It’s MAREX and ADIDAS (again!) and not BALLY’s, not KAIYUN SPORTS not MACRON, not BOXT, or UNHCR

Wickio said:
I'd imagine they're £62.50 as they're duty free. Would expect JD in Vic to be £75. Cheers though!
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Most likely.

A quick look on their app has them at £75 so the £62.50 will be duty free.
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king_congo_red said:
No, you'll have to buy the Blue goalkeepers jersey, rip the sleeves off that and stitch 'em on.
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I found a cheaper option, which was to paint your arms with light-blue paint.

4.99 a tin from B&Q, cheapest way to do it.
 
Shearstone said:
I hear that every year and I can still tell within a second of seeing one. Especially the badge.
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Same here. There's so many little things that add up to it obviously being fake. From the thin and less compact stitching on the badges, to the general fit and the very slight variation in colour shades. It's enough to add up to them looking poor every year
 
Notcher said:
Same here. There's so many little things that add up to it obviously being fake. From the thin and less compact stitching on the badges, to the general fit and the very slight variation in colour shades. It's enough to add up to them looking poor every year
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That's the first things my 9 and 4 year old look at before putting their grubby little fingers all over them.
 
Notcher said:
I've got to admit, I do think why do I bother when my 9 years old trundles into the room with a load of Bolognese sauce and chocolate down the front.
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I know what you mean. My youngest got the away kit as a Christmas present last year, within 20 minutes he'd snagged it.

It's just a waste of money sometimes when it comes to kids.
 
Say this at least half in jest because obviously a fairly trivial point, but I also I am sort of curious about the long sleeve revival from a fashion v sports science viewpoint.

Long sleeves disappeared for twenty odd years and were replaced by moisture wicking compression tops under short sleeves. Now they are back as a retro fashion thing. Adidas first, but others manufacturers have followed.

Back in the day every side had two or three players who played in long sleeves.... Nigel Clough, Brian Rice, Terry Wilson, Bryan Roy, Chris Bart-Williams, etc. Martin O'Neill and Dave Phillips wore long sleeves rolled up.

All of these players though wore short sleeves in August/September when temps were around 20° or higher. That made sense perfect sense.

Overnight we've gone from seeing no long sleeves on outfield footballers, to them being worn even in conditions when the old school long sleeve football icons wouldn't.

We've just had a World Cup where a load of players in sides kitted out by Adidas played in long sleeves. Yet good luck finding an outfield player at Italia 90 or USA 94 wearing long sleeves when they were available to every team. And why would they? Steve Staunton stood for the national anthem in a hat in '94 just to give him a few minutes extra respite from the heat in Orlando. This summer players on both sides played a World Cup Final kicking off in 28° played in long sleeves. Spain and Argentina may cope better in the heat than Staunton, but is there not still a marginal loss traded here for looking admittedly very cool? Ferran Torres became the first player to score in a World Cup Final whilst wearing long sleeves since the 1970s, channelling Mario Kempes and Gerd Müller, when people were far cooler and sports science nerds were not really a thing.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of the long sleeve revival and bought two long sleeve Forest shirts this summer. But the David Brailsford sport scientist marginal gains types employed at top sports teams can't be happy about all the elite athletes performing in heatwaves wearing clothing designed for the winter months.

In our first home game back in the PL after promotion West Ham walked out in all black to play in the hottest conditions I've personally experienced in forty years of going to the City Ground. I do find it interesting when in these days of marginal gains elite athletes and sports teams make what appear to a laymen to be a fairly basic marginal loss faux pas. And when Liverpool cruise to the title, then reintroduce long sleeves maybe you believe that those sleeves compliment Dom Szoboslai's man bun, but I did still wonder in a very 0.1% sense if the defending champions of one of the biggest sports competitions on the planet were putting fashion before performance by starting their defence in excess sweaty material in August.

And this morning I'm wondering, nothing to with heat this time, had Neco Williams played in short sleeves yesterday, might Forest have won 1-0. Maybe the ball touched the excess material of the admittedly cool looking long sleeve.

99.9% of this long waffle is nonsense and I'm not serious. But do think there is probably 0.1% truth to it - which we've been led to believe for years makes all the difference in sport at the highest level. So I don't even know what I think. Other than those long sleeves do look good.
 
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Wayde van Kneejerk said:
Say this at least half in jest because obviously a fairly trivial point, but I also I am sort of curious about the long sleeve revival from a fashion v sports science viewpoint.

Long sleeves disappeared for twenty odd years and were replaced by moisture wicking compression tops under short sleeves. Now they are back as a retro fashion thing. Adidas first, but others manufacturers have followed.

Back in the day every side had two or three players who played in long sleeves.... Nigel Clough, Brian Rice, Terry Wilson, Bryan Roy, Chris Bart-Williams, etc. Martin O'Neill and Dave Phillips wore long sleeves rolled up.

All of these players though wore short sleeves in August/September when temps were around 20° or higher. That made sense perfect sense.

Overnight we've gone from seeing no long sleeves on outfield footballers, to them being worn even in conditions when the old school long sleeve football icons wouldn't.

We've just had a World Cup where a load of players in sides kitted out by Adidas played in long sleeves. Yet good luck finding an outfield player at Italia 90 or USA 94 wearing long sleeves when they were available to every team. And why would they? Steve Staunton stood for the national anthem in a hat in '94 just to give him a few minutes extra respite from the heat in Orlando. This summer players on both sides played a World Cup Final kicking off in 28° played in long sleeves. Spain and Argentina may cope better in the heat than Staunton, but is there not still a marginal loss traded here for looking admittedly very cool? Ferran Torres became the first player to score in a World Cup Final whilst wearing long sleeves since the 1970s, channelling Mario Kempes and Gerd Müller, when people were far cooler and sports science nerds were not really a thing.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of the long sleeve revival and bought two long sleeve Forest shirts this summer. But the David Brailsford sport scientist marginal gains types employed at top sports teams can't be happy about all the elite athletes performing in heatwaves wearing clothing designed for the winter months.

In our first home game back in the PL after promotion West Ham walked out in all black to play in the hottest conditions I've personally experienced in forty years of going to the City Ground. I do find it interesting when in these days of marginal gains elite athletes and sports teams make what appear to a laymen to be a fairly basic marginal loss faux pas. And when Liverpool cruise to the title, then reintroduce long sleeves maybe you believe that those sleeves compliment Dom Szoboslai's man bun, but I did still wonder in a very 0.1% sense if the defending champions of one of the biggest sports competitions on the planet were putting fashion before performance by starting their defence in excess sweaty material in August.

And this morning I'm wondering, nothing to with heat this time, had Neco Williams played in short sleeves yesterday, might Forest have won 1-0. Maybe the ball touched the excess material of the admittedly cool looking long sleeve.

99.9% of this long waffle is nonsense and I'm not serious. But do think there is probably 0.1% truth to it - which we've been led to believe for years makes all the difference in sport at the highest level. So I don't even know what I think. Other than those long sleeves do look good.
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As a kit nerd I found this interesting. I'm very glad long-sleeves are back (although they never entirely disappeared) but you definitely have a point about footballers living in a world of the tiniest marginal gains...
 
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