See, I thought it might grow on me, but I actually hate it more now than when the 'roadkill look' first went public.
The purple kit is perfect, and the other one with the horizontal stripes - despite really disliking it at first - actually looks pretty good.
I started at different positions, but for me it's also gone the same way. I liked the home initially, but my fondness of it has decreased rather substantially.
The away has grown on me, but I still don't really like it. I just cannot get over the black bellend at the top. Terrible.
The purple really is nice. I'd have preferred white trim and don't really like the trim on the sleeves, but the silver doesn't break it for me.
Not a fan of the baby blue but ye...
Yeah the black bellend on the away top is a pretty lousy bit of design. I just don't hate it as much when watching us wearing it. Certainly wouldn't buy it!
I think the home kit is one of the worst we've ever had. It's not a Spurs kit. I guess they couldn't quite get their head around the idea of a plain white top so just decided to stick an ugly tyre mark across it for kicks.
The baby blue was pure sex. The navy blue was better than sex. Honestly, that season might be the best season of kits we've had in a long while. Absolutely flawless.Not a fan of the baby blue but ye...
I don't think it's one of the worst ever (doesn't come even remotely close to last year's IMO), but yeah it's pretty clear that UA are adamantly trying to stay away from a classic look for the home in attempt to keep people buying each year's. I still think the best home they've made yet was the first one they made for Spurs. They made it original while still keeping a very sleek and classic Spurs look, and to me that's a good kit in the modern age: original while still paying respect to the classic.
I have to say though, I'm still so relieved I don't have to look at last year's home anymore that I remain somewhat appreciative of the current home. I mean sweet holy Christ was that an awful shirt.
How is it that so many clubs don't do this? I mean, take Everton (or City, or Chelsea, or Liverpool- etc.): they don't do a radical fucking kit redesign every Goddamn year; in fact, largely the opposite. They have a fairly standard template, and they stick to it (blue shirt with a "Chang" logo on it, similar to Chelsea in the "Samsung" years, current City "Etihad" kits, etc.). Maybe they add a few minor tweaks along the way (different collar, changed trim, whathaveyou), but their kit is fairly consistent- and almost always nice looking. Those clubs don't feel the need to trot out some naff, "let's get CRAZEEEE!!!!"-style, bold, "new" template year in and year out. They don't make wholesale changes just for the purpose of "change," don't feel the need to "get fans excited about our radical new look!"
As a result, each year their respective kit(s) looks slightly different, as opposed to a whole new look. Those clubs protect their brand, stick to tradition and produce mostly solid, excellent-looking kits. How many times in year's past I would see Chelsea's "Samsung" home kit and think "fuck- why can't we do something like that?" I mean I don't get it; don't they- too- want to sell shirts?
They do- right?
And yet somehow they manage to do just that without having to reinvent the wheel each and every kit launch. So why do we? Why are we always the ones having to be "out there" and "different?"
When it comes to kit design, Spurs remind me of my hippy father, a guy who- much to my ten-year-old boy horror- would never just do the normal, regular things all my other kid-friend's parents were doing. If, say, I wanted a hamburger, rather than just taking me to McDonald's and getting me a Big Mac he'd make me one, with wheat bread instead of a bun and celery sticks in place of french fries.
And now look at me.
The baby blue was pure sex. The navy blue was better than sex. Honestly, that season might be the best season of kits we've had in a long while. Absolutely flawless.
Premier League title and CL nights.Must be doing a few special things as it should be our last season at the Lane.
We have a golden cockerel on the roof so why not have it on the shirt front as well.
IMO it wouldn't look so good on the white shirt though.