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Queen's Park for this season, the sixth in a row in which it will be used (of which this is the third season with the new Irn-Bru logo). Some class they got to refuse milking their fans with merch;

Closer look

[All things Dundee FC]

Is Dundee even close to grabbing a draw at this point? Matchup with Hibs next week not looking like it's gonna yield a point or three, is it?

[Edinburgh City]

Off to League 1 with you lot, and don't come back any time soon. Some job the squad and backroom team are doing this season.

[The Queen's Park 2018-19 Thread]

What's the correct way of referring to QP's stripes; inch stripes or one inch stripes?

[Elgin City 2018/19]

How has Elgin's play been so far this season?

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Pardon the terribad collage skills, but I slapped together an overview of the 17 gambling sponsored home shirts in the English Championship. 32RED features no less than five times, LeoVegas twice, and ten online casinos/bookies have a single club each. Centre of the image shows the gambling awareness sleeve badge all teams will wear;

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It's like Nike and adidas WANT to trigger epileptic seizures with those training kits, good grief.

Then again, I just stumbled across what might be the second-worst use of Condivo so far (second only to Anderlecht's skin suits). The chicken is the prize for winning man of the match, I've been told;

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In what is surely the most tinpot thing ever, Forest Green Rovers have stuck three stars onto the back of their shirts, of which one is gold and the other two greyed out.

I shit ye not, the club says the two gray stars stand for the ambition of the chairman to get the club promoted twice more, to the Championship.....

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Club Leones Negros, of the Mexican Ascensio (their equivalent of the Championship, really). Makes you wonder why tricoloured strips hardly ever pop up in Europe; a few clubs wore them back in Victorian times (Bolton, for one), but nowadays I can only really note Willem II down as having stripes in three colours.

With this colour combo, it'd be an incredibly effective away shirt for most Scottish clubs.

[Italian Football Thread]

Herman was kind enough to enlighten me regarding the situation of Bassano and Vicenza-whatever-they-are-called now, but I don't understand why the owner is fusing both clubs now that Vicenza has gone bust. Couldn't he have just bought the old club outright whenever he wanted in the past?

Italian football is confusing, man.

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On 29-7-2018 at 11:22, Herman Hessian said:

Vicenza - temporary shirts for fiendlies and coppa italia games; "proper" new shirts from macron yet to be unveiled...

 

 

ETA - looks like these are their shirts for the forthcoming season - the Macron tie-up is as "technical sponsor" - no kit supply involved

Talk me through this, why the knot rather than the regular crest? Made me check whether Vicenza were the latest in a long line of defunct clubs going phoenix with a slightly new name.

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Ze goggles, zey do nothing

[The East Fife Thread]

Ross Brown to Berwick for the season, should we be happy?

[Livingston - all the threads merged]

Ross Brown signs for Berwick Rangers. Is he any good in the few games he played with Livi?

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4 hours ago, Herman Hessian said:

not compared to Bedale FC's follow-up to last year's sausage shirts - they've gone full-on mustard and ketchup on a hot-dog this year !

I have to say, Bedale is probably way behind the A-League teams. They'll be playing ketchup for years to come.

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New cup kit for Australian A-League side Central Coast Mariners - isn't it saucy?

[Heart of Midlothian 2014-]

'Member this Johnsen lad? I thought he was rank when he came to the Netherlands, didn't do much early on in the season, but turnt up the style and ended up scoring 19 league goals. He's been transferred from ADO Den Haag to AZ now, for about 2.5 million GBP

[Menzel's Czech Fitba Thread]

On 22-7-2018 at 22:32, Menzel said:

Had no idea the bigots were your team.

Are they? Tbh they offered me a job on Football Manager and that creates a bond.

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'Member the Icelandic kits at the World Cup? Unionistas de Salamanca of the Spanish third tier 'member! Their fans got to vote for the design of their new home kit, with this one receiving overwhelming support; combining the sleeve patterns of Iceland with a rather scribbly diagonal, it looks like pure sex (if sex to you also somehow involves an elephant);

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1 hour ago, Miguel Sanchez said:

The new thing is a gradient into the shorts at the bottom of the top. Honking.

You think that's honking? Just wait til they play in Europe, where UEFA rules stipulate they must wear white shorts with that top.....

 

Everton actually looks good in a 90's kind of way, it's just that Angry birds remains the dumbest sleevesponsor in the Premier League.

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24 minutes ago, Ivo den Bieman said:

Back to the early 90s for Blackburn, too. It really is the misplaced nostalgia season (although this shirt bar the shitty sponsor isn't bad)

To be fair, that 90's kit, and this one too, are modelled after the light blue Blackburn adopted back in 1882; the last time they revisited it was in 2015, just seems another way to make the shirts stand out seeing as you have to introduce new ones each year. The 18/19 kit has the halves correct (light blue on the right, white on the left), but the awkward raglan sleeves and collar make it look a bit blocky.

The sponsor is absolute shite, but then I don't know if 32RED, LeoVegas, Dafabet, and their ilk would have been better.

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14 hours ago, Herman Hessian said:

a special Europa League only shirt for Lazio:

Oh that's rank, can we petition Lazio to just always play in that lovely new home kit? This third shirt looks like a training top from the late 00's.

Much in the vein of Home United, whose third kit was posted on the previous page, Tampines Rovers have introduced a continental kit for use in the AFC Cup as well. Again, bit pointless, because the away kit is blue already, so white and blue stripes as third option is beyond my understanding.

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Bit of shameless self-promotion here, but I nabbed a matchworn SC Telstar away shirt at their Open Day last Saturday. Although the season has yet to start, these were donned in the away tie versus De Graafschap in last season's promotion play-offs. Quite a nifty number, wrote a needlessly long piece about it right here;

https://club25football.wordpress.com/2018/07/16/machworn-sc-telstar-2018-2019-special-shirt/

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Norridge Sitty, away shirt. Sponsor fucks it all up, otherwise a very lovely affair;

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Missed the pic of the tartan underneath the arms, which connect front and sidepanels. Honestly not as shite as I was expecting; just a case of a club forgetting 'less is more'. If they took the chip shop blue and tartan cross off, it'd be perfectly servicable. Will get on clearance for my SFL collection since it's better than the crappy Joma stuff.