Shit Football Kits: Remember When The Prodigy Sponsored An U13s Team From Hampshire?

Chris Wright

18th, April 2013

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By Chris Wright

Bands/musicians sponsoring football teams is nothing new. In fact we’ve seen Goldie Lookin’ Chain, Wet Wet Wet and even Stone Roses frontman Ian Brown plastering their names across the front of football strips in the past, but perhaps the most unlikely confluence betwixt music and football was between hardcore 90s ravemongers The Prodigy and Eastleigh Reds, an U13s side from Hampshire.

The story goes that, back in early 2012, Prodigy mainman Liam Howlett caught wind of the fact that Eastleigh Reds’ coach Chris Chapman pepped his young charges up before games by cranking up Prodigy track ‘Warrior’s Dance’ in their dressing room before games.

After being tipped off by a music journalist whose son played for the team, Howlett decided to buy Eastleigh Reds a new kit for the 2012/13 Hants Junior League season, which saw the young’ns turning out in an aquamarine strip (surely red would’ve been the logical choice?) with the band’s ant logo emblazoned across the front…

The lads then went on to win the Hampshire Cup while decked out in their new colours…

More Shit Kits on Pies…

Bolivia Turn Up To 1930 World Cup With ‘VIVA URUGUAY’ Written On Their Kit
Argentina’s Mind-Bending Copa America GK Strip, 1995 

Sheffield Wednesday’s Lilac And Silver Abomination, 1986/87
Monterrey’s Giant Alien Head GK Kit
Jaguares’ Outlandish Jaguar Print Retina Destroyer
Kansas City Wizards’ Radical Rainbow Wave
Clydebank’s Drippy ‘Wet Wet Wet’ Kit
Japan Make Kit From Bedspread At An Old People’s Home

If you’ve got a nasty strip you’d like to see featured, hit us up on waatpies@gmail.com and let us know all about it.

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5 Comments

  1. Lady B says:

    I don’t think this is a Shit Kit as such, definitely not the worst I’ve ever seen! In fact, I quite like it :)

    • Chris says:

      @Lady B: Yeah, it’s just a generic kit. I suppose the shit bit is the strange juxtaposition of pilled-off-their-tits ravers and an U13s Sunday League team from pastoral England.

  2. Ga Truth says:

    They look pilled off their tits to me. Scary scenes.

  3. Jarren says:

    Kits For The Younger Generation, eh? I’m sure Everybody In The Place loved that!

    etc.

  4. Lady B says:

    Saying that, I was probably 13/14 when I first heard the Prodigy, and I was instantly a fan :P

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