Their Home Kit Is Blue And So Is Their Away Kit. That's Weird.

If you think Chelsea's new musculature'd home jersey is ugly you will most likely feel the same way about their new away kit. It looks a shirt worn by a kid with a hyper safety conscious mom. You know, the type of mom who affixes reflective strips to all her child's shirts, jackets and pants. Disturbingly, it also looks like something PM Dawn or one of his back-up dancers might wear (stop pretending you don't know who PM Dawn is...set adrift on memory bliss...). I blame Adidas.

Did Marseille Source Their New Away Kit From An Ebay Retailer In Thailand?

Finishing in second place was unfortunate, but having to play in the above away kit next year, will be tragic. The white O.M. kit is consistently one of the best looking uniforms in all of football but lately their away kit has betrayed that legacy. Last year it was an azur blue top with an argyle pattern down the front. It was despicable. It looked like a golf shirt from the LPGA. The only team in football that should be allowed to sport an Argyle pattern on their kit should should be Plymouth Argyle FC, but even then its still a bit tricky.

So this year to make up for last years away-kit blunder they have gone in a completely different direction. It appears that the design team has chosen to wrap the Marseille-blue top with a large pattern filled M (from the Marseille crest) that has been turned on its side. It is quite strange and resembles a fake O.M. jersey my parents bought for me a few years back from a flea market on La Canabiere.

In the last 10-15 years Marseille and Adidas have released some spectacular kits but maybe it is time to shuffle the deck. I would love to see what Umbro could do with the Marseille white and blue, especially if they were to channel the new England kit design. The result could be something really classy. We will see.