France's away shirt from March 2011 to February 2012 was the striking La Marinière (traditional French sailor shirt). Only worn once...



www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkyWqEaHCpY

Benzema doing his best Marcel Marceau impression there.

Though the clown shoes would look better in navy and white.

Jean Paul Gaultier doing his best Benzema impression

I'm pretty sure that French away shirt was worn more than once because I saw it in a match (a home friendly perhaps) with white shorts.

I was very annoyed when I got to do a bit of a blag in the Stade de France shop last summer that they had none in child sizes for my boy.

At the Stade de France against Croatia in March 2011.

Both kits a thousand percent better than those worn this month.

ursus arctos wrote:


Very nice. Mine's got Bobby's number on the back as well (it wasn't optional).

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Sam Kelly-
England did indeed wear three kits at Mexico 70. I've also seen photos of England players in a yellow shirt around that time though I have no recollection of seeing them play in yellow. Mind you, TV was all black and white in those days. Well it was in our house.
Incidentally, if you'd like to indulge your sense of the ridiculous check out Brighton's 'deckchair' kit (with striped shorts) on historicalfootballkits.co.uk.
On a similar note, Amor de C. should look at Birmingham's so-called 'German flag' away kit from the mid-70s ( though to my mind, as the stripes were vertical it's more like the Belgian flag).

England played in all yellow in Warsaw in 1973 when they lost 2-0 to Poland, I think.

They wore dark blue shorts or what looked like their usual shorts, along with yellow socks. It must have been a nightmare watching that match on a black-&-white TV because both sides were wearing light shirts, dark shorts & light socks.

It must have been pretty bad even watching the match ursus has put the photo of up there on a B&W set. It looks okay in that still, but I can imagine that with movement and transitions from shade to sunlight, it'd get very confusing.

I remember watching it on a B/W set , and the sun was very bright there - and it often seemed impossible to tell them apart.

I remember it being a very boring match too. - But the temperatures were silly, and I was 10 at the time, so any match that didn't have a goal every 10 mins was boring to me.
Not like now of course.......

Amor de Cosmos wrote:


Countries in Africa often whack the flag onto their kit. Good example from DR Congo:


Also, Gadaffi era Libya used to play in all green...