By Sam Diss
What is it about football fans that make them think that they deserve the best at all times?
Oh. The money. Yeah, forgot about that. All that money.
Fair but specifically, why do fans always kick up a fuss when it comes to new kits? I can only imagine the sleepless nights poor designers have over being unlucky enough to produce a kit that will be worn by a bunch of millionaires playing football in front of literally millions of spectators.
Images leaked earlier of the new Spurs kit showing off a strip that’s clean and modern with retro touches; nowt gauche or self-consciously trendy – just a plain white shirt with a great navy sash-stripe. The strip ITSELF, has stripes cut out of it, like it’s a race-car. If you don’t want a kit that looks a bit like a race-car then you don’t deserve nice things.
Seriously, what’s not to love?
Look at Kane's kit closely. I'm 99% sure this is our new kit for next season. Thoughts? #COYS pic.twitter.com/przbDLQjNo
— Spurs In The Blood (@SpursInTheBlood) May 12, 2015
Apparently, a lot. There’s a lot not to love, if you ask the Twitter’s WHL faithful.
Despite the fact that Premier League kits are currently in the design doldrums, Spurs fans are throwing shade. Insults have run the social media gamut from “this is a piece of sh*t that I wouldn’t even feed to my dog” (thankfully since deleted by the poor, confused sole who mashed it out) and this:
Hopefully this isn't the new kit. It looks like something you'd see on the tail of a airplane. #THFC pic.twitter.com/NMxh4LrCE5
— West Coast Spurs (@WestCoast_Spurs) May 12, 2015
What do you mean, West Coast Spurs? What does this mean? It’s a moot question because you clearly don’t know. You don’t know what plane tails look like and you don’t know your elbow from a cracking kit.
If you’re of the “wearing your football shirt down the pub” brigade (and there’s bound to be a few of you perverts out there) then this shirt, if it the rumours are true, could be your ace of spades.
Throw a light jacket over the top and bosh: you’re ready to quietly drink a slightly flat pint of ale in a Holloway Road boozer.
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