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ROTHERHAM UNITED AWAY 1993-94

For Football Laundry’s inaugural post, it seemed appropriate to look at a shirt from the team I actually support. That would be Rotherham United, my home-town club, a club almost entirely without glamour whose most famous celebrity fans are the Chuckle Brothers . Still, I feel like Rotherham United punch above their weight a lot of the time, with the upcoming season being another one spent in the Championship - Premier League, here we come. Anyway, let’s check out Rotherham’s 1993-94 away shirt, shall we? Made by Matchwinner, this is perfect example of mid-nineties away kit design. While the home shirts were (mostly) kept fairly straightforward in deference to the traditions of the clubs and to avoid upsetting the fans, away shirts were fair game for experimentation. Yellow has been a pretty common colour for Rotherham’s away shirts over the years, and here it’s complemented - perhaps not the right word – by a swirling spray of black that could be intended to evoke tiger st...
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"BRAZIL" HOME

If you were putting together a list of history’s most iconic football kits, the gold and green of Brazil would surely be right at the top. I mean, number one with a bullet. What else could possibly compete? It’s practically the uniform of the World Cup itself, the outfit of some truly legendary players, the merest hint of it summoning forth memories of incredible goals, incredible teams and, incredibly, a good television commercial . Yes, it would be wonderful if I had an official Brazil shirt. I don’t. I have this thing instead, I’m sure a lot of kids who were into football ended up with unofficial versions of shirts, cheap knock-offs and loosely club-affiliated “street wear” tops bought by relatives who didn’t know better or who (understandably) baulked at paying ridiculous prices for real-deal shirts. I definitely had some of these shirts growing up in varying degrees of quality, from a retro-style t-shirt based on Brazil’s seventies shirts that I loved so much I wore it ...
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US AVELLINO ZURIGO 2006-10

A couple of posts ago I talked about a shirt from US Avellino , a team I almost accidentally ended up  semi-following after playing as them in a football management sim. I considered myself very lucky to pick up even one decently-priced Avellino shirt, but my most recent pick-up was another Avellino shirt – well, sort of. It’s US Avellino Zurigo’s 2006-10 kit! There’s a lot of guesswork on my part when it comes to this shirt. Pictures on the club website show players wearing it in pictures marked from 2006 to 2010, but I’m not entirely sure whether it’s a home or away shirt, or perhaps even both. US Avellino do traditionally have green home shirts and a white change strip – but this isn’t the Italian US Avellino 1912. It’s US Avellino Zurigo, founded in 2003 in Switzerland. Zurich, specifically, which is why they’re Avellino Zurigo. Presumably founded by Italian ex-pats or the descendants thereof who supported the original Avellino, Avellino Zurigo are a non-league ...
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