The Evolution of English Football Shirts & Replica Kits

In the first days of the modern football game in England there is hardly any in the way of football clothing for football fans to show their club allegiances.

 

Football Replica kits weren't for sale to fans in those early days, how strange it might appear now that the country's top teams played in kits that didn't feature either a manufacturer's name nor a sponsor's name and logo.

 

Back in those halcyon days football SBOBET would more often than not be wearing shirt, tie & suit and would show their colours with a scarf or bobble-hat knotted by their mother. On a special day like a cup final, fans may even stretch to wearing a rosette on their jackets!

 

As the current football era has show up football shirts have evolved and various football replica kits, training kits and football t-shirts are available these days for football fans.

 

Gone are the traditional heavy cotton football shirts, a contemporary footballer plays in lightweight nylon/lycra shirts. Today's fans can find a replica kit and show their support by wearing the exact same tops that their footballing heroes wear on a match-day.

 

These replica kits represent an enormous marketing chance for clubs in the proper execution of attracting significant sums from kit manufacturers and shirt sponsors and unfortunately the fans have to pay a high price for these cheaply produced shirts.

 

Many fans protest from this commercialisation of the game and prefer to purchase retro football shirts in the old style, without any any corporate logos. Alternatively fans are now able to pick from a wide variety of football t-shirts that are aimed more directly at football fans and the facets of the club that are very important to them.

 

The most used football t-shirts are those who other fans of a supporters'club will appreciate, but may be lost on "outsiders", as well as other t-shirts that express the wearer's favourite players, their club's successes, their support due to their club or often their loathing of a rival club.

 

The present season has seen some interesting changes in the Football Shirts market, most notably with Aston Villa opting to forgo a shirt sponsorship deal and to promote'Acorns ', a local children's hospice on the shirts.