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In no particular order but numbered to make viewing easier. Enjoy! 20. Manchester United The infamous Manchester United grey kit...

Twenty of the World's Worst Football Jerseys

by Maire Ofeire [HUMOR]

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September 17, 2008


In no particular order but numbered to make viewing easier. Enjoy!

 

20. Manchester United

    

The infamous Manchester United grey kit. Apparently the players were unable to "see" each other and the shirt was blamed for United's defeat to Southampton. A dull, dull shirt.

 

19. Athletic Bilbao

Tomato ketchup or artistic? You decide!!

 

18. Oldham Athletic

Be honest, it makes you want to vomit.

 

17. Hull

Lucky for the Premiership new boys they no longer sport these tiger numbers.

 

16. Anything worn by Jorge Campos

Well known for his flamboyant outfits, Campos designed his own kits. It shows!!

 

15. Huddersfield Town

One can only imagine how hard it was for the players to be taken seriously in this.

 

14. Mexico

If you can't beat them, scare the living daylights out of 'em!

 

13. Birmingham City

Someone just let a child loose with some paint.

 

12. Coventry City

The Sky Blues when they were a little off colour.

 

11. Juventus

Pink just doesn't work in football.

 

10. Kilmarnock

No not your grandfather's shirt, but one of Kilmarnock's past kits.

 

9. Notts County

Another shirt designed by kids with paint.

 

8. Chelsea

Just no excuse for putting grey and orange together!

 

7. Milwall

So bad it's hard to find the words.

 

6. Arsenal

Thankfully more recent yellow efforts allow Gunners to be seen in public.

 

5. Stoke

Yes, ok, we know who you are.

 

4. Hartlepool United

It's not quite sure what its meant to be AND its got a butterfly on it.

 

3. Dundee United

Just ink-blotty!

 

2. Fiorentina

So bad it was banned! Well actually it was banned because it had swastikas embedded in their shirts (intentional or not). Not at all clever!

 

1. Caribous of Colorado

the caribous of colorado by Mr. Hernonymous.

I'd never heard of them either, but do I really need to explain this! Is it a football jersey, or a cowboy shirt?!

 

So there you go some of the world's ugliest shirts. The order you may not agree with, but surely on the contents you do.

Anymore?

 

P.S.: Check out Pt. 2 and proof that the "cowboy" shirt is real here. Thanks.

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    Haha Brilliant, I have the man utd one!

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    A good, hearty laugh!

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    LMAO! Brilliant article. Man, how long did it take you to research all of those shirts?!

    Anyway, these kind of articles are what make B/R unique and great to read. 5 stars and POTD.

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      Hey Steven glad you enjoyed it. It's an article I've been thinking of doing for a while, believe me there could be a 100 up there.

      Cheers for the 5* and pick :-)

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    This is some funny shit. Good stuff.

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    Lol Brill article, do you own any of those shirts by any chance? A few of the pictures seem to have been taken on someones bed lol.

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      Ha ha no don't own any although I very nearly did own the Arsenal one but instead of getting the away kit that year I got the home one :-) phew I know people that do own one or two of them shirts though, that United one proved popular, couldn't see half my friends when they wore it :-)

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      I have that Arsenal kit!!! lol I wear it occasionally in public, its a classic!!

      And am I the only one that thinks the No.1 looks kinda coool!? ;)

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    I'd feel sorry if I was Palermo then whose normal jersey is pink....great read though!

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    I would bet the majority of those were worn in the 90's!! Sad, sad times!!

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    I almost find it hard to believe those were actually worn in a serious manner. It's unconceivable.

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    I can't decide which is more offensive, Athletic Bilbao's offering or those of Jorge Campos.

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      I'd go with Bilbao, after all Campos was just one crazy guy whilst there was obviously a design team behind Bilbao's effort :-)

      Apparently Campos would put sparkles in his kit so the light would reflect off them and blind forwards, you'd think it would effect the forwards too though!

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      Defenders not forwards i.e he'd blind all players around him :-)

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    Lool That Kilmarnock jersey had me falling off the chair....

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    Wow some of those jerseys are just shocking. Actually all of them. The United kit pictured above would be the one time I wouldn't buy that year's jersey!

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      Correct me if I'm wrong Jeff but aren't United using grey as their 3rd kit this year. I think I saw a promo of Ji Sung Park in a grey kit. Do ye ever learn :-)

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    Man, Jorge Campos. He would get strikers into making horrible shots by blinding them. A true legend — on the pitch, not on the runway.

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      exactly maybe he was before his time in that sense, keepers are wearing more fluoro now and some have hinted it is so they can distract the strikers.

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      Didn't Campos also have a shirt with a target on it to entice strikers into shooting right at him?

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      Think you could be right Joe. He also had a polka dot number and would but sparkles in his shirt till Fifa stopped him.

