Through the seasons before us..

No, your eyes are not deceiving you – Ian Breckin hasn’t been called up to the England squad – but you’d think it at a glance (well, red shorts aside!) if you only half checked out the long-awaited new Forest away kit.  Don’t get me wrong, it’s a nice shirt – but it’s the same as the England kit!  Much like our home shirt strongly resembles the England away kit.

Now I realise that there’s lots of kits for manufacturers like Umbro to process through their sweat shops*, but really does there have to be such a limited selection of choices – why would a Forest fan who has already invested in a national shirt opt to purchase an all-but identical version for their club as well?  Well, they probably will, but why should they be expected to?

Of course – the opposite of this is when there was a phase of striking originality at least for well known teams – who can forget our yellow away kit with a Ribena-vomited Forest badge down the right shoulder?  Or the never-worn lime green third kit?  Who could ever cast from their mind the wonderfully original (sic) tartan away kit Notts County once sported (no, really!).  I wouldn’t want to return to those dark days, but really – are we to be subjected to nothing but template kits with our club’s colour-scheme and badge differentiating it from anyone else’s?

That said, I’ll probably still get one!

* I should probably put allegedly on here somewhere, just to be safe.