Good, Bad and Ugly kits from the past – Chelsea
Good – Home shirt 2011/12
I’m not the biggest fan of Chelsea and they have had some real shockers when it’s come to shirts over the years. It took a long time to find a shirt that I liked.
This shirt was worn in the 2011/12 season when Chelsea won the Champions League for the first time and also the FA Cup. It was made of two shades of blue in vertical stripes and the sleeves had a thick white trim with the traditional Adidas three stripes in blue.
Bad – Away shirt 1996/97
Some bad shirts are lost in time and only remembered when brought up on blogs like this!
This particularly bad shirt is part of Chelsea’s modern history. It was in the FA Cup Semi Final in 1997 that Chelsea wore this awful yellow and sky blue shirt. They won the Semi Final and beat Middlesbrough 2-0 in the Final to win the FA Cup for the first time in 27 years.
Re-runs of the Semi Final would get shown over and over again, giving Chelsea fans a reminder of this shocker!
Ugly – away shirt 1994-96
Grey and orange really shouldn’t be a combination on a football shirt!
The body of the shirt was made up of two parts with the bottom half of the shirt a plain grey, the same as the sleeves.
On the chest section were two vertical orange panels on the side and some vertical stripes made of two different tones of grey.
As if the shirt itself wasn’t bad enough, the shorts and socks were also orange with a grey and black panel on the shorts. Truly awful!
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