Manchester United

MANCHESTER UNITED *THE* KITS The 60s were a time of fashion and style, and United's shirts were at their simplistic best, no sponsor, no zips and no background design. Mind you, when you play like Law, Best and Charlton did, you could wear sky blue and look good. The away shirts, in general, were a white version of the home shirt, except a snazzy yellow number used around about 1972.
	The classic shirt of the decade. Just like the 60s shirt, but with a collar and badge. Cue memories of Law's sleeves, Charltons's flapping strands, and a rather hairy George Best.
	It's become popular to slate United over the number of kits they produce, the media portray it as an endless cycle, ignoring the fact that Wimbledon and Liverpool, to name two, have released more in modern times. At least now, when a new kit is released, it's different from the old one.
	This kit, to the untrained shirt-spotter, is identical to the other two, why change a winning formula after all? But wait. Notice the cuffs and collar, three vital red stripes ensure that the Doc's army go marching on.
	Two differences to the previous kit, the inverted colours on the cuffs, and the new shirt supplier logo for admiral.
	A special mention for this shirt, the only away shirt I've shown, simply because United wore it when they beat the Mickeys at Wembley in '77, to fulfill the Doc's promise. And the lad who got a dart through his nose at Anfield was wearing a replica of this jersey at the time.