A Decade Of Kits: 2007-08
What's the best shirt from the 2007-08 season?
- H) Morecambe Home (38%, 71 Votes)
- O) West Ham Home (9%, 16 Votes)
- C) England Home (8%, 15 Votes)
- M) Sunderland Home (6%, 12 Votes)
- A) Birmingham Home (5%, 9 Votes)
- P) Wigan Home (4%, 7 Votes)
- G) Lincoln City Home (4%, 7 Votes)
- B) Blackburn Home (4%, 7 Votes)
- F) Hull City Home (3%, 6 Votes)
- J) Nottingham Forest Away (3%, 6 Votes)
- K) Rangers Home (3%, 6 Votes)
- L) Republic Of Ireland Away (3%, 6 Votes)
- I) Northern Ireland Away (3%, 6 Votes)
- D) Everton Home (2%, 4 Votes)
- N) West Brom Home (2%, 4 Votes)
- E) Hearts Home (3%, 3 Votes)
Total Voters: 185
Loading ...We’ve got an absolutely mammoth collection of shirts from the 2007-08 season for you to choose from today, so there’s no excuse for not having your say – thanks once again to John Devlin for providing the excellent pictures. Also, if there’s any Umbro shirts that we’ve missed out along the way that you feel should be battling with these kits to be voted the best of the decade, feel free to suggest them as a wild card entry to the competition.
2007-08 wasn’t that long ago, but here’s a quick recap of the season’s key events just in case you need to jog your memory. The biggest event of the season was the Champions League final, where Chelsea met Manchester United for a game full of goals, tears, penalties and red cards. United won on penalties, and also beat the Londoners to the Premier League title. The domestic cups were both secured by teams outside of the ‘big four’, with Tottenham winning the League Cup and Portsmouth winning the FA Cup.
The end of the 2007-08 season saw Reading, Birmingham City and Derby relegated, with The Rams gaining the unwanted tag of the Premier League’s lowest-ever points total, with just 11 points. Replacing them in the top division would be West Brom, Stoke City and Hull City, who reached the top flight of English football for the first time in their history.
Internationally, there was a major shake-up for England after the team failed to qualify for the European Championships, with Fabio Capello replacing Steve McClaren as manager. England were absent from the summer competition held in Austria and Switzerland, which was won by Spain.
Back in the UK, Rangers got to the UEFA Cup final, but were beaten by Zenit St Petersburg. Big transfers this season saw Darren Bent move to Tottenham for £16.5million, Thierry Henry leave Arsenal for Barcelona for £16million, and Nicolas Anelka join Chelsea for £15million.
On 30 Nov 2009, at 11:55 am Nick wrote:
I actually am really fond of the Hull City kit.
On 30 Nov 2009, at 11:59 am Rich Johnson wrote:
Some nice looking kits there, but on the flipside, it seems to perfectly illustrate the scourge of the template design. 16 kits there and beside the various colours, all seem to look the same. The same diamond trim on the sleeves, the same flashes underarm. Thankfully, template shirts seem to be less prevalent of late, but it’s still an easy option. Sorry Umbro…that said, the latest England / Man City strips shows a great new direction…long may it continue.
On 30 Nov 2009, at 12:21 pm Nick wrote:
I didn’t notice that but come to think of it, it’s true. Not so common this season. Seen the new Newcastle kit, one of a kind
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On 30 Nov 2009, at 4:21 pm Glen Cooper wrote:
But one club, Morecambe, has at least adopted, adapted and improved the template to produce an attractive version that, I believe, outsold all its previous kits by a massive margin. And they were poll-toppers in their own right. Up the mighty Shrimps!
On 1 Dec 2009, at 12:26 pm Tim wrote:
I’ve voted for the Birmingham penguin revival kit.
I agree with Rich though regarding the template approach. I got the feeling you’d only piad a designer for a week then just changed the colours and badges. That underarm pattern was a dire throwback to the mid 90s, too and in spoiled an otherwise acceptable design.
Also, I lived in Lincoln when that Lincoln City kit came out. It was the first Umbro kit they’d had since the 70s and there was a veritable uproar that the club’s traditional red and white striped shirts had become solid red with just three white stripes on the front. Funnily enough, it was not one of the template kits and although it wasn’t the worst thing that had happened to Lincoln’s stripes in the last decade or so, it was still a very poor effort.
By the way, how and why did you decide that the double diamonds would be on both shoulders of some kits, but only on one shoulder on others?