Posted on Wednesday, 15th February 2012 by Tony Merakli
Could this possibly be Arsenal’s new home strip and away shirt for the 2012/13 season?
Nike have decided to produce this simple looking design, one, which many will agree, replicates that of the Egyptian national strip.
The body of the shirt remains red and white, but features a charcoal black collar and two hoops (red and black) around the sleeve. The shorts are white and instead of the socks being completely red or white, as they have been for years, they are black!
I have to say that it looks more like a bloody United kit than an Arsenal one!
As for the Away jersey, well it looks to me like a run down, washed up Dennis the Menace outfit. It features maroon and black hoops all the way down the shirt, and to some degree imitates our third kit of 2005.
I stumbled across the image of the home kit after being sent to me via Twitter, but I think the shirt was first uploaded by Arsenal Insider, who are adamant that this will be our new home shirt. While I came across the away kit on Straight Talking Gooners, who say the image was first released by a man named ‘Highbury Harold’.
In my opinion, the home kit does look pretty legit and authentic, as it is modelled with Barcelona’s and Manchester United’s possible kits for the upcoming season in Nike Town.
Although it remains uncertain what our away shirt will actually look next season, I wouldn’t be surprised if the club go ahead with this one – from our navy and light blue horse jockey kit this season, to an old-looking, worn out Dennis the Menace kit next season.
Don’t know why I’m complaining, I’ll more than likely purchase both of them!
What do you guys make of the possible home kit and away shirt for next season?
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February 15th, 2012 at 4:25 pm
It looks like they got the arsenal and man u socks mixed up becouse if you look at the man u socks they have two hoops on
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February 15th, 2012 at 5:43 pm
Good spot, but its a different shade of red to the Arsenal top, no?
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February 15th, 2012 at 4:52 pm
Its okay @homekit but the away jersey it self is rather demoralizing..
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February 15th, 2012 at 5:00 pm
Too right Henry. I guess the Nike execs have the same deal with manu as their Sky counterparts. Why else are we stuck with this poor man`s manu kit? My God! they`ll have refs. doing them favours next
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February 15th, 2012 at 5:02 pm
cant stand the socks collar and blue stripe on sleeve, just leave it red and white people will still buy because its our tradition
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February 15th, 2012 at 5:15 pm
I think you will find it’s blue not black paying tribute to the Royal Arsenal, hence red White and blue. I remember a kit in I think in the sixties of red and White shirt, White shorts and White socks with blue hoops all the way up.
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February 15th, 2012 at 5:18 pm
I’m sure those kits ain’t right. The socks are all totally wrong.
The backdrop look like a crappy depot store in china, prob fake efforts.
Regardless, if that really is the Arsenal home shirt with french flags for sleeves then they have really really poor ideas!
The stripy top could be a training top… don’t believe it for a second to be official though.
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February 15th, 2012 at 5:28 pm
just because some dope dressed some mannequins in a shop means we have black socks now? give me a break
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February 15th, 2012 at 5:38 pm
Perhaps I knocked that kit unfairly. It is not the worst kit that has ever been foisted on a destitute team. During the war kit was unobtainable and my village under 11 captain`s mother knitted a set of jerseys for the new season – honest to God – unfortunately wool was also scarce but donated by kind villagers. The general theme was a sort of red but I always felt it was unwise to try for green numbers. That was worse than….well…maybe….?
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February 15th, 2012 at 6:41 pm
I kind of like the home shirt, but they socks are hideous! They don’t match up at all! Away kit is just boring old crap, as we’ve seen for the last god knows how many seasons!
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February 15th, 2012 at 6:59 pm
Oh please no! We can’t let our players go out in public dresed like that.
Makes me yearn for the good old Green and navy kit of old.
Hopefully a stitch up.
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February 15th, 2012 at 7:14 pm
SURELY that cannot be our new home kit, why on earth would we have any black on it at all? Does anyone know if an old old old shirt once had black on it like this? If not, this cannot be real. It looks like someone has photoshopped over this seasons kit. The socks are totally black, they would AT LEAST have a swoosh on the front, same goes for the other two kits. Also, the boots are the old Total 90′s from Nike, suggesting this could an old photo, like I said… photoshopped. As for the away shirt it is definitely photoshopped, the stripes don’t correlate with the creases on the shirt, at all for starters, poor photoshopping!
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February 15th, 2012 at 7:27 pm
AM A REAL FAN OF ARSENAL
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February 15th, 2012 at 7:28 pm
I HOPE THIS KIT WILL BRING US LUCK AND WIN TROPHIES
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February 16th, 2012 at 1:08 am
Nice, got a French flag on the sleeves…
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February 16th, 2012 at 10:57 am
The first year chapman introduced the white sleeves the kit had dark blue and white socks, quite where their going with the blue sleeves is pretty horrendous though, ugly as …… If real.
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February 16th, 2012 at 12:04 pm
we had a third kit in 05? this looks similar to the one in o7/08
and why is stan making us go all patriotic with this red white and (very,very dark) blue?
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April 19th, 2012 at 6:36 pm
when will the new kit b available to purchase?
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