Mexico will ditch its traditional green jersey, as coach Hugo Sanchez has claimed players are struggling to distinguish it from the grass on the field. The Mexican national team will wear white jerseys for home games and red while playing on the road.
"This is not new. I've been thinking about it since I took over," Sanchez said. "In my opinion, our green is confusing with the pitch - as grass is green. It looks like there are less players on the field."
The first study into the meanings people attach to replica football shirts and why they wear them is about to be published.
Dr Jack Fawbert, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, at the University of Bedfordshire, has completed his research study, entitled ‘Representations of Change; Community, Culture and Replica Football Shirts’, which explores the social symbolism of football shirts
He examined what shirts, their designs, sponsors and colours mean to football fans, how they 'read' them, how they interpret them and how they use them to signify their support for teams. He also looked at what the shirts signify about fans in the context of support for particular clubs and the social milieu of those clubs.
With the Premier League season underway and the top clubs all having unveiled their new kits, Sky HD surveyed 1,000 UK football fans to uncover the top 10 worst football kits of all time.
With more colours than Joseph's coat and design work that would make most WAGs turn their noses up in disgust, these kits line the corridors of world football's 'hall of shame'. We all have a personal favourite for the dubious honour of worst ever football kit and here are the top 10 according to the survey...
Just thought you guys might be interested by the following..
MSwalk.co.uk is running an auction on the following site: mswalk.co.uk to raise money for an event they organising in the summer.
7 people (The MS-NIFISCENT 7) all with varying degrees of MS will go from Edinburgh to London in one month. To raise money I've approached every club in the country for signed merchandise to auction online.
Exeter City started the ball rolling by providing a Exeter City Shirt 2006/2007 by all the players and Steve Perryman, thanks to Andy Gillard. Since then they have acquired over 50 items which we are currently uploading, so bear with them.
This is the new Derby County crest to mark the return of Premiership football to Pride Park.
The logo will appear on the Rams' new Adidas kit , which is due to go on sale in late July or early August. A circular surround replaces the previous yellow banner beneath the Ram, and the date the club was founded is also included.
Like most old football clubs, Derby County did not initially have any badge displayed on their shirts. Their first badge was introduced in 1924. The badge consisted of a circular shield spilt into three equally-sized sections, representing the club, its fans and the area, in three equally-sized sections, all containing items traditionally associated with the city of Derby: a Tudor rose and a crown in one section,
One of the most distinctive elements of FC Barcelona are the colours the players wear.
Scarlet and blue have featured on the club shirt for more than one hundred years and the club is widely known as the ‘Blaugrana’ in reference to the names of these colours in the Catalan language.
However, although the shirt has remained relatively constant in design over the years, the team shorts were white for the first ten years of club history, then switched to black, and were only blue from the 1920s onwards.Not just why Barça originally chose to wear these shirt colours has been matter of much debate among club historians, and although several theories have been put forward, nobody has ever managed to provide substantial evidence that the colours were chosen for any symbolic reason.
Extract taken from the just published book ‘Wembley: Stadium of Legends’ by Tomsett & Brand, Dewi Lewis Media 2007
Brighton and Hove Albion were enjoying a rare spell in the top flight in 1982-83, and after a good cup run their loyal fans were in disbelief to also find themselves in the 1983 FA Cup Final. However, it was no fluke that they had reached the final.Although doomed to relegation back to Division Two that season, they had claimed some major scalps on the road to Wembley, knocking out the likes of Newcastle United, Manchester City and Liverpool en route.
Inevitably they were touted as the underdogs, and rightly so considering theywere up against Manchester United. United were out to make up for their last visit to the stadiumwhen they had lost the 1979 final, but Jimmy Melia’s spirited Brighton team made a decent match of it.
The final was close and exciting, going into extra time after Gordon Smith and Gary Stevens had scored for Brighton, with Ray Wilkins and Frank Stapleton scoring for Manchester United.
Read more: Wembley : Cotton Legends 6 - Manu F.A. Cup Final 1983
