Worst Villa kit?

[Pat McMahon]

Henson kits, home and away. Shit kits, shit football, shit results. I still have nightmares about Blues at home and Charlton away in 1986-7, probably the two worst football days of my life.

[Charlie8182]

The 1999/2000 one by a country mile - utterly terrible kit which looked like Trabzonspor, shame that the one year we got to the FA Cup final, we had that strip.

[MarkM]

Henson kits, home and away. Shit kits, shit football, shit results. I still have nightmares about Blues at home and Charlton away in 1986-7, probably the two worst football days of my life.

agree with that

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Older fans will recall 1969/70 yellow and blue change kit.
Made its first appearance in a home friendly against the Italian U-21s. Everybody thought it was the opposition running onto the pitch and booed.

[class_of_82]

best away shirt has to be the european 81-82 shirt got it framed and signed by whole squad as prezzie from my kids looking at it now as i write this, hairs on back of neck standing up just looking at it. worst away has to be the chequer this season just dont get it. best home for me has to be the 69-70 3rd div one so simple yet so magical aston villa at its finest

[Pat McMahon]

best away shirt has to be the european 81-82 shirt got it framed and signed by whole squad as prezzie from my kids looking at it now as i write this, hairs on back of neck standing up just looking at it. worst away has to be the chequer this season just dont get it. best home for me has to be the 69-70 3rd div one so simple yet so magical aston villa at its finest

Wasn't the 69-70 kit the all claret shirt with light blue shorts in which we were relegated? 3rd division was back to normal with the light blue lion on the shirt too.

[andyaston]

Henson kits, home and away. Shit kits, shit football, shit results. I still have nightmares about Blues at home and Charlton away in 1986-7, probably the two worst football days of my life.

Did it even have a proper badge on it?

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

Older fans will recall 1969/70 yellow and blue change kit.
Made its first appearance in a home friendly against the Italian U-21s. Everybody thought it was the opposition running onto the pitch and booed.

Remember this well Andy. Up the Holte booing them foreign tanned ba**ards!
(Hadn't we just returned from a pre-season tour to Spain?)
Then my mate said: "I think that's Dick Edwards. Have we sold him?"
Pretty sure the players all ran back to the dressing room 2 minutes later and reappeared with the opposition 1 minute before kick off.

The Hensen kits are all really nasty, cheap looking tat.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

Got a version of the 1878-82 black shirt for me and the boy a few a years ago.
Might wear it today!

[NatP]

Away kit - not keen on last seasons green kit but for me the winner again is a kit that sported LDV Vans logo, the blue kit we wore in Gregory's first full season.

I read something about how when we played in UEFA Cup games that season the sponsors logo was just 'LDV', the word 'Vans' had to be removed as was offensive in another European language, any truth in that?

[NatP]

The worst had to be the yellow Hummel one in olearys last season

Ah, I loved that yellow Hummel shirt. I think I am in the minority though. It got a slating in When Saturday Comes recently.

http://www.wsc.co.uk/wsc-daily/1166-september-2013/10231-getting-shirty-aston-villa-away-2005-06

[lovejoy]

Hummel from around 1988, SGT and all that, thin pink stripes.

[dave.woodhall]

Hummel from around 1988, SGT and all that, thin pink stripes.

If I remember right, Sir Graham said when he arrived "We're getting rid of THAT first chance I get."

[cdbearsfan]

Any home kit that doesn't have claret shirt with blue sleeves is joint worst. I think I mainly hate the Merson-era one that was all one colour and managed to achieve the unique double (in modern times) of not having any claret OR any blue on it. They can make the away kit as bad as they like, I don't care (this year's is fantastic though).

That said, we must've worn Small Heath kits on a few occasions so maybe they should count as the worst?

[avfc_1874]

Anytime our away kit is Yellow is a contender.

That silver NTL one we had around 2001 was pretty horrific as well.