Sunday, 2 October 2011

Playing for the shirt

In my younger days I used to love buying a football shirt or two, in recent years things such as rent, bills, travel and food have put somewhat of a dent into my shirt fund to such an extent that I've been limited to a mere 3 shirts in the last 12 months...disgraceful behavior I'm sure you'll agree.  At last count I was sitting on around 46 wearable shirts along with a few from my youth which despite my "slight" frame I'd probably still struggle to squeeze into.  None of these shirts are particularly rare, and the majority have been bought when on sale.

It doesn't really matter if its a fake, as long as its a "genuine fake" (as I was once informed in a market in Florence by a large gentleman trying to sell me a number of watches, all of which were comically fastened up his arm), I used to own a lovely fake Lazio shirt with 'Mancini 10' on the back, from back when Roberto was a mercurial player.

Whilst on one of my regular trawls through my sites of choice for shirt purchasing I felt the need to do another list...I know its a little bit of a "lazy" blog, but I'm just trying to share some of my passion, and I like to write a list...it puts the world to rights!

So, in no particular order, here are 10 of my favourite pieces;

  1. Athletic Bilbao Away Shirt 07/08 - a lovely shirt which I searched for high and low and could not find anywhere...anyone with one who would like to donate to a good home...
  2. England Away Shirt 1996 - this shirt splits people down the middle, like marmite, a love or hate thing.  Personally I love it.
  3. Darth Vader Adidas Original - one of two Adidas Original shirts, the other was Luke Skywalker, but at the end of the day we'd all rather be Vader than Skywalker...Skywalker kissed his sister.
  4. Tibet 11/12 Home shirt - if its good enough for the Dalai Llamas men, its good enough for me.
  5. Palmeiras Third Kit 10/11 - ever since my youth team wore a lovely green and white number (if I had a picture it would be in the top 10) I've liked a green shirt, this is one of the best.
  6. Palermo Home kit - real men wear pink...next.
  7. Any Deportivo Wanka shirt - they say Wanka on them, thats enough for me.
  8. Argentina Home Shirt 11/12 - now excuse me while I go wash my mouth out
  9. St. Pauli Camouflage Shirt - I would put a picture up, but you wouldn't be able to see it...its camouflaged stupid.
  10. Carlisle United Third kit 95-97 - I may be bias, but literally the best shirt ever.

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