Good, Bad and Ugly kits from the past – Birmingham City
Good – Third shirt 1972-74
This shirt was especially brought out in 1972 when third shirts were a real rarity. It was worn in games at Tottenham Hotspur and Queens Park Rangers.
The home shirt in the same period was predominantly blue with a white stripeand the away shirt was predominantly red. They had the same design as this third shirt with either the home or away colour covering the two side stripes with a white middle stripe.
City brought out a modern version of the shirt as their away shirt for their 2015/16 season so it must have been popular!
Bad – Home shirt 1999/00
This shirt features in the Bad section today because it has too many patterns on and looks a bit too hotch-potch.
In my opinion, for a kit to look nice, the design needs to be simple and City’s 99/00 home shirt has a mixture of different patterns.
It has plain sleeves and panels down the side and then narrow blue and white stripes in the middle. A shirt should really only be made up of one pattern.
Awful – Home shirt 92/93
This kit was only around for one season and it’s easy to see why! It looks like the pattern you’d see on a seat on a train, not a football shirt!
The plain blue shirt had coloured dashes all over it and looking back, the designers must wonder what they were thinking. It takes its rightful place in the Ugly category.
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