38: Stripes!

After four years and fifty episodes of different kinds, The Kitbliss Podcast has finally reached the end of the line. We've almost run out of words on the subject of football design, but we're taking this one last opportunity to give you the benefit of our wisdom. You lucky people... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's often been noted on The Kitbliss Podcast that certain teams in England and Wales can't help but turn their backs on tradition. Take those clubs that usually wear striped home shirts. Why do some of them switch to a plain shirt every few years, or wear a diagonal sash or something completely different? In this episode, Rich Johnson joins Chris Oakley to look at those teams who can't resist an occasional change, looking at the best striped shirts and the most interesting 'break with tradition' shirts... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you're a regular visitor to the Kitbliss website, you'll know that a major new project has recently started that looks at the 100 Greatest Football Shirt Templates. Well we couldn't pass up an opportunity to talk in greater depth about that, so here's the first episode of many in which we check out the templates in positions 100 up to 96 in our countdown... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's the Kitbliss Christmas episode for 2021, and some of you have been kind enough to 'give' us football shirts as presents. How kind! But as we all know, Christmas can be a perilous time when loved ones gift us an item of clothing which is, shall we say, 'unwanted...' Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Can it really be 15 years ago since John Devlin's second book, True Colours 2, was released? For those of us that own a copy, time has certainly flown since we got our hands on another bumper batch of John's kit illustrations... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How often have you ever thought a football shirt would be much better if one thing about it was different? Here on The Kitbliss Podcast, we're thinking that all the time (don't judge us). To see if our instincts are right, we decided to put our theory to the test... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Kitbliss Podcast returns with a look at some of the most controversial football kit designs of the last few years. Are Puma marketing geniuses or incredibly bad at making football kits? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chris talks to regular Kitbliss Podcast guest Jay about his introduction to football and kit design, his long-standing connection with Design Football, baselayers, French football and much, much more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For this year's festive episode, the Kitbliss team are shying away from the frankly shambolic quiz format of previous years and instead embarking on an altogether more valid project. Yes, this year, we're trying to find out what is The Most Average Football Kit of 2020... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If there's one thing we've been meaning to do on The Kitbliss Podcast, it's focus on one kit manufacturer and assess their output throughout. Well, we've finally got round to doing just that as on this episode we look at the work of French sportswear supplier Le Coq Sportif. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.