Cult classic, not best seller

Leeds United’s third kit from 2018/19 exists in my mind as the embodiment of an almost perfect era, despite it being worn on the day Pablo Hernandez cried at Brentford. It’s also the evidence I would present in my argument that we should have stuck with Kappa, rather than switching to Adidas just to be fobbed off with templates and cheap materials.

It’s possibly the first and only time ever that a kit announcement was leaked by Football Manager, as the early demo version of the game included the jersey two weeks before it was unveiled publicly. It debuted in a woeful 4-1 loss at West Brom and bowed out with a forgettable 3-2 defeat at Ipswich on the final day, but it’s a shirt that lived a mostly charmed existence.

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