NEW KIT SPECIAL: The strips your team will be wearing
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PREMIER LEAGUE NEW KIT SPECIAL: The strips your team will be wearing for season 2010-11
Some fans are delighted with the new kit, some deflated. And before the official release there is always some dodgy fakes doing the rounds on the internet.
So with a whole host of new strips hitting the stores in the coming weeks - Sportsmail brings you the best - and worst - of what's on offer.
ARSENAL
Not officially revealed or launched yet but you can clearly see some detail of the Gunners new jersey in this picture.
The only question must be why they have asked Mikael Silvestre to wear it? This is the first of a number of retro outfits we will see next season.
70s chic: Mikael Silvestre models the Gunners' new kit
The kit Arsenal will be wearing was inspired by uniforms they wore during the Double winning season of 1970-71.
Well, they've tried everything else over the last five years - maybe te new shirts can inspire them to silverware.
SPORTSMAIL VERDICT: Well, we can only see a shoulder but it looks smart. We also like taking inspiration from the Double-wining kit. 7/10
BIRMINGHAM CITY
Winner: Here's the kit which won the Birmingham fans' vote
Here’s a unique way of choosing your new kit – let the fans do it.
Birmingham offered their supporters four options for their new strip and the winner was chosen via an online poll.
And here's the winner. With 33 per cent of the vote, this will be the Blues' new home jersey, shorts and socks when the season restarts in August.
The innovative solution to kit selection came after the club signed a ground-breaking agreement with Chinese sportswear firm Xtep to supply their kit for the next five years.
The deal, worth £7.8 million, has been completed on the back of Carson Yeung’s arrival.
SPORTSMAIL RATING: Nice V on the neck, but not that different to this season's, is it? 6/10.
BLACKBURN ROVERS
Red Rovers: Blackburn's new away kit
A simple design for Rovers’ away kit next season.
But then they don’t want to make away days too difficult for their fans after the season they’ve endured.
BOLTON WANDERERS
New kit on the block: Kevin Davies in the new Bolton strip
This snazzy number will adorn Trotters’ players and fans next season and it a marked improvement on the current effort.
Designed and manufactured by Reebok, the new home shirt features a raft of features which no one really understands.
It has a moisture management system called ‘Play Dry’ which aids the players’ performance. Apparently. Very smart - and doesn’t Kevin Davies look proud?
But if you squint a bit, it looks exactly the same as the current kit. No?
All they've done is take the grey stripes away from the bottom and put some Reebok branding on the arms.
On sale now.
SPORTSMAIL RATING: Erm, it's white and there's blue and a bit of red it in. Far from inspiring. 5/10
CHELSEA
Calm down dear, it’s just a bit of red on the Chelsea blue kit. The bright trim is homage to the club’s historical association with the Chelsea Pensioners.
A move which will suit the likes of Michael Ballack, Juliano Belletti, Deco and the rest of the pensioners who are still turning out for the Blues down to a tee.
Gone are those breast plates which adorn the current kit in favour of a simpler style, or ‘retro’ look which is de rigeur at the moment.
SPORTSMAIL RATING: It's Chelsea blue and the red is a nice nod in the direction of the club's history. But Lampard and Terry look very angry in this picture. Are they trying to sell shirts or start a fight? 8/10.
Blue is the colour: The strip that Chelsea fans will be sporting next term - but will they be defending the title in it?
LIVERPOOL
New kit, new sponsor, new players… new manager? This new Liverpool shirt has been designed to match the kit the club wore when they last won the league back in 1990.
A fine idea seeing as they have exhausted every other avenue trying to recapture bygone glory days. They may as well try and design a lucky shirt.
The question is if Rafa Benitez will be around to watch the Red’s gallop around in it next season?
SPORTSMAIL RATING: The round neck looks smart but putting Steven Gerrard's name on the back of the shirt? A little presumptuous, don't you think? 7/10.
Red alert: The new kit is smart but will it help Liverpool challenge for honours?
MANCHESTER UNITED
We need to be careful here as there's no guarantee these shirts are the ones United will be striding out in next season.
What we do know is that United will wear the logo of insurance giants AON after they replaced current sponsors AIG. And rumours abound that they will be unveiling a new white away kit.
Supporters will discover whether these really are the new designs when the club plays on their pre-season tour to the United States in July.
SPORTSMAIL RATING: Fake or not - we like these shirts. No great tracks of black across the home kit - a retro design which harps back to the glory years of 1980-81 when they Reds won, erm, nothing. 7/10.
Faking it? The jury's out on whether these kits are real - but we still like them
STOKE CITY
Captain's job: Faye sports the Potters' new strip
The new kit is launched in tandem with the Potters' deal with Adidas.
The Club's new kit and training wear will carry the famous adidas 'Three Stripes' after City sealed the biggest kit partnership deal in their history.
Chief Executive Tony Scholes said: 'Twelve of the 32 countries at this summer's World Cup Finals will be wearing adidas kit and many of the top clubs in Europe, including Real Madrid, AC Milan, Chelsea, Liverpool and Bayern Munich.'
So that's settled that, then. Stoke for the title next season.
Available to pre-order now from the club's website.
SPORTSMAIL RATING: Hardly sets the pulses racing and word is the stripes have been removed from the back. 5/10
TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR
Leaked images of this shirt surfaced a number of weeks ago and we were inclined to dismiss them as fakes.
But new snaps featuring a number of the current squad wearing them on the White Hart Lane turf leads us to believe they may be real.
Back to the future: Tottenham's retro kit for next season
With a nod to the Admiral and Le Coq Sportif kits the Lilywhites wore in the 1970s and 1980s - this new jersey is all-out retro.
The shirt front is currently blank as the club's deal with online gambling company Mansion expires in June and a new sponsor is yet to be secured.
SPORTSMAIL RATING: On first sight, this looks really good. The only problem could be a sponsors logo spoiling the smart retro feel. 8/10
WOLVES
New to the pack: Wolves' new strip - as sported by Adlene Guedioura
It's the pretty gold shirt with black collar we expect from a Wolves kit - but they've incorporated some of that fancy technology which helps players so much.
The club's website tells us that this new kit is 'made from a textured performance fabric incorporating innovative Cool Dry technology that absorbs moisture away from the skin to ensure an improved comfort and fit.'
Nice.
Unveiled for the last game of the season - the 2-1 win over Sunderland - the supporters are already big fans.
And in a move many clubs have taken recently - this jersey has been designed with a retro feel to it
SPORTSMAIL RATING: Tidy and already very popular with the fans. Who are we to argue? 6/10
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Cannot really see Arsenal's.
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Really like to see the done product of Spurs & Man Utd
Man Utd jersey looks weird with the Aon sponser.
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I really wish to see liverpool in it! (But the chest area seems weird right? :S)
i like the quote though..
"The round neck looks smart but putting Steven Gerrard's name on the back of the shirt? A little presumptuous, don't you think?" -
Hi guys
You actually can design you own t-shirt for the favourite team for the upcoming season.
