http://www.truecoloursfootballkits.com Football kits from 1980 to the present day Sun, 11 May 2008 20:00:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is a great article courtesy of Gary Silke's Leicester City fanzine 'The Fox'. It brings back fond memories for me of being desperate to own a replica football shirt when I was a small boy...cheers Gary! Modern Life is Rubbish, this isn’t just rose-tinted nostalgia specs, it really is... Firstly we ... http://www.truecoloursfootballkits.com/articles/modern-life-is-rubbish As a football fan and a football kit, fan April kicks off a wonderful time of the year. Not only is the season drawing to a climax with hopefully, from a neutral's point of view, a few twists and turns in the battle for titles, cups, promotions and relegations but ... http://www.truecoloursfootballkits.com/truecolours/the-best-time-of-the-year Here is the second of four articles featuring the kits that are to be worn in Euro 2008. Group B mixes Nike, Puma and adidas together. Adidas have come up with some superb designs for the Germany team that really lift their outfits away from the slightly formularic approach of Nike ... http://www.truecoloursfootballkits.com/articles/euro-2008-kits-pt-2-group-b Here is the first of four articles featuring the kits that are to be worn in Euro 2008. Starting off with Group A where unbelievably every team has a red home kit and white away! Who says international kits are getting boring? There's really only a few templates on view at ... http://www.truecoloursfootballkits.com/articles/euro-2008-kits-pt-1-group-a On a recent visit to Sven's excellent www.footballshirtculture.com site I was very interested to see what appears to be the 08-10 Liverpool home shirt. Its certainly a good looking adidas design and in my opinion one of the best the club have worn for many years, but one aspect of ... http://www.truecoloursfootballkits.com/articles/liverpools-league-failures-%e2%80%93-all-down-to-the-badge I've just been looking through the kits for Euro 2008 and its amazing how the designs in international football are still completely dominated by the big three of adidas, Nike and Puma. Nike are supplying kits for: Croatia, Holland, Russia, Turkey and Portugal Puma are supplying kits for: Austria, Poland, Italy, ... http://www.truecoloursfootballkits.com/truecolours/euro-2008-kits The third largest sportswear company worldwide (after Nike and adidas) is Puma who were born in Germany to the other half of the Dassler family (Adi of course founding adidas) Rudolf. In fact using a similar trick to his brother, Rudolf originally named the company Ruda before changing it to ... http://www.truecoloursfootballkits.com/articles/sportswear-brand-histories-puma Formed in 1879 by Edward R Buck and Sons, Bukta are the longest established football kit apparel manufacturers in England, if not the world. Their first kits were produced way back in 1884 for Nottingham Forest – although of course it was to be nearly 100 years later until sportswear ... http://www.truecoloursfootballkits.com/articles/sportswear-brand-histories-bukta Any of you eagle eyed kit fans out there notice the creeping in of additional sportswear branding on shirts just recently? Umbro's 07–08 templates of course include an extra diamond sleeve logo and the latest example involves the, quite frankly, massive Canterbury logos on each shoulder of the current Portsmouth ... http://www.truecoloursfootballkits.com/truecolours/portsmouths-extra-canterbury-logos Its been announced this week that after 40 years together the French national football team are saying 'au revoir' to adidas and will switch to Nike in 2011 for their kit supply. I suppose for football fans of my age adidas and France go together like a baguette and brie ... http://www.truecoloursfootballkits.com/truecolours/france-sign-deal-with-nike