The Euro 2024 England kit is an instant classic. How does it rank alongside all England's major tournament home shirts of the 21st century?
Nike have unveiled England’s new kits for Euro 2024. We’re still on the fence about the away kit, which has some nice bits but is also not red like it should be and from the pictures we’ve seen maybe not even blue, the only other even vaguely acceptable choice? Controversial.
It would have been a worse shirt, but at least there’d have been an honesty to it. “We think blue sleeves are good, so we’ve given you properly blue sleeves.” Not this ‘ice blue’ nonsense. Fitting really that the ice blue got knocked out by Iceland, when you think about it. The very similar shirt Umbro released for the Women’s World Cup the following year was no less lazy, but did have the Umbro badge in blue and looked far better for this minor but vital tweak.There is a strong case that sky blue belongs only on an England goalkeeper or third shirt, but there is precedent from Euro 96 and we’re happy to allow it. But only if used judiciously and carefully. Had that light blue been restricted to the sleeve cuffs, all would be well.
It’s okay, this one. Bit of asymmetry is always a gamble on a football shirt but a welcome one and in all our kit rankings we will generally come down harsher on kits that are too plain rather than those that are too busy. We have slightly different feelings about national team home shirts in this regard, with purity given greater weight, but a stylised nod to the country’s literal flag cannot be inherently a bad thing unless you’ve got 15 of them on your house and four on your car.
But the stacking of England badge on top of Nike badge on top of shirt number looks odder and odder the more we look at it. We can’t remember being this bothered by that at the time, and now we’re judging ourselves quite harshly because now it just looks seriously amiss.A bold and risky triumph, that takes just enough of a gamble to stand out but knows to play safe with the rest of the design having made its point.
It occurs to us that this might be the definitive guide to a proper good England shirt. It needs to have enough navy to look like it might be a Spurs shirt, enough red to not look like a Spurs shirt, but not so much red that it looks like a Bolton shirt. There you go, Nike. There’s your blueprint for the rest of time. Invoice enclosed etc.
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