Shit Football Kits: Huddersfield’s Electric Tie-Dye, 1991/92
By Chris Wright
The ‘everything including a multi-coloured, whirling abstract rendering of the kitchen sink’ approach to kit design was prevalent during the early-to-mid 1990′s and, strange as it may sound, Gola’s stab at Huddersfield’s 1991/92 change strip represents a fairly hushed and demure effort when sat alongside, say, Birmingham City’s away kit of the same era.
Kapow!
Not that the strip’s relatively understated design prevents it from being an unremitting eyesore by modern standards, though Huddersfield fans flocked in their droves to buy it from the club shop during the ’91/’92 campaign – with the Terriers’ ‘electric tie-dye’ away kit comfortably outselling the home shirt over the course of the season.
In fact, it’s fair to say that the kit has become something of a cult classic at the Galpharm, with Huddersfield and Gola even re-releasing it via the club’s official website for a limited period at the start of this season – there’s no accounting for taste.
Spread eagle, in all it’s glory…
Yeesh.
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wow that’s a seriously shit kit!So glad I was only like 2yrs old that season…
OMG ….I AM HAVING A PANIC ATTACK FROM THE COLORS !! GOD HELP US ALL !!
Ouch. The 90′s were not a good time for away kits.
The “Bukta Barcode” of my very own Super Rams still induces a heavy migraine and tests my gag reflex when I see it. Yes two questions you’ll no doubt have: who the hell are Bukta, and why is this shirt now worth a pound shy of £100..!?
http://www.classicfootballshirts.co.uk/match-worn-shirts/uk-clubs/1993-94-derby-county-match-issue-away-shirt-16.html
to genwilder the comment above:
i had you’re mother on the beutifull alp mountais wearing nothing but this shirt ! and you could tell by the expression on her face while i was Nailing her against a christmass tree , she loved the electric ,, red and blu that was penetrating her Vagine..!! any way none months afetr you were born, thus explaing you re passive agrresivness, im soory son, its ok im here now !!
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Hahaha, I actually made the same face as the dog from the “do not want” meme when I saw that kit. :)
I love this kit! i really do, it is so unqiue that it is simply brilliant. like all the greatest things to far ahead of its time to be appreciated by there contmepories.
Remember Van Gogh died penniless with people thinking he was substanard. sells for millions now… this shit is in the same cataorgory.
I love it!