Wolves Kit Thread

[Alan]

When you see the likes of Liverpool getting into bed with dodgy partners you can only presume it is a case of take their money upfront and you will do. Not a lot of clubs doing proper checks.

If the money is there, how much do they even care where it comes from?

Recent evidence re: the PIF suggests that they don’t, at all.

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

Eurgh. I’m sick of having shitty companies sponsoring us in some form.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Yep, Goodyear was peak Wolves sponsor I think?

Huge company, looked good on the shirt and sponsored us for ages.

Worst?

Money Shop in terms of who they were, Sporting Bet and Doritos in terms of how they looked?

 

[Langers]

Money Shop, SportingBet, W88, ManBetX all shite sponsors - not the sort of companies that should be allowed on the front of football shirts IMO

The most ill-fitting thing I've ever seen on the front of a shirt was the Bathams logo on an Albion kit. Think it was a one off thing a few years ago. Made me feel ill - like a prime cut of fillet steak served on a bed of cold sick.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Silverbug with their chode logo was poor too. All so Jez could get some IT stuff done on the cheap. 4D chess from our great leader as usual.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Whole thing looks fake

Check any Castore home shirt you own and see how many have a white inner collar at the back of the neck. Clue. None. It’s a fake.

 

[Johnny75]

If you're wondering who 6886 are:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1647932734621327361

This is not a good sleeve sponsor. Also 6686.com is shut down, it's now 68869.com apparently...

That's an interesting article on that thread by Phillipe Auclair. The whole lot is a front and has never been questioned by the PL or government.

That seems odd to me.

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

Sponsors ruin most shirts. I’ve got a version of the white Castore shirt without a sponsor on and it looks so much better.

 

[Lupo]

I don't mid sponsors as long as they're not too garish, I think sponsorless shirts look like there is something missing. As far as ours go Goodyear was obviously the GOAT but I loved W88 too, ignoring the issue of their business but aesthetically it looked great on our shirts - Black 'W' for Wolves and 88 for the Sherpa Van win!

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I'm not sure I buy into that, sponsorship has been ubiquitous for 40 years or more. Plain shirts look odd now, not the other way round.

It's all a bit "shitheap death trap 80s grounds were better than the likes of the Madejski Stadium". No they weren't. There's character and there's plain horrible.

 

[Alan]

I wouldn't go so far as to say that sponsor-less shirts look weird these days (unless it's a case like Chicago this season where the design clearly left space for a sponsor logo that I guess fell through late on), but I agree that unless it's truly awful, I barely even notice them anymore.

United got pelters for the Chevy sponsorship but I don't know how much more design agnostic you can get than a golden cross. Some folks will just always chafe at it; and tbf the companies that get sponsorship deals for shirts can by and large get fucked.

 

[Lupo]

Personally it surprises me how many people get annoyed by the red splash on the Astropay logo as the design is at least predominantly black so its not exactly up there with Doritos and Sporting Bet in terms of garishness

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

I don't mid sponsors as long as they're not too garish, I think sponsorless shirts look like there is something missing. As far as ours go Goodyear was obviously the GOAT but I loved W88 too, ignoring the issue of their business but aesthetically it looked great on our shirts - Black 'W' for Wolves and 88 for the Sherpa Van win!

Fucking tinpot, mickey mouse nonsense...

 

[Kenny]

Fucking tinpot, mickey mouse nonsense...

Spot on comrade

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

I think I like sponsorless shirts because they aren’t the norm. Barcelona’s shirts were good without a sponsor and I liked Forests plain one this season.

I do have a fondness for the classic sponsors from my childhood though due to the nostalgia I guess. Goodyear for us, Sharp for Man Utd, JVC for Arsenal etc…

 

[Lupo]

I think I like sponsorless shirts because they aren’t the norm. Barcelona’s shirts were good without a sponsor and I liked Forests plain one this season.

I do have a fondness for the classic sponsors from my childhood though due to the nostalgia I guess. Goodyear for us, Sharp for Man Utd, JVC for Arsenal etc…

I agree with you about Barca, probably as they resisted having one for so many years after they became the norm. I loved the traditional Barca shirts of the 1980s made by Meyba, no fancy patterns or wonky stripes, just plain red and blue stripes, floppy collar and Barca crest

 

[Alan]

I think I like sponsorless shirts because they aren’t the norm. Barcelona’s shirts were good without a sponsor and I liked Forests plain one this season.

I do have a fondness for the classic sponsors from my childhood though due to the nostalgia I guess. Goodyear for us, Sharp for Man Utd, JVC for Arsenal etc…

Excuse me, Dreamcast is the correct Arsenal choice. I’m not biased.

 

[lemonjelly]

I think I like sponsorless shirts because they aren’t the norm. Barcelona’s shirts were good without a sponsor and I liked Forests plain one this season.

I do have a fondness for the classic sponsors from my childhood though due to the nostalgia I guess. Goodyear for us, Sharp for Man Utd, JVC for Arsenal etc…

you need to sit down and have a really long chat with @Boozad re who are the definitive "classic sponsors". Like you I have intrinsically linked some clubs with some sponsors. Getting to chat with Gav about it blew my mind though. It was a very intense, interesting and fun conversation!

 

[Lupo]

Arsenal - JVC
Man United - Sharp
Liverpool - Crown
Newcastle - Blue Star/Newcy Brown
Villa - Mita Copiers
Spurs - Holsten
Wolves - Goodyear
Everton - NEC
Leicester - Walkers Crisps
Southampton - Draper Tools
Watford - Solvite
Ipswich - Fisons
Bolton - Reebok

 

[Kenny]

Albion - Sandwell Council