I get the sentiment but its deffo not the 3rd worst shirt of all time!
3. Coventry City home (2009)
Coventry 2009: Bland! Bland! Bland! Photograph: Public Domain
Coventry City have a terrible reputation for turning out in shocking clobber.
This shirt, for example, is often cited as the worst ever, an affront to cotton. But why? It's not too flash; modern marketing types would probably point out how it'd go well with jeans, and that the vertical flash is very flattering for the larger gentleman (unlike, for example, the conceptual jape
Kappa played on Robbie Keane a few years ago). It's because it's brown, isn't it? Well,
so what?
It's not the only City kit to have been buried under a hail of brickbats.
Their 1987-88 shirt was much derided at the time for unimaginatively aping the iconic Denmark strip of Mexico 86 a year after the event – Southampton and Aston Villa copped for this as well – but if you're going to plagiarise, you may as well rip off the best. The one before it –
the Granada Bingo cup final effort – was pilloried for its badges-hastily-sewn-onto-cheap-tops-by-tea-lady-in-back-room scruffiness. As though that was a bad thing; the cheap park-football look is exactly the reason it looked money.
And even
the T for Talbot one, while not exactly an aesthetic triumph, gets the thumbs up for working-class hero Jimmy Hill's sheer obstinacy. Hill boldly circumvented league advertising rules by working a huge sponsor's logo into the design of the kit, effectively dancing around in front of the Football League board, flicking the Vs. Right in the big fat confused face of The Man.
And now? Now the Coventry kit is very tasteful, very understated – and very
boring. Which is a far bigger crime than anything that went before. And that even includes
this.
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