      Agh I miss mad old Jorge! I remember Ireland played Mexico in the 1994 WC in mad, mad heat. The Irish were not accustomed to that weather and were suffering badly and then on top of that they had to suffer a multi coloured keeper. No wonder we lost!

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    hahah. Nice article.

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    I think the Juventus one is okay..but other than that..they all look they've been stolen out of a thrift store.

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    Campos looks to have been ahead of the game in trying to distract the opposition, looks as if he was trying to do that, keepers now have been doing the same with their shirts.
    i think the Arsenal and Juve shirts could have been replaced by any number of other horrible examples of footballing 'fashion'.

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    Wow! An amazing collection, and an enjoyable read.

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    I want the Manchester United one, haha.

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    lmao nice, especially the comments about kids with paint.

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    Haha, that's terrible!

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    So I noticed that a lot of the kits have the same quilt in the background...do you own some of these? If so, good god why? lol

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      haha Ben just noticed that too...My God!! Maire has some explaining to do lol....

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      Who wouldn't want to own these jerseys. U'll be a straight G man. lol

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      Don't own ANY ha ha jeez I could never explain away fashion disasters like that :-)

      On the subject the Fiorentina jersey is a collectable beacuse of the design it was banned almost instantly so nowadays it exchanges hands for quite a pretty penny. I would like to have a Jorge Campos collection though, I'd bring light to the world :-)

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    That last one looks like it should be worn by Saints cheerleaders. HAHAHA... thoroughly enjoyable.

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    Luton away, the technicolour one from the early-90s. Easily the worst I've seen (at least until that cowboy one with the tassels!)

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    Lol, the stoke city one fantastic, "Hmmmm, how do we design our kit? Lets just put STOKE".

    And the last one, the cowboyish one. The funniest part is just imagine a bunch of dudes running around in that kit and taking the game so seriously.

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    Depending on your skin colour, the cowboy one looks like a half top, LOL. Oh my goodness, I have to leave this page.

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    The Juve one isn't actually that terrible. They used to wear pink regularly, back in the early 1900s. Check this out for more: http://www.toffs.com/icat/juventus

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    Nice article.. some really terrible jerseys there!

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    How do you get images into your article?

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    see, THESE are the things that can put people off the game!

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    that number one cant possibly be real?!?!

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      I thought that too Matt, it's now my mission to find a picture of the team wearing the kit I'll post it if I find it.

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    Nice one there Maire; made my day. I think you left out the Socceroos outfits of the 80s and 90s so try to get those as well.

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    LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL

    and I'm gonna keep doing that.

    LOL LOL LOL

    5 starz & definately a pick!

    ps. Aston Villa, 1993. Aweful

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      Glad you liked it Thomas :-), there has been many more suggestions so I think there will have to be a part 2.

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      I cant wait for it.

      And I still don't believe Colorado had something as ridiculous as that.

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      Its my new mission to find the Colorado team WEARING the kit :-)

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      haha, i'm looking too. I am in shock!

      for the next part, put in Liverpool's new away kit, ;)

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      AGH I FOUND IT colorado wearing the kit it's from the 1970s :-) ha ha oh its funny

      I have so much jerseys left over that I didn't put in I'll have part 2 up in a short while :-) have you any more suggestions??

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      lemme see.

      Well, according to last October's Champions League magazine (I sound like such a nerd, haha) Bolton had a kit that was polka dotted. yes polka dotted, it's from 1884, too bad there are no pics of it.

      And Watford had an UGLY ABSOLUTELY AWEFUL rainbow kit from 1904.

      and then Chesterfield managed to get the UK flag into a kit back in 1889.

      I just found this site where you can look at a bunch of old kits in history. go there and u'll find what i'm talking about and more.

      ur welcome!

      http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/

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    I am from the United States, and that Colorado kit right there shows just how football is appreciated here... it's damn shame.. though i will say that kit has to be from the 70's.. i hope. Because that is the only way that i will allow that thing to have been made...

    I wonder do most of the others come from the 80's, well except Coventry City that has a decidedly 70's feel to it. Disco baby.

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      Hey Kenneth,

      Yes quite a few were from the 80s but most are from the early 90s. I am trying to source a team picture of the Colorado team and I have a really terrible it is a very recent kit here 's hoping its a kids team :-)

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      Oh dear your right Kenneth, the Colorado kit is from the 1970s I shall put it in part 2 of my worst jersey collection

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      Oh the 70's such an interesting fashion decade... lol

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    Fun stuff Maire. That cowboy top is a complete shocker. I'd refuse to play lol

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      Ha ha I'm a woman and even I wouldn't wear it Andrew. It seems to be a very popular number one so I'll try and find a picture of the team actually wearing the kit.

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    Petr Cech's fluorescent orange kit probably just missed this list by a whisker.
    Brilliant article! cheers!

