The Damned Peacocks
Trainspotting
Standing sincere and sullen in the grounds of Harewood House, Archie Gray, Darko Gyabi, Mateo Joseph and Sonny Perkins provided the faces to launch the new away kit back at the beginning of August. The shirt itself was the most explicit advert yet for a return to the club’s peacock motif, one that was more subtly embedded on the front of the home shirt, and subsequently deconstructed and shoved into a psychedelic and unruly paint shaker for the third kit. All three boast an outline of the club’s 1980s peacock badge on the back of the neck.
What actually is the message that is trying to be conveyed through this imagery?
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