Sunday, 23 February 2014

Olympique Marseille 2012-13

My most recent Marseille shirt, purchased from classic football shirts. This is the standard version of the away shirt, which has the embroidered badges, the TechFit and Formotion versions have screen printed badges and also come in a tighter fit.
The shiny striped pattern on the front reminds me of a classic Adidas shirt from the 80's, like the Liverpool "Candy" kits.




Friday, 21 February 2014

Lyon Away Shirt 2011-12

Continuing my tradition of collecting Lyon shirts here is last seasons away effort. I've been after this shirt for a while, nearly brought it from the official Lyon site in the clearance section, but postage to the UK was something extortionate like £15. I ended up getting this from eBay for the bargain price of £12, it is used but hardly a mark on it.
As Lyon shirts go this is quite a tame effort, bordering on the boring, but cross hatch pattern woven into the front gives it something extra. I noticed this is the same template as the Chicago Fire shirt I have (which I will upload later on), although the collar is slightly different.






FC Luzern Home 2012-13

FC Luzern of Switzerland. This was a very random purchase from TK Maxx, better still it was only £16.99. I've since found out this was last seasons shirt, which I suspected anyway given it was in TK Maxx.  I believe this is the Estro template although it has been modified to include the pin stripes. I shall be looking out for the current Luzern shirt as it uses the Campeon template like Fulham and Southampton away.




Wednesday, 8 January 2014

Rosenborg Away 2012

Another purchase from Classic Football Shirts is the Rosenborg away shirt from 2012. I took a gamble on buying this shirt in a Kids XL size, luckily it fitted perfectly...after Christmas and all! This is probably my best recent bargain at £9.99.  I confess to knowing very little about Rosenborg other than they are in Norway....I think??
I was attracted to the shirt mainly 'cos its Adidas and black, but I liked the flashes of gold, ads a little something extra to a usually plain template. There are some nice details to the shirt with the lettering on the neckline.  Interestingly this is the current shirt despite CFS stating its from 2012, I assume they carried the design over to the current season as well, take note English teams!





Tuesday, 31 December 2013

Napoli Europa League Authentic Away 2012-13

This is the Napoli away shirt which was used in the 2013-14 Europa league campaign. I don't have many Macron shirts, think its only this and my Lorient away but I'm a big fan of their designs, very underrated kit supplier in my opinion.
This particular shirt is an "authentic" version which basically means its issued to the kit room for the players. The only difference that I'm aware of from the replica version is the tighter fit, the badges are still sewn on rather than heat pressed like the Adidas and Nike player version shirts. Another difference from this to the replica versions is the smaller sized "Lete" sponsor on the front, which is just as well as I think this detracts from the quality of the shirt, would look much better in monochrome. 
The shirt was purchased from the Classic Football Shirts web site, please check out their great site here.



Thursday, 4 July 2013

Bronby Home 2010-12

This is the Bronby home shirt from the 2010-12 seasons, the shirt was so nice they wore it for two seasons ;) This is the same template as the AIK shirt although the fabric feels slightly different, it's a very nice smooth feel, and also features the adidas hologram logo bottom right which the AIK one doesn't.  Just like the AIK shirt this also has the embossed logo on the back which you can see in the bottom of the collage photo.
I brought this shirt from classicfootballshirts.co.uk using their 20% discount code, which brought the price down to a very reasonable £12.








Wednesday, 3 July 2013

AIK Solna Home 2011

Here is the 2011 (I think??) home shirt from AIK Solna. This team often gets confused with AEK Athens from Greece, they have very similar shirts and of course the name. I won't pretend to know much about this team, other than they are from Sweden and have played in the champions league.
I'd seen this shirt knocking about on eBay for ages for a tenner so seemed like a good bargain, plus I've always been a fan of this Adidas template. The back of the shirt features the club crest embossed into the fabric which adds a nice touch away from the generic template.