Marking a baseball anniversary Today, April 16, marks the 97th anniversary of a big development in baseball uniform history – the wearing of numbers on the back of a team’s jerseys for the first time. While much of t…

Ninety-seven years ago today, a Major League Baseball team wore numbers on the backs of their jerseys for the first time

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#RIP #YNWA #JFT97

Fantasy Kit Friday – Millwall Umbro 2008-09 Having done a Hull City FKF last time out for our friend Les Motherby, today it’s the turn of our other Football Kit Podcast colleague, Gavin Hope. Gav is a Millwall fan and the era we landed…

New #fantasykitfriday post - Millwall in 2008-09 Umbro styles

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Lorenzo Amoruso Day – Moore upheaval It’s Lorenzo Amoruso Day – well, one of them anyway, with Blackburn Rovers fans celebrating the feast on April 5. When the Italian centre-back joined Rangers in the summer of 1997, the …

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Today's date marks the squad-number switch made by Rangers captain Lorenzo Amoruso in 1999

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One-offs – Denmark, 1998 The 1990 World Cup was my first proper exposure to football, igniting an interest that only grew from there. Last Thursday, excitement in Ireland was at levels not seen in quite a while as World Cu…

As Denmark face Czechia tonight for a place at the World Cup, a look at an oddity from their kit canon

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Clockwork Oranje Fixed numbering was first introduced for the World Cup in 1954. The edition previous to that, in Brazil in 1950, was the first to have any kind of shirt numbers – while most countries lined o…

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In celebration of the only instance of a team lining out 1-11 in a World Cup final

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The Kitbliss 100 Greatest Football Shirt Templates No. 25: Nike TOTAL 90 (2004-06).

Two versions, one very familiar shirt design. Read all about it and check out over 50 different kit designs here:

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A rarity becomes more common for England England will debut their new change strip in Friday night’s friendly against Uruguay. A red shirt with navy and white facings is likely to please those who prefer traditional colours to be em…

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A brief history of England in a red-navy-red kit configuration

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Luke Shaw Day You know the way that the anniversaries of tragic events are commemorated rather than celebrated? Well, we commemorate Luke Shaw Day (deftly switching to the American notation so that it’s 3-…

Numbers-nerds don’t say ‘Happy Luke Shaw Day’, but it’s only through acknowledging it that the healing process can occur 🙏

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Weekend Mashup – Nottingham Forest, 1992 Nottingham Forest travel to face Tottenham Hotspur today in what is the proverbial relegation six-pointer. Perhaps Forest should engage in some heritage superstition… I can clearly recall sit…

Perhaps Nottingham Forest should seek to harness the spirit of Brian Clough today and wear red shorts at Tottenham....

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A welcome exception The other day, I saw a tweet which sought to call out adidas’s lack of imagination on the goalkeeping front, illustrated with multiple examples of custodians wearing the same design and colou…

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In praise of Sunderland's goalkeeper kits this season

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Great one-offs – Monaco, 1998 While there was much to admire about AS Monaco’s change kit approach during their time with adidas, there were times when they were forced to come up with emergency kits. Most seasons, all-wh…

This day 28 years ago, a one-off kit served Monaco well as their 1-1 draw at Old Trafford secured an away-goals Champions League quarter-final win over Manchester United

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Season in Kits – Aston Villa, 1997-98 From 1974-93, the two years from 1986-88 was the only period where Aston Villa did not wear light-blue socks with their first strip. Asics’ two-year stint saw the club in white socks and then…

OTD in 1998, Aston Villa beat Atlético Madrid in the Uefa Cup but it wasn't enough to avoid losing out on away goals

Villa were in their white third shirts - the 1996-97 away - one of eight kit combinations that season, all featuring the club colours

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Players switching from number 17 to 3 are thin on the ground, so unfortunately no Irishmen or even a Patrick

Liverpool's Mamadou Sakho did make such a move in 2016 - but bad time-keeping saw him get on the wrong side of Jürgen Klopp and he never played a competitive game in 3

