Strange not to have seen any rumours about next seasons kit yet. Gone are the days when they wore it for the last game or leaked a pic from the photoshoot.
I didn’t buy a programme but I saw one briefly and there was a teaser ad suggesting something with pale blue was coming out?
Might this...
These retro shirts are wrong anyway. Never had any fancy embroidery on in ‘66. Can’t vouch for the material as they didn’t really do replica merch back then. Didn’t change designs every season either...
They didn’t do replica kits when I was a kid. I was just getting into footie and was bought a generic blue football shirt. Someone told me it looked like Everton and they were a good team because they’d just won the league (69/70). Done.
Hummel. The makers of the famous Alan Ball White Boots. They were so poor he used to wear other manufacturers’ and paint ’em white. Maybe we could do the same; buy Nike and stick a Hummel badge on. Sorted.
Subbuteo. I was the era of stickers for shirt numbers. I customised my Everton figures by scraping the paint off and repainting certain features. So I repainted flesh coloured forearms on Joe Royle, ‘cos he always had his sleeves rolled up. Orange hair on Alan Ball and yellow hair on Alan...
Loved it. Doesn’t make us a plastic club, unless we start doing it every week. But for the start of the season, and other special occasions, European nights, etc it’s great.