Maybe its just me, but i love buyin new kits. i love havin old kits wi players names on em as mementos of days gone by. Think of the salmon kit, mines a gazza one and the silver/grey away, a tommy g. the white danka wi black stuff down sides, big dunc. This years home, pienaar, last years, beattie, prev year, arteta, prev year, carsley. FA cup winning home kit, horne.
I bet this is makin some of think about your previous kits!
Im never as proud as when im walkin about the town in my spankin new Everton kit. I love that feelin!
Incidentally, I was the first person in the world with an Everton home kit with Beattie no.9 on it. was just on everton tour a short while after we signed aj and was being walked around the hallowed turf by the legend Dave Hickson when we got to changing rooms. God bless him he even laid out some kits for us previous to our visit even though the team were on pre season tour. Anyway, on a table thing near the door in home changing room was a piece of paper with the new squads details and their new player numbers. I had suspected that aj would want no.8 and beat would want no.9(he wore 8 prev) but wasn’t sure. anyway dyno dave lifted the piece of paper quick as soon as he saw it sayin ‘I cant let you see this, it’s a bit secret’. I asked him what it was and he said, ‘since your over from northern Ireland you can be the first to see’, beattie no.9 aj no.8.
After tour, straight into megastore, bought the new shirt and said, beattie no.9 please. They said, hes no.8, I said, ive a feeling he will be 9.
They weren’t gonna do it cause they ‘KNEW’ I was wrong and in end I had to talk to a supervisor/manager/assistant manager(not sure which) and basically say its my shirt, surely what I want on it is up to me.
1 hour later in Liverpool city centre I was so proud especially when streams of people came up to me askin when were the new squad numbers released? When did you find out beattie was 9? It was great. The attention I got made me feel like a new player!
True story!