Wright decisions We accept that it’s probably not the main topic of discussion in the wake of Arsenal’s win over Everton on Saturday evening, but the Gunners finished with the same 3-2-6-5 defence as in…

Today's date represents the squad-number move made by Alan Wright of Aston Villa in 1998 - notable as it was back into the 1-11, having previously moved out of it

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Fine levels of prescience from @tim-stillman.bsky.social

Fantasy Kit Friday – Hull City in Bukta, 1991 While Hull City’s colour-scheme is not absolutely unique, it is quite distinctive in English football. Accepting that old gold and amber are different colours – even if both have varied…

New #fantasykitfriday post - @hullcitykits.bsky.social in West Ham United's 1991 Bukta designs

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Midweek Mashup – Celtic, 2001 Celtic’s primary and secondary kits for the 2001-02 season made a good cohesive set when placed alongside each other. As covered previously, the home strip had, unusually, been launched midway thro…

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A blink-and-you'll-miss-it swapping of Celtic's goalkeeper shorts and socks for the outfield away sets in 2001-02

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The last two-star Admirals While Umbro made kit for exactly half of the founder members of the Premier League, you might not have readily guessed which company was next in terms of representation. The fact that Admiral had f…

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Today marks the anniversary of the last all-Admiral top-flight clash in England

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Care and attention We do tend to enjoy squad-number changes that involve a player moving from one 1-11 number to another. The main reason for this is that, generally, it will involve taking on a new number that bette…

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On the rare but pleasing instances of players moving from number 6 to 3

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"HERE WE GO!": the lowdown on "football journalist" Fabrizio Romano The Italian "influencer" who has never worked as a real journalist, has 100m+ followers on social media and leverages them for cash. This is a tale about modern sports media

"HERE WE GO!": the lowdown on "football journalist" Fabrizio Romano

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One of the squad-number changes that lines up with today's date, Filipe Luis at Chelsea in 2014-15, is unusual in that it happened before he had played a competitive game for the club

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Wednesday 11s – squad-number journeys quiz Welcome to another of our free monthly numbers quizzes – should you require a more regular fix, please see our Patreon page. Today’s quiz is the popular ‘journeys’ theme &#8…

New squad numbers quiz:

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Barç-ing ourselves Tonight could be the final outing for Barcelona’s cup kit. We appreciate that it’s quite an uncertain sentence – and the lack of clarity is not due to us being sagacious about a f…

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Trying to divine the kit match-up for tonight's Barcelona-Atlético Madrid clash in the Copa del Rey

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May the fourths be with you Having revisited the Admiral ‘tramlines’ design with their home shirt in 2022-23, it was always a strong bet that Coventry City would produce a modern take on the brown change kit. The …

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A philosophical question Today’s date has some resonance around Arsenal squad-number changes. In 2013, after seven years wearing number 2 for Arsenal, French midfielder Abou Diaby switched to 24 in the wake of goalke…

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Is a 'wrong' low number better than a higher one?

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@arseblog.com @tim-stillman.bsky.social Carthorse Viktor Gyökeres now has 15 goals this season, the same as Hugo Ekitiké, by far the best centre-forward signed last summer 👀

Euro kit review, week ending February 20 A kit match-up we liked Metz v Auxerre, Ligue 1 The French league is very good for mashups where kits are mixed rather than just having alternative shorts or socks – we must do a bigger featu…

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A look at back at some kit match-ups over the past week

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The Woan Identity – This article has been ready to go with a few weeks, intended to coincide with Nottingham Forest playing a first knockout European game in 30 years, with two legends from that run in the dug…

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Tonight sees Nottingham Forest play their first game in a European knockout round in nearly 30 years

That 1995-96 campaign threw up some numbering oddities

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Bright idea from Real Madrid First off – yes, we know it’s probably not what most people are talking about in the wake of Real Madrid’s victory over Benfica in the Champions League on Tuesday night, but the k…

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Last night's Benfica-Real Madrid game had a noticeably different visual to their clash last month

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