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10.Cameroon thought they were being really clever with this 'revolutionary' kit that would help their players breathe better, run better, and if they were lucky, not lose before the quarter final stage as they usually do. However, someone forgot to tell the kitmakers that the sleeves actually fell off after about an hour's wear - and the whole thing was shredded after 90 minutes. No wonder nobody ever swapped shirts with the Cameroon team after the match! Down on the list because it's just bloody stupid.

9. Fiorentina. Now someone explain this one to me - kit design has a process, yes? There's a concept process, where a few kits are mocked up and shown to a bunch of people who say 'I like this one but not those five', and then it goes to the design process, it gets approved, it gets made, it gets put in the shops and then someone turns around and says 'hang on - it's got swastikas all over it'. It's not like a comma slipping out of a newspaper article type of error - this was Fiorentina's away kit, covered in Nazi symbolism. You've got to admire them for their, erm, courage?

8. Athletic Bilbao. I've always had a soft spot for the Basques - those big-nosed beret-wearing fighters who, it is now believed, were the first settlers in Great Britain thousands of years ago, and the first settlers anywhere in Europe. They're old, you see. Older than us. And don't say the Free Bet Bookmaker only teaches you about betting and sports stuff! We know loads, us. So, back to the kit. My God, it's grim isn't it. Here's what probably happened. Some kid with photoshop is playing around with images of sick and adds a red filter to it. After applying a few effects to the sick, he then transposes it onto a football kit and prints it out. His father, who is about to send off his images to the kitmaker of Athletic Bilbao for the final design of their new kit, gets them mixed up, sends the wrong one, gets the sack, hits the bottle big time, his wife leaves him and the kid continues to take the drugs that helped him design this God-awful mess.

7. Anything worn by Jorge Campos - especially this. Oh he's such a character isn't he, little Campos? He leaps around and jokes and all that - and he wears some of the most ridiculous outfits ever seen on a football field. Would Gordon Banks have worn this? I very much doubt it. The only reasoning I can think of is that he's trying to blind the opposition strikers. It never worked. And this came at the same time his teammates were all wearing this:

6. Mexico. Seriously, tie-dye? Tie-dye never went out of fashion because it was never IN fashion - although nobody ever told the Mexican team because they proudly paraded themselves around - albiet for a thankfully short length of time - in this monstrosity. That's meant to be Montezuma, you know. With a hangover.

5. Coventry. What gets me most about this kit is not actually the kit itself, but the look on the fella's face, which seems to say "Do I really have to have my photo taken in this stupid brown kit?" Well yes, and you aren't helping your case by growing your ginger hair into a perm. One fashion no-no would have Gok running a mile, but in this case, he's probably quite turned on. This was also the time when football kit makers decided to introduce those awful 'swoosh' lines that were supposed to make fat footballers look slim. Not happening.

4. Naarwich City. Delightful. Now, not many people would take notice if Norwich were wearing this kit in, say, the 3rd division, but noooo, they decided to wear it when they were actually TOP OF THE LEAGUE. Remember those days? Them and Coventry battling it out - albeit until October when they remembered they were shite and that they had Efan Ekoku in the side. This kit is more like bird sick than anything else, and quite how they got away with it, no one knows.

3. Chelsea. There were quite a few opportunities for Chelsea kits, including that horrific grey and orange combo that they wore a few years ago. This one, however, takes the biscuit. Of all the ways to combine red and white, they had to choose this one. Just looking at it makes you go cross-eyed, and the fact that they were sponsored by Commodore only adds to the effect. Brilliant.

2. Hull City. If every club took their nickname and applied it to their shirt, then football would be a very very ugly place. Everton would be a toffee-coloured brown, and Liverpool would be the colour of shite. Hull City, though, took this to the extreme, and decided to dress themselves up as tigers. Because - wait for it - they're nicknamed 'The Tigers'. Instead, they ended up looking like Marlene Boyce with hairy legs - and with all the class. What's more, they have Nick Barmby, an even greater reason to hate this kit. Dreadful, just dreadful.

1. Scunthorpe. There really is nothing more I can say about this kit. It's everything about the 80's / early 90's that was wrong about football kits. It's as if Timmy Mallett put on a pink shirt, covered himself in superglue and plunged head-first into the sweets section at Woolworths. An absolute abomination that is only compounded by the fact they were sponsored by Pleasure Island at the time. Scunthorpe, I salute you.

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published: 5th August 2008 by Free Bet Bookmaker

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