I totally agree about the old crest, the problem was that the rights to it did not belong to Chelsea and so Bates could not make any money out of it. So money trumped tradition and it was changed to the hiddious thing we had before the current version. Loads of clubs have followed suit since including Arsenal and I think Leicester are about to do the same to cash in on their recent success.
No more adidas http://www.cityam.com/240886/chelsea-and-adidas-agree-to-end-partnership-six-years-early?
No one posted the away kit, probably because it's pretty awful, but here is the third kit which has leaked. Quite clean and probably my favorite of the kits this season http://www.footyheadlines.com/2016/02/leaked-chelsea-16-17-third-kit.html?m=1
Looks like a highschool girls volleyball team jersey. Anyone know if Emenalo moonlighted as a volleyball coach when he was in Arizona to supplement his income? All three kits are shit. It's like they are spiteful parting gift from adidas.
Adidas has had some meh kits over the years. I did like that one shirt we had with the collar. Umbro had some sick stuff, though. I like this one a lot:
yea, adidas was putting out crap jersey templates until around 2012, then they had a couple of good years, and now the most recent templates are crap again. umbro still has some of the best. overall, i'm excited to see what nike brings to the club.
Jerseys in shops early. http://www.football.london/chelsea-fc/news/chelsea-kits-nike-adidas-stores-13253905
I am a little embarrassed to admit that I don't think the shirt looks right without the Adidas stripes.
I used to buy pretty much every kit when we were with Umbro (going back to the 1989 kids shirt I had that didn't even have a sponsor!) I bought not a single adidas shirt as it felt more like an adidas shirt than a Chelsea one, I despise their 3 stripes which overly dominate. Bought the latest Nike one within a week. MUCH cleaner. Much more Chelsea.
just started this year. not even all the clubs have them yet. 'pool announced theirs like just in the past week. ours was announced a month or so ago. fortunately at least ours is themed. it's a subsidiary company of yokohama.
Do I have a screw loose (short answer, yes) or is there no official outlet online that sells new long sleeve jerseys?
also hazard used to wear long sleeve a lot and i noticed this year he is doing shortsleeve over a longsleeve baselayer.