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Every shirt tells a story
Untold Stories
A curated selection of shirts defined not by glory, but by the anomalies, printing errors, and legendary stories woven into the fabric.
1995-96 Fiorentina Home L/S Shirt
The Space Clause
Ever the eccentric, Schwarz at different points during his career had expressed interest in becoming a "space tourist" so when he signed for Sunderland later in his career, the club inserted a "space clause" into his contract stating that if he were to travel into space during his time at the club, his contract would be invalid and he'd be released from the club.
1991-92 Yugoslavia Home Shirt
The Lost Nation
After Yugoslavia were banned from Euro 1992, local factories that produced the shirt in Ireland distributed the shirt locally, meaning lots of Irish youth teams ended up wearing them.
1995-96 Deportivo de La Coruna Home Shirt
Sleeve Numbers
As wearing namesets on shirts became more common in the early 1990s, some teams took it to a new level and decided to employ different tactics. Given the blank space on the sleeves of this classic Umbro shirt, they decided to add numbers to each sleeve as well as the reverse of the shirt. Legendary Brazillian Rivaldo wore this design too!
1999-00 South China Special Shirt
South China vs United
As worn in a one off friendly game vs Manchester United in 1999. Taking place in the futuristic looking Hong Kong stadium, the European Champions dispatched South China with a 2-0 defeat. The two sides had previously met in 1997 too, with United winning 1-0. The South China connection remained strong enough for years to come, with Class of 92 star Nicky Butt joining the side in 2010, playing three games and scoring one goal.
1983-84 Feyenoord Away Shirt
Cruyff's Controversial Move
Worn the season Johan Cruyff controversially joined the club from Ajax after some difficult contract negotiations and won the league and cup double in his final season as a player.
1998-99 Real Betis Home Shirt
Denilson's Record Fee
Worn in Denilson's first season with Los Verdiblancos as he made the move from Sao Paulo for a world record fee of £21.5 million. Unfortunately, despite his lofty price tag, the winger failed to make his mark at the club and Betis were actually relegated to the second tier in 2000. After a few more years with the club punctuated by a loan spell back to Flamengo, Denilson left the club in 2005 with fans wondering what could've been for the record breaking attacker.
1997-99 Rangers Home Shirt
Negri's Squash Injury
As worn by the engimatic Italian striker when he famously top scored in the 1997-98 season with 32 league goals in 28 games. He also managed to score 23 league goals in his first 10 games in this season. However, Negri's scoring run was brought to an end by a injury to the retina in his eye which required surgery, attributed to a squash match with team mate Sergio Porrini. He would never recapture this goalscoring form post recovery and suffered further injuries which kept him out of action.
1990-91 Paris Saint-Germain GK Shirt
The Goalkeeper Loophole
Even though PSG's outfield shirts were made by Nike during this season, the contracts for goalkeepers would be different, with keepers often wearing a different brand to the rest of their team, this is a classic example of this. There are several great shots of Bernard Lama wearing some interesting designs during the 1990s which were not made by Nike.
1997-98 Atletico Madrid Puma Graphic Shirt
Atleti Mash Ups
These wonderful leisure shirt/home shirt mash ups were a great touch from Puma, who covered designs for some other Atleti players alongside Kiko including Juninho. Perhaps a stolen idea from the great 1995 Barcelona Kappa designs with a very similar look.
2013-14 Roma Player Issue Away Shirt
Unbranded Roma
In an era where some teams have multiple shirt sponsors and various commercial partners, Roma decided to go without a manufacturer and main sponsor this season producing these memorable designs. At later points in the season they featured a "Roma Cares" sponsor.
1997 Pepsi 'GeneratioNext' Shirt
Generation Next
Pepsi released these stunning shirts in 1997 as part of the "GeneratioNext" marketing campaign, which featured in a four minute advertisement at the SuperBowl for that year.
2002-03 Blackburn Away Shirt
Sukur's Exile
Despite him being a legend of Turkish football (all time top goalscorer and legendary Galatasaray star) Sukur is now exiled from Turkey due to his association with certain political causes and his outspoken nature on social media towards the government. As a result of his exile Sukur moved to the United States, and for a brief amount of time was working as an Uber driver in New York. He's now received a green card to stay indefinitely and has set up a football school in California.
2001-02 Middlesbrough Home Shirt
The Highest Paid Player
Despite some of the stars that the Premier League hosted in the early 00s, it was rumoured that mid-table Middlesbrough were paying Boksic over £63,000 per week, which made him the highest paid player in the league at the time. These rumours were denied by manager Bryan Robson but still remains an interesting story.
2017-18 AC Milan Player Issue GK Shirt
The Donnarumma Deal
After Gianluigi Donnarumma announced himself to the world in the 2015-16 campaign with Milan, he was hot property and desired by many of Europe's other top clubs. In order to secure a contract extension with the young keeper, Milan agreed to also sign Gianluigi's brother Antonio in order to sweeten the deal, agreed with infamous football agent Mino Raiola.
1999 La Liga XI 'No Drogas' L/S Shirt
La Liga XI
Shirt as worn in a game by a La Liga XI vs Real Madrid in 1999 where the La Liga XI lost out 3-2 courtesy of goals from Anelka, Guti and Morientes. Both sides wore the "No Drogas" sponsor in the game. This format was played several times prior to 1999 with some other great shirts seen.
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