Welcome to the sixteenth episode of the Kit Nerd Corner podcast, in which we settle down and just talk about shirts. Some sponsors too. No Kristin again, so we have no idea what she thinks about sponsors.

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Love ’em, hate ’em: It’s more sponsors! In this episode we talk about the hate ’em ones. Turns out there are a lot of different reasons to dislike sponsors.

We then turned our keen attention to some real bangers that were released. Also a terrible shirt or two.

As (sometimes) usual, we bought some shirts, and we talked about those shirts. Mark delved into his spreadsheets. Rich impulse bought a shirt he brought to our attention last episode. And another last episode callback: Brenton replaced one of the shirts that he lost.

We finished off by noting some random things we noticed in the soccer world.

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 explore why Kristin is not here, again. We suspect something is up.

1:30 – OUR NOT FAVOURITE SPONSORS

• 2:00 – Southampton and LD Sports, 2019-20
• 4:50 – Atlético Madrid (and Sheffield Wednesday) and Azerbaijan – Land of Fire, 2013-15;
• 6:40 – Newcastle and Wonga, ugh; 2013-17
• 7:35 – Eintracht Braunschweig and Jagermeister, 1972-1986
• 10:20 – Everton and Hafnia, 1979-85
• 13:45 – Olympique Marseille and Orange (in orange), 2017-19

16:35 – SPONSORS THAT RUINED SHIRTS

• 16:45 – Napoli and Lete, 2006-20
• 19:15 – Manchester United and Chevrolet, 2014-21
• 23:00 – Pacific FC third / away and VW and Telus but mostly Telus, 2022-23

27:45 – RECENT FINDS IN SHIRT LAND

• 27:55 – River Plate 2023-24 away kit (based off the famed diamonds template from 1994-96; it isn’t though) and third kit (black, sash) by Adidas;
• 33:05 – FC Midtjylland 2023-24 third by Puma;
• 35:45 – Athens Kallithea 2023-24 third by kappa;
• 38:30 – Hummel ‘equality jersey’ and Malaga 2023-24 away
• 44:05 – Atlético Mineiro 2023-24 Manto de Massa (cloak of the masses) – in-house.

46:50 – SHIRTS WE BOUGHT

• 47:03 – Mark found the Cagliari 2020-21 home by Adidas, a shirt he’s had on his spreadsheet wishlist. And he’s getting it shipped to his hotel in Portugal, which is fun as hell;
• 51:15 – Rich bought the FC Prishtina third by Phoenix that we talked about at length last episode;
• 56:15 – Brenton bought a Canada 2005 home by Adidas, which turned out to be the women’s shirt – fun!

58:05 – ANYTHING ELSE

• 58:20 – Albion Rovers (Welsh 5th div?) have a new shirt by Tor that is entirely made up of the Subway logo arrows; it is tragic;
• 1:00:00 – New beautiful Roma third shirt by Adidas ruined by a Saudi Arabia resort sponsor;
• 1:01:25 – Napoli released a Halloween shirt! It’s covered in skulls;
• 1:02:30 – Sharktopus FC (!!) have a wonderfully ridiculous shirt by Olive & York;

1:07:20 – OUTRO

Outro music: Musically Inclined by Abstract Rude & Tribe Unique

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

The podcast: @KitNerdCorner

Mark: @kitnerdmark

Kristin: @kzknowles

Rich: @teaathalftime

Brenton: @capsoffside

Shirts we discuss in this episode

Sponsors!

Top: Southampton 2019-20 home with LD Sports, Atlético Madrid 2014-15 home with Azerbaijan – Land of Fire, Sheffield Wednesday 2014-15 home.
Middle: Newcastle 2013-14 home with Wonga, Eintracht 1977-78 home with Jagermeister as the club crest, Eintracht 2003-04 home with normal lion crest.
Bottom: Everton 1980-81 home with Hafnia, Olympique Marseille 2017-18 home with orange Orange, Olympique Marseille 2017-18 away with white Orange.

Top: Napoli 2014-15 home with Lete (and Garofalo), Napoli 2020-21 home with Lete.
Middle: Manchester United 2015-16 home with Chevrolet, and 2018-19 away.
Bottom: Pacific 2023 third with Telus.

Recent finds

Top: River Plate 2023-24 third, and 1994-95 away that is purports to reference.
Bottom: Germany 1994 away, and River Plate 2023-24 away.
All by Adidas.

FC Midtjylland 2023-24 third by Puma.

Top: Athens Kallithea 2023-24 third by kappa, Arsenal 2001-02 away by Nike.
Middle: Palermo 2005-06 home by Lotto; Atlético Mineiro 2023-24 Manto de Massa, made by them.
Bottom: Malaga 2023-24 away by hummel, 2023-24 Pride shirt by hummel, with the FC Köln crest.

Some of us bought things

Mark bought this Cagliari 2020-21 home by Adidas, and is getting it shipped to a hotel in Portugal, where a concierge with hold it for him. It’s all very sophisticated.

Rich finished recording last episode and immediately bought the shirt he highlighted, the 2023-24 third for FC Prishtina by Phoenix. This is a picture of Rich with a Kosovar model.

And Brenton replaced his lost Canada 2018 home by Umbro with a 2005 home by Adidas. But the women’s shirt. It flares a tiny bit at the hips.

Anything else?

Roma’s new third that is beautiful but will soon be defaced with a hotel sponsor; Albion Rovers (the one in Wales 5th div) new away by Tor sponsored and incorporating the Subway logo.

Napoli’s 2023 Halloween shirt by Armani; Sharktopus (!) US Open Cup shirt by Olive & York.

And that’s it. Thanks for reading along, gang. Enjoy soccer!