The Good, The Bad, The WTF

This week, inexplicably to all our unAmerican readers, we bring you a shirt from Turkey (and, for our true American readers, an apology for the hackiness of the reference). Anyway, what’s done is done, and we’re setting the wayback machine for 1991.

Before we do that, though, let’s look at a recent-ish video of the club in question in action. Well, the club’s fans.

A glorious mess in the corner caused by Galatasaray fans in their derby against the hated Fenerbahce. My favorite part is around :51 where the chair goes flying through the screen.

Enough of the modern stuff, let’s look at what Turkish football looked like in the early ’90s.

Home

Go ahead, click it.  Take it all in.  Notice how the white area in the middle upsets the flow of the lines on the shirt, just like it did before.  Yes, this template has been used before, and it’s just as ugly here.  But you want to know what makes it even worse?  That they used it twice in Turkey.

Away

Yep.  No difference here.  Except there is red where there was yellow and vice versa.  What is really disappointing about this photo is that it doesn’t feature some of the kickass mustaches that the players had at the time.  Still you see the madness of the Umbro design was used on both of the main shirts of that season.

Now, I know you Chelsea fans are feeling left out at this time, saying to yourselves “we had a pretty bad shirt that year too”.  True, I haven’t gotten to that one yet.  But did you know that Galatasaray ripped you off in 1991 as well?  Well, sometimes, you need a third shirt to get away from wearing yellow and red.  Like if you are playing Lens.  Anyway, this is that shirt.

Third

God, that design is hideous.  In fact, these designs are so bad, I can’t even care about the sublimated Umbro-diamond sublimated print.  Okay, I care a little, but not a lot.

Full credit for all pictures goes to this site.  There you can browse through Galatasaray’s look through the years.  And, if you read Turkish, learn something as well.