Footy kits
A footy shirt made from a Peter Stringfellow g-string. Nice
He needs to give Ed his shorts back
Good match for my trabs
New Chelsea shirt boring as fuck
Borussia Dortmund fairly minging. Looks like an early 90s effort from the lower English leagues, one that was made by a shite brand like Matchwinner or Ribero, you know the ones…
The new Chelsea kit is boss.
Pared back and stylish.
A bit like me in some regards.
Yeah, nasty isn’t it? Just doesn’t work.
Pete Doherty once said “there are fewer more distressing sights than that of an Englishman in a baseball cap”. I feel a bit like that about grown men in replica football shirts.
alistair The only time I ever wear one is when your on holiday and head to a bar to watch the football on a Saturday. You get some decent bants if there’re are a few in. I regrettably wore a Bolton shirt the season we got relegated from the Prem in 2012 - took some awful stick that day.
Anyone wearing a replica football kit needs shooting.
The problem with footy shirts is birds don’t get them. A bloke might think “cool, he’s wearing a 1990 Sampdoria shirt, absolute classic… great taste” and a bird would just think “he’s a massive football fan… swervioh”
Footy shirts and rugby shirts, same boat, never to be worn as a fashion item.
Was lunching with a rugby fan on Sunday who was rocking boot cut jeans and brown pointy shoes.
Which was nice.
Can see Dixon rocking that.
He did
Oi oi!
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I have a wide variety of kits. …Quite a few Germany, Bayern and the odd sprinkling of Toronto FC, Canada and a canary and green AC Milan top that I believe is from the Champion’s League a few years ago that I absolutely love.
Adidas makes the best kits in my opinion. Recent designs are harking back to late 80s or early 1990s and I’m not as much of a fan… Although the current Germany white kit is pretty swish.
Macron has the league rights for the new Canadian Premier League and my ‘local’ team Hamilton Forge FC picked the worst colours known to mankind:
That genuinely looks like someone just lost their lunch of tomato soup. I want to support them, but I just can’t based on those colours alone - even though they’ve won the league the last two years in a row.
loopdokter Macron has the league rights for the new Canadian Premier League
Yup, that tracks. 
My favourite Canadian footballer of all time is Paul Peschisolido.
Cheers.
Macron are the kind of sportswear manufacturer whose products Yant would willingly buy (not just if they were making his team’s shirt).
He’d be bang into Macron gear - squash bag and everything.
Also, said it before, footy shirts just aren’t a good look on blokes really.
Even if you have a really boss top, something like a 1980s Buitoni-sponsored Napoli shirt, birds would just be like “ugh, he likes football so much he even wears football shirts when he goes out… S to the WERVE”
Dave, if you’re rocking a boss football shirt and you’re backing it up with top top bants, you’re absolutely golden chief.
You know that.
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mono-stereo Yup, that tracks.
We already have the MLS, which does have some decent footy in it from the upper tier teams (thankfully of which Toronto FC now is after scraping the bottom for well over a decade). I’ve been to a Forge FC game and watched a few on telly and yeah. It’s not pretty. Lots of sloppy play, cards due to careless challenges, etc. Stuff you’d expect to see from the best players in your local Sunday league instead of a pro league.
Right now it’s a league for really young players, guys who couldn’t quite cut it in the MLS or others who are well-travelled journeymen in the various European leagues on the absolute tail-end of their careers… David Edgar is a classic example of someone like that. He played in the Prem for a bit, then ended up playing 2nd and 3rd division footy for clubs like Burnley Huddersfield, Sheffield United, Birmingham, Vancouver Whitecaps, Nashville, Hartlepool, etc,. before he came back home to play for the Forge. He’s 33.
The idea however, is that Canada has been without a wholly domestic pro league from coast to coast for over twenty years and that’s shown in our results on the global stage. Teams who have a professional league tend to do better in terms of World Cup qualification. Canada haven’t qualified since 1986! Another aspect of it was in order to host the World Cup, it was my understanding that FIFA requires the host country to have a domestic pro league. So now that we’re co-hosting in 2026, hopefully by then we’ll have had some academies and such produce some decent domestic talent instead of relying upon what is essentially an American league (MLS) with three Canadian teams in it, as well as the talented kids taking off to Europe when they’re 14/15; only for them to decide to play for said nation once they get there.
The MLS was utter shite when it first started. The same can be said for the CPL. There’s nothing ‘premier’ about it, but it’s got good financial and corporate backing, so I hope it succeeds. Atletico Madrid have sunk a bunch of money into a sister team in Ottawa (much like Man City with NYC FC), so that suggests that people see the potential. They’ve even got a TV deal - which is what other leagues outside of MLS haven’t been able to accomplish. It’s an improvement to the semi-pro leagues scattered around the country and is hopefully the beginnings of a promotion and relegation system down the line. Officially it’s the second tier of Canadian footy, but the MLS doesn’t do relegation or promotion because they’re a franchise system so we’ll see if they ever change that model once they’re full up and stop continuing expansion.
I suspect my area will have a team in the CPL within the next five years and I will fully support them.
Ideally down the line I’d like to see it go something like MLS 1st Division, MLS 2nd Division, domestic pro league (USL for US, CPL for Canada), regional semi-pro leagues, etc. That’s a while out yet.