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Created: Tuesday, 04 August 2009 19:50

Written by Ian Shine

Football has produced numerous fashion disasters both on and off the pitch.

Djibril Cisse’s Klub 9 label is the epitome of this off the pitch, specialising in tight sleeveless tops and generic faded logos.

On the pitch it’s hard to find the biggest sinner, but with each new season everyone has a go at outdoing each other with arbitrary colour schemes, unnecessarily large club badges and sponsors, more stripes than you can find on a herd of zebras and crap collars.

If footballers weren’t the modern day deities that they are, you might even be persuaded to think that the people working for Nike or some other sportswear designer have a vendetta against footballers and are just trying to make them look like numpties for the next nine months.

So with no further ado, here’s a rundown of this season’s worst football kits.

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The Eredivisie starts off the European season!

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Created: Tuesday, 04 August 2009 19:50

Written by Darren Douglas

The summer may still technically be here but already the new season has kicked-off in the Netherlands. The Eredivisie is the first major domestic league to have started in Europe, the next to follow will be Ligue 1 in France this coming Saturday. The Dutch league campaign began last weekend and so finally there is some real competitive football to report on.

There has been some upheaval in the Eredivisie since the end of last season, most of which occurred not long after AZ Alkmaar were crowned champions for only the second time in their history. The major news centred around AZ's manager Louis van Gaal deciding to leave the club. After securing the Eredivisie title it was confirmed that he was leaving to take up the manager's mantle at Bayern Munich, disappointing as this may have been to the AZ fans it is difficult to begrudge van Gaal moving on after securing a major footnote in the club's history.

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Wenger must strike while the money's hot

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Created: Thursday, 30 July 2009 14:30

Written by Darren Douglas

Arsenal have been reasonably active in this summer's transfer window, but rather than appeasing the fans who increasingly cry out for reinforcements, Arsène Wenger has been selling off assets. With the departure confirmed yesterday of Kolo Touré to Manchester City for £15million, Arsenal have brought in roughly £40million worth of revenue. At least in terms of finance- Arsenal are on the rise again!

The moving on of Touré is quite an ambiguous transfer, he is still respected and valued by the majority of Arsenal fans, and I feel that he was still good enough to remain at the Emirates. Despite any personal differences between Touré and Gallas, they had forged an impressive central defensive partnership recently. The Ivory Coast international was also the last regular player left at the club from the 2003-04 'Invincibles' title-winning team. As a result his passing on to Manchester City comes as a sentimental water-shed for Arsenal and it's fans. In one respect it may be a good thing, because Arsenal now need to focus on future conquests rather than past glories.

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Are Manchester City the new Real Madrid?

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Created: Monday, 27 July 2009 23:44

Written by Darren Douglas

The start of the football season is fast creeping up on us once again, although in all honesty you've probably been looking forward to the kick-off in August ever since the end of last season. There have of course been some major transfer coups over the summer, punctuated by some unexpected moves- most of which have involved Manchester City in some way.

I'm sure there will be one or two surprise signings or big transfers to come between now and the start of the new Premier League season on August 15th. It's not just all about the Premier League though, of course the other major player in the summer transfer window has been the egotistical establishment of Real Madrid. That's not to quell their ambition, which is clearly to consume every possible competition in their path- whatever the cost to their board and President Florentino Pérez.

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