Premier League giants Liverpool have done the social media community a great bit of service after their new away shirt for the 2022/23 season was leaked online.
💣💣💣 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: Liverpool 22-23 Away Kit Leaked: https://t.co/R7wwxUyg0I
— Footy Headlines (@Footy_Headlines) August 20, 2021
Thanks to Footyheadlines and @FumlerRawk, the new Reds jersey offers a very unique iridescent design, with this being the first iteration of it seen on a Nike-produced football shirt.
With deep ocean (dark navy green), grey fog, and siren red the three colors of choice across the shirt, the beautiful color combination offers up complexity in the design which should give off the feeling that the top regularly changes colors. The same effect is caused by light diffraction from structures, or from the reflection of thin film on or in solids, with the changing colors seen on bubbles being the best example.
The choice to go with dark green as the shirt’s main color pays an interesting homage to Liverpool and the club’s habit of using green in their change strips as far back as the 1991-92 season.
Science aside, what is even more important is that Nike thought it prudent to right the wrongs perpetrated by Puma after the disastrous release of their new third kit design. With a poor idea at the ready, Puma released third kits for many of the clubs they have a kit deal with including Liverpool rivals Manchester City, AC Milan, Borussia Mönchengladbach, PSV Eindhoven, and Stade Rennais. Their efforts for Olympique Marseille and Valencia were particularly offensive to the eyes as well.
And with social media being the sometimes hilarious medium that it can so often be, Twitter did not fail to deliver a few gems in the process in the wake of the brand release video via Youtube;
Puma kits be like pic.twitter.com/GI17dddvcb
— Football Ramble (@FootballRamble) August 18, 2021
This one being the obvious winner.
So, on behalf of a grateful football Twitter; thank you, Nike. The longer kit manufacturers refuse to peddle shirts that may as well be canaries in a coal mine warning us of the impending doom that is a European Super League, the better we are for it in the end.
