Episode 15: Sponsors and shirts and guillotines, oh my!

Welcome to the fifteenth episode of the Kit Nerd Corner podcast, in which we take down capitalism. It’s a shame Kristin wasn’t with us to help us take down capitalism.

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Grab your pikes, we’re going after rich people (not Rich) to steal their shirts. And forming a commune.

Love ’em, hate ’em: sponsors! We started with a look at our favourite and / or the best sponsors. Thanks to @RNSkipper on twitter for the great suggestion.

Then we talked about some shirts that we used to own and would like to own again. Also, how do you lose a shirt…

Then our normal exploration of recent shirts that we’ve noticed, and finally a list of other things in the world of soccer that deserve mentioning.

And as usual, all the shirts we talk about are pictured below.

Enjoy!

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Episode rundown, with times bolded:

0:00 – INTRODUCTION

Intro music: Definition by Black Star (Mos Def and Talib Kweli)

We sharpen the guillotine blade.

2:00 – OUR FAVOURITE SPONSORS

4:15 – Mark’s favourites: 1860 Munich and Lowenbrau; PSG and Commodore; Seattle Sounders and XBOX; Queen’s Park and IRN BRU;
9:20 – Rich’s favourites: Newcastle and Newcastle Brown Ale; Sheffield Utd and Laver; West Ham and Dagenham Motors; Ajax and ABN-AMRO;
16:20 – Brenton’s favourites: Arsenal and O2; Boca Juniors and Megatone; Parma and Parmalat;

27:05 – SHIRTS WE USED TO OWN

27:20 – Mark gave away a Toronto FC shirt but it barely counts;
28:25 – Brenton used to own the Brazil 1994 home by Umbro;
32:30 – Rich owned the Sheffield Utd 1989-91 away by Umbro THREE TIMES; and Brenton bought a Scotland 1996 away for Rich to give to our friend Allan;
40:20 – Brenton recently lost a 2018 Canada home by Umbro after leaving it on a field;

41:20 – RECENT FINDS

41:35 – Mark loves the new Le Havre 2023-24 home;
47:30 – Rich loves and is going to buy the new FC Prishtina 2023-24 third shirt with roses (not poppies) by Phoenix;
56:50 – Brenton loves the lenticular badge on Nacional’s 2023-24 120th anniversary shirt;
1:01:20 – Rich saw this lovely Santos Laguna 40th anniversary shirt by Charly;

1:07:00 – SHIRTS WE BOUGHT

1:07:30 – Brenton is in love with his new Real Betis 2022-23 cup shirt by hummel;
1:09:05 – Mark bought a (4th division in Wales) Rogerstone AFC shirt feat. tiles by Tor;

We then talked about a bunch of shirts by Tor, who make fun shirts. Really fun.

1:18:05 – ANYTHING ELSE

1:18:20 – Adidas x MLS’ Hispanic Heritage Month shirts, now also pushed by MEXICAN TEAM TIGRES UANL WHAT ARE WE DOING
1:22:20 – John Herdman loved Nike so much he insisted Canada Soccer sign with them;
1:24:10 – Venezia FC and kappa finally made a gondolier shirt;
1:25:30 – La Liga sponsored a team in Wales because there are a lot of Ls in their name;
1:28:10 – Racing Club in Uruguay did a cool thing with their badge as part of a campaign with the national cancer foundation.

1:33:35 – OUTRO

We’ve done some work. Also I inadvertently killed Kristin. Thanks for listening, folks!

Outro music: There Is Power In A Union by Billy Bragg

See below for images of all the shirts we talk about, and jump on over to twitter to let us know what you think about all our blathering.

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Mark: @kitnerdmark

Kristin: @kzknowles

Rich: @teaathalftime

Brenton: @capsoffside

Shirts we discuss in this episode

Sponsors!

Top: 1860 Munich w/ Lowenbrau 1996-97 home by Nike; PSG 1993-94 home w/ Commodore by Nike.
Middle: Seattle Sounders w/ XBOX 2017-18 away by adidas; Queen’s Park w/ IRN-BRU 1999-2000 away by Le Coq Sportif.
Bottom: Chelsea w/ Commodore 1991-92 home by Umbro; Queen’s Park w/ IRN-BRU 2012-13 by Joma.

Top: Newcastle w/ Newcastle Brown Ale 1995-97 home and 1995-96 away by adidas;
Middle: Sheffield Utd w/ Laver 1989-91 away by Umbro; West Ham w/ Dagenham Motors 1995-97 home by Pony;
Bottom: Ajax w/ ABN-AMRO 1993-94 home by Umbro;

Top: River Plate w/ Sanyo 1992-93 by adidas; Boca Juniors w/ Parmalat 1992-95 home by Olan;
Bottom: River Plate w/ Quilmes 1996-98 home by adidas; Boca Juniors w/ Quilmes 1996-98 by Nike;

Top: Arsenal w/ O2 2003-04 home by Nike; Boca Juniors w/ Megatone 2006-07 home by Nike;
Bottom: Parma w/ Parmalat 1997-98 home by Puma; Roma w/ INA Assitalia 2001-02 by kappa;

Mark has a reissue of this Marseille 1993 European home; this year’s Chelsea home, both without sponsors; Arsenal 2005-06 home Highbury;

Shirts that we used to know

Top: Mark gave this Toronto FC 2013-14 home shirt by adidas to a friend; Brenton used to own this Brazil 1994 home by Umbro; Rich has owned this Sheffield Utd 1989-91 away by Umbro THREE TIMES!
Bottom: Rich stole this Scotland 1996 home by Umbro from our friend Allan then traded it back to him; Brenton recently left this Canada 2018 home by Umbro on a field after a game;

Recent finds

Le Havre 2023-24 home by Joma

FC Prishtina 2023-24 third by Phoenix

FC Prishtina 2023-24 GK shirts

Nacional’s 120th anniversary 4th shirt by Umbro feat. lenticular badge!

Santos Laguna 40 year anniversary by Charly

Some of us bought things

Brenton in his beautiful new Real Betis 2022-23 cup shirt by hummel

Mark bought a great new tiled shirt: Rogerstone AFC x Porto by Tor

And then we noticed these wonderful shirts by Tor:

Llantwit Major FC’s 2022-23 GK, in the style of Jorge Campos’s amazing homemade GK shirts, and their 2023-24 GK, feat. Mr Blobby!

Anything else?

Top: Adidas 2023 Hispanic Heritage Month shirts, for Tigres and MLS;
Bottom: Manly Sea Eagles (rugby) 2014 Wolverine shirt; MLS 2023 pre-match Captain America;