- Jun 27, 2012
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Sorry mate, but Barca and Bayern have absolutely "tried things" over the last few years, did you see Bayern's home kit this season? A lot of their fans absolutely hate it. Barcelona's fades and stripes have been very odd as well. And those are their traditional home kits. The away kits for all the clubs you named have been extremely experimental, especially compared to us.The away kit would be beautiful if not for the stripes- take those off and you have a great shirt.
But they are there, and they are awful.
You notice how the top kits- Chelsea, Man City, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern Munich come to mind- don't seem to "try" anything- and as a result they don't end up with this kind of naff shit? Those clubs don't say "yeah, nice kit and all- but how but some tire-track, skid-mark, racing-stripe thingies coming up from the bottom and down from the top? I mean how cool would that be?" Instead, they just leave their kits alone: club crest, sponsor's logo, shirtmaker's badge, that's that.
We, on the other hand, try to make it "stylish." And this is the result.
The best kits we've had- e.g., some of the Holsten ones and the first Investec Cup shirt from two years ago- had in common that they were simple, honest, direct, and beautiful. No crazy patterns, no wild designs-- just club crest/sponsor's logo/shirtmaker's badge- job done.
These latest offerings demonstrate a fatal flaw with Spurs: much of the time, we can't seem to get out of our own way.