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Shit Kits: Leyton Orient’s Acclaim Home Kit, 1995-96

By Ollie Irish

Manufactured by Olympic – a guarantee of shitness, as I recall – this Orient ‘pixels’ home kit (the pixelated design was a nod to sponsors Acclaim) is a classic example of why the 1990s dominates any list of terrible football kits. That said, it’s something of a Marmite shirt and I’m sure there are some Orient fans out there who remember it fondly. Anyone?

Bonus points on offer if you can name any of the players pictured above.

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Posted in FAIL, Featured, Kits & fashion, Retro | 11 Comments »

By Ollie Irish on February 9th, 2011 in FAIL, Featured, Kits & fashion, Retro. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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11 Responses to “Shit Kits: Leyton Orient’s Acclaim Home Kit, 1995-96”

  1. frank says:
    February 9, 2011 at 3:12 pm

    I never realised Michel Salgado played for them.

  2. SamHumphreys says:
    February 9, 2011 at 3:29 pm

    Haha I thought Robbie Savage myself

  3. Tommy says:
    February 9, 2011 at 4:50 pm

    That’s not a shit kit at all, and I don’t think anyone’s said that except for whoever wrote this shitty article.

    It was a very cool idea to make the kit pixelated as the ad was for Akklaim, a video game company. Its a nice kit.

  4. SeanBCFC says:
    February 9, 2011 at 5:39 pm

    it looks like someone went and stabbed super mario (video game, not mcfc sod) and cleaned the mess with that top

  5. Mike Dale says:
    February 10, 2011 at 10:05 am

    The top one is Glenn Cockerill. Saints fans dubbed him ‘Captain Crap’, for obvious reasons, during the early 90s

  6. neil says:
    February 10, 2011 at 1:56 pm

    Frank and Sam, are you over 18yo obviously not………

  7. Bazin Cazin says:
    February 11, 2011 at 11:26 am

    the black fella looks like Sol Campbell

  8. Editor says:
    February 11, 2011 at 5:53 pm

    The three Orient players pictured are Glenn Cockerill, Ian Hendon and Kevin Austin. And the kit was as awful as the team of that particularly depressing period of the club’s history!

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  10. Anthony says:
    February 19, 2011 at 12:05 am

    Does a kit make you play better, even if the kit was top of the range would Orient play better and win more games.

  11. D0ggeril says:
    March 14, 2011 at 7:24 pm

    You must be off your rocker.. that is one of the best kits ive ever seen. It’s a thing of beauty

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