Arsenal 2012/13 Home Shirt Leaked? Has Gruesome Navy Collar & Cuffs (Photo)
By Chris Wright
Right. Straight off the bat, Pies would like to clarify that we’re not saying this is 100% definitely the design for Arsenal’s new home kit for 2012/13.
What we are saying is that this mock-up has been drafted by Arsenalinsider, who have a decent hit-rate on these sorts of things and who are also claiming to have been privy to a photo of the actual design courtesy of a deepthroat informant in the Nike camp and that they are willing to stand by their reproduction ‘such is the strength of belief in their source’.
Make of that what you will.
Here’s AI’s preliminary mock-up, which is just an altered version of an existing Arsenal strip, which shows that – along with the classic ‘red with white sleeves’ formation – Nike are hell-bent on tagging on a set of gruesome navy blue (they look black/dark grey on the image, but AI claim they’re navy) collars and cuffs…
Pies verdict? We’re remaining suitably dubious, but that’s nasty. Looks like an knock-off Egypt strip from the early 1990s. For Arsenal’s sake, here’s hoping it’s a wind-up.
Believe/cast aspersions as you see fit, but one thing’s certain; if this design actually comes to fruition, there’s going to be a lot of jilted Gooners out there. How can you get such an elegant strip so wrong?
Anyone out there a fan? Anyone?
[Image: Arsenalinsider]
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Black/navy blue on a Arsenal kit? So wrong on so many levels!
I wouldn’t be surprised if this was actually the kit. Nike can’t make anything nice
it’s a photoshop of last seasons kit if you look closely. the white and black bits added to the sleeves are clearly nothing like the rest of the sleeves.
@muppets: It’s only a mock-up, i.e, an impression of the actual design that Arsenalinsider have seen.
By jove i think he’s right
muppets has the eyes of an eagle
fake
@snowmanvilla: thanks for clearing that up. i wouldn’t have been able to sleep otherwise.
It will let all of our French players feel great, what with two French flags on the shirt!
If the name on the back of that jersey reads “Hazard”, then I could give two S**TS if they take the pitch in that eyesore!!
@Grant Those would be dutch flags
@ JP: AMEN to that brother!
A few years ago Man Utd had something similar as their second kit now, don’t ye think?
This is clearly a fake. Those sleeves are photoshopped in the ugliest way.
thats clearly photoshopped… they colored in the collar and added the black and white stripes
@muppets, agreed. The same goes for the collar. Out of place, and blurry on some edges and sharp on others.
Also, the navy collar color and navy sleeve color are two distinctly different shades of grey. And yes, they are grey. Not navy.
lol u mad? Arsene would rather buy a player than deck out his team in that! XD
looks to me like one arsenal shirt on top of another
Clearly the work of a spurs fan
@chris french flag on the sleeves?
Come on, this is a picture of 2009-2010 season kit with quickly photoshopped “cuffs”
@ Chris. When you say, “What we are saying is that this mock-up”…”Here’s AI’s preliminary mock-up, which is just an altered version of an existing Arsenal strip” & “It’s only a mock-up, i.e, an impression of the actual design that Arsenalinsider have seen”…can you be a bit clearer. As clearly there are some contributors to this forum who are suggesting that this kit is not real, that it is (god forbid)…a mock-up.
It’s a mockup, its drawn up. So stop acting smart and saying ‘Its fake!’ when no one has claimed it wasn’t. But for those who want a photo, here you go.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=299886740066467&set=a.144211442300665.31794.138589062862903&type=1&permPage=1
Looks like a fake to me.
Can’t wait to see what Woolwich will be`wearing for those exciting Europa League away trips.
I think navy suits Arsenal, being that this color is featured in the club’s crest (has also had varius dark blue away kits). Nevertheless, I do not think the color is placed in the right places in this “model”. I have always thought Arsenal’s white sleeves to be amazing. Don’t ruin them!