If the following photos are anything to go by, it would appear Liverpool dodged a nauseating bullet at some point around the turn of the 1990s.
With the era of ‘kitchen sink’ football kit design at it’s gaudy peak, it looks like Adidas were planning to bestow and absolute howler of an away shirt on the Reds.
Having already plied Arsenal with their infamous ‘bruised banana’ kit, this rare unearthed sample shirt shows that Adidas had plans to furnish Liverpool with an equally disgusting purple equivalent…
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Yuck. It’s like the sartorial manifestation of a severe migraine.
Mercifully, ‘Pool ended up with this natty little silver number instead…
As we say, definitely dodged a bullet.