight, white shorts makes them look even worse.
The Caribous of Colorado is probably the campest football shirt that I\'ve seen. It looks like a cheerleader\'s shirt.
It\'s not the tight shorts which were the problem, its the horizontal band going across them complete with rather odd logo placement.
1) they didn\'t \'hire\' a \'rugby shirt designer\'/Reebok, the a-league did, and like the mls all there is a league kitmaking deal in place. reebok makes all the kits for all the teams
2) on this reebok thingy, all the a-league kits are utter shite and all look like rugby shirts. and reebok also dont want the clubs to have any individuality whatsoever. by this i mean no team has stripes or hoops, and it has been reported that melbourne had a struggle getting reebok to whack a V on their chests.
3) furthermore, look at the other a-league clubs\' shirts, they\'re exceedingly shit and the replicas are also fairly tacky. like i said before, clubs kits are either plain-coloured or different sleeved-coloured (like Arsenal\'s home). the new wellington team wanted to have stripes, but reebok didnt want to give it to them.
so yeah, lets hope the league lets the teams go free range and get their own shirt deals or at least gets a quality kit supplier. i could crap a better kit than reebok could make, just look at bolton\'s.
Adidas recently did a whole line of retro clothing based on the bruised banana shirt. There were both green and grey versions of the design, as well as a more vivid interpretation of the original. You could buy banana-like track-suit tops, shirts and skirts. Splendid!
There are many worse shirts. The England goalkeeper\'s shirt from the mid-1990s that David Seaman wore for example. I believe Ian Wright politely described it thus on Radio 5 Live: \"Spunky seems to be wearing a packet of Refreshers\". Nice!
Club Reboceros de La Piedad (2da Division Mexico) MARVAL (Visitante)
Bravos de Nuevo Laredo (2da Division Mexico) MARVAL (Local)
Tiburón...¡¡¡Vibras en mi ser!!!
The Scotland (Away) WC86 kit was a bit of an oddity though. Same design as the home, but a golden yellow colour (at a time when Scotland away kits were either white or red) with navy shorts.
The biggest difference about the kit was the \"SFA\" logo which appeared on the sleeve for the very first time (why??!!)
This was the last Scotland shirt (home or away) to feature the traditional badge - they went for the shield and scroll for all the other Umbro Scotland shirts after this (to be replaced by an odd-looking oblong badge when they went to Diadora).
The WC86 shirt was probably Scotland\'s last good shirt. Ahh, the memories!!!