When football meets fashion
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- Created: Tuesday, 04 August 2009 19:50
- Written by Ian Shine
Football has produced numerous fashion disasters both on and off the pitch.
Djibril Cisse’s Klub 9 label is the epitome of this off the pitch, specialising in tight sleeveless tops and generic faded logos.
On the pitch it’s hard to find the biggest sinner, but with each new season everyone has a go at outdoing each other with arbitrary colour schemes, unnecessarily large club badges and sponsors, more stripes than you can find on a herd of zebras and crap collars.
If footballers weren’t the modern day deities that they are, you might even be persuaded to think that the people working for Nike or some other sportswear designer have a vendetta against footballers and are just trying to make them look like numpties for the next nine months.
So with no further ado, here’s a rundown of this season’s worst football kits.
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