09-10 Premier League Kits: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly

In a tribute to the Clint Eastwood movie, “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly,” EPL Talk has categorized the new shirts for the 2009-2010 season into three categories. It wasn’t easy. Many of the ones that we would have placed in a mediocre category, if it was available, had to go into “The Good” or “The Bad.” Most of the ones down the middle of the line went into the latter.

Football clubs have transition years where instead of winning trophies, they end up rebuilding and strengthening their squads and preparing for greater success the following season. This, I believe, is what’s happening to the 2009-2010 season of shirt designs for Premier League clubs. There are a few strong ones, but the majority of designs lack imagination, are bereft of new ideas and are just plain awful.

Here are the results:

The Good

Blackburn Rovers home shirt

Chelsea third shirt

Liverpool away shirt

Sunderland home shirt

Burnley home shirt

The Bad:

Arsenal away shirt

Aston Villa away shirt

Chelsea away shirt

Blackburn Rovers away

Sunderland away shirt

West Ham United away shirt

Wigan Athletic home shirt

Burnley away shirt

Fulham home shirt

Manchester City away shirt

Spurs away shirt

The Ugly:

Everton home shirt

Bolton home shirt

Manchester United home shirt

Chelsea home shirt

Stoke City away shirt

Wolves home shirt

Wolves away shirt

Birmingham City away shirt

Spurs home and third shirts

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