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New Everton purple and gold charity kit is fastest-selling in club’s history

Everton purple charity kit Moyes

This is officially the fastest-selling kit in Everton history, breaking the record set by the current home kit, even though it’s only available to pre-order.

It’s a limited edition, purple-and-gold kit, launched to help raise money for the Liverpool Unites children’s charity, set up to help underpriveleged kids after the murder of schoolboy Rhys Jones.

According to a press release on the charity’s website, £100,000 is hoped to be raised by the sale of the shirt. The release also says:

“Melanie and Stephen Jones, parents of 11-year-old Evertonian Rhys, met with Everton manager David Moyes and Russian midfielder Diniyar Bilyaletdinov to unveil the shirt at the team’s training ground, Finch Farm.

“Each shirt will be individually boxed, numbered and presented with a certificate of authenticity.

“It can be pre-ordered from evertondirect.com from Friday 9 October for delivery on first release date of 30 October.

“The shirt will be officially launched at a special black tie dinner at Club Everton in Goodison Park on Thursday 29 October 2009.”

Quite apart from the fact it’s for a very good cause, Pies thinks the kit is super-smart. You like?

More photos below:

Everton purple kit

Everton purple kit 2

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Posted in Everton, Featured, Kits & fashion | 9 Comments »

By Ollie Irish on October 16th, 2009 in Everton, Featured, Kits & fashion. 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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9 Responses to “New Everton purple and gold charity kit is fastest-selling in club’s history”

  1. shanks says:
    October 16, 2009 at 4:11 pm

    Yet another nice gesture from a decent, old-fashioned (in the best sense), community football club

  2. Delboy Dublin says:
    October 16, 2009 at 4:38 pm

    It’s a damn sight nicer than their home kit, that’s for sure. I assume the purple signifies Blue & Red combined?

  3. Ollie says:
    October 16, 2009 at 7:30 pm

    @ Dellboy: Yep, it does.

  4. 3nil.co.uk says:
    October 17, 2009 at 8:43 am

    New Everton purple and gold charity kit is fastest-selling in club’s history « Who Ate all the Pies…

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  5. Liam P says:
    October 17, 2009 at 3:01 pm

    haha Quality pose from Bilyaletdinov, a born model

  6. JXL65 says:
    October 22, 2009 at 6:01 pm

    Do you think one liners are in vogue ? ,

  7. BadGirl55 says:
    October 23, 2009 at 2:58 pm

    This seems like a good idea for the chronically unmotivated. ,

  8. Photos: Tottenham Hotspur 2-0 Everton, League Cup (Everton lose despite purple charity kit) » Who Ate all the Pies says:
    October 28, 2009 at 11:47 am

    [...] played in their purple charity kit last night at Spurs, but it didn’t help them, as they looked very jaded – but then this was [...]

  9. Montesquieu says:
    August 17, 2010 at 8:09 pm

    Looks classy…

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