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      Glad you liked it Rahul, It appears I'm going to have to do a part 2 luckily there's plenty of more horrible horrible jerseys to do so :-)

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    I would have to agree with Andrew that is just a terrible kit. Whoever thought that would fly needs to have been fired. Well I say that and maybe it was a kid who designed it... but man they really need to make sure that kid does not design anything else...lol

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    LOL LOL LOL !!
    nice article and seriously its kits like these that inspire me to become a fashion designer ... evn i can design better/worse than these ones ... on 2nd thgts, naah i wud stick to writing :P

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    That was a fun article!

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    My God! You were NOT kidding ! Those jerseys are truly are hideous. My eyes are bleeding.

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    Dundee United OMG! Somebody actually took a step back and said, Yeah its alright! and put that hideopus top into mass production.

    The cowboy top just left me speechless!

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      I actually had to find a picture of the team wearing the cowboy shirt, its probably the singlest strangest thing I've ever come across in soccer

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    OMgoodness! The Colorado Caribous's shirt is so great!!!! The leather tassel is so ugly it's funny! The rest just made my eye balls ache! Your number 19 - Athletic Bilbao is not that bad looking, I kinda like it...All in all, it's Really funny! Thank you for posting!

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    Not as ugly as the Vancouver Canucks Flying V, but that's another sport and another column I'm sure. Good one

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    Awwwwwwwww Lordie! Save me from seeing these eye-sore of jerseys, and Maire, rocking article!

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    I once had a girlfriend who sported underwear like #17.

    #3 looks like a drop cloth for a house painter with the shakes.

    But that #1 is so wrong on so many levels...

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    LOL! Horrible just Horrible! Huddersfield Town was the funniest imo, is that peppers on the right?

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    Hey little bastard, you have to know a culture to talk about it. Mexico's jersey is one of the most beautiful uniforms in our history. that red thing you see in the jersey is the aztec calendar and you should respect that. it's culture and please read more about something before you write about it

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      I know what it is, doesn't mean I have to like it. If someone put a lepruchan on an Irish shirt does me being Irish give me the right to say its beautiful just cos of our culture?? You have your opinion and I have mine, its more fashion than culture Eduardo

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    Maire, the Kilmarnock top you've posted at no. 10 is NOT one of their past kits - Killie never played football in it! It is a polo-type leisure top for fans to wear.

    Still wouldn't be seen dead in it though. {'_'}

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      Thanks for the info Ayrshire, that happened with the crystal palace shirt too but once again I'll leave it cos it is bad :-)

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    La maglia della Fiorentina: non sono svastiche, sono freccie incastonate. Firenze non è mai stata fascista.

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    Quella maglia della Fiorentina del 1992 era veramente brutta, ma le "svastiche" erano casuali, non volute. Dire che la Fiorentina "a team with a fascist past" è un'offesa per tutta Firenze, città medaglia doro della Resistenza, la quale, fra l'altro, ha cacciato i nazisti e i fascisti da sola, mentre gli americani stavano a guardare dall' altra parte del fiume Arno

    That mesh of the Fiorentina of 1992 was truly ugly, but the " swastikas" they were accidental, not intentional. To say that the Fiorentina " to team with to fascist past" it is offensive for all Florence, city gold medal of the Resistance, which, between l' other, has hunted the nazis and the fascists alone, while the Americans were to watch in other part of the Arno river.

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    Fiorentina's t-shirt: there aren't swastikas,but only crossing arrows. Florence was never fascist

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    I'm sorry but, actually, fiorentina has NO fascist past.
    Try to control what you say.
    Thanks

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    as a fellow irishman Maire,i find your ignorance about Fiorentina disgraceful!before making such remarks do some research first..what fascist past are we talking about here exactly?I forgot,,they're not in the premiership so who cares in this part of the world,right?

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      Calm, it was a source of misinformation it has been changed, obviously my information was incorrect no need for the personal attack

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    as a fellow Irishman,I find your ignorance about Fiorentina disgraceful!before making such serious accusations please do some research in future..what exactly do you mean by itss fascist past?well i suppose it doesnt really matter,seeing as all people care about here is the premiership,right?complimenti

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    I'm from Florence, and i can say that Fiorentina never had a fascist past...you can just say that the Stadium where Fiorentina plays was projected by a fascist designer. Nothing more.

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    Thank you for the apologies. :-)

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    THE MEXICO JERSEY WITH THE AZTEC DESIGN IS NOT UGLY!
    That is a COOL looking jersey! And the Campos jersey also is cool! The guy who put those on
    this list is an idiot!

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    Although it's not "football" (soccer) I would like to nominate the University of Oregon [college] football (American Rules, if you will!) uniform jerseys. They have a number of different ones and I have yet to see one that was NOT bad looking!
    In fact some of the jerseys (kits[?]) are so ugly they should be illegal!

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    Oooop, who designed those fooball jerseys? Really shocking: )))

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