Top 5 Worst Tottenham Kits of all time?
Let’s face it, every club has had some dodgy kits down the years, and Spurs are no different. Tottenham at least never allowed their players to design their own kits like former Mexico goalkeeper Jorge Francisco Campos Navarrete, but over the years, I wish they had. Tottenham’s insistence that every year they release at least 3 different kits for supporters to pay outrageous sums for, has led to designers coming up with some real eyesores in the name of creativity. The most upsetting thing about this article however, is not that these kits were manufactured, but that I owned most of them…
5. Apparently, this ‘gold’ number was harking back to the golden brown colours the clubs wore as their second strip between 1899 and 1901. 
Historically, Tottenham wore a striped gold and brown number against a German XI in January 1901. Well guess what Puma, it isn’t 1901 anymore. I don’t know what passes as a nice shirt in Nuremberg or wherever your designers reside these days, but no more muddy brown shirts please. Thanks.
4. The worst thing about this shirt, was that we actually had it as our third kit for 3 years. Really Le Coq Sportif is responsible for the 
colour, as despite having absolutely nothing to do with the clubs heritage, between 1982 and 1986 Le Coq Sportif released three sky blue kits. However, Umbro really took liberties when they designed this abomination in 1991. The worst thing about the kit is the fact that it has SPURS dripping down the front, just in case the fans forgot who they were watching, or the players needed prompting when picking out a pass. Awful kit.
3. As modelled by the lovely Espen Baardsen, this goal keeper’s kit was just one in a long line that could have made this list. Ian Walker wearing a bright green number also springs to mind, but there are too many to recall here, so let’s focus on this one for now.
Why orange? That’s all I really want to know. Since when has orange been part of the clubs heritage, spliced with sky blue and yellow? Spurs conceded 56 goals the season the Ian Walker and Espen Baardsen wore this in the 1997/98 season, so it obviously wasn’t putting off the opposition. In short, one of the worst goalkeeping jerseys with had, but to be fair, there’ve been a few.
2. Pony has a lot to answer for, but their most hideous crime was introducing the cult of the purple Tottenham away shirt. In 1995/96, 1998/99 and 2003/04 Tottenham inexplicably decided to opt for purple away shirts. This one, enters the top 5 not only due to it setting the trend, but also because it had that annoying Pony collar that faded if you put it in the wash too often… not that I wore it.
I can’t guarantee it, but it was probably shirts like this that made Sheringham leave. Thanks Pony. I gave you people far too much money.
1. Ok it’s time to get old school… There was a time, believe it or not, when Tottenham were not the best team in the Premier League, and weren’t actually even in the top tier of English football. I’m sorry, but getting relegated is no excuse for this ‘experiment’. Tottenham introduced this shirt in 1977, in time for their season spent outside the top flight in the old Division 2. Tottenham should have been relegated for this shirt alone.
The colour can be described as off-yellow, but in truth, it just looks off. The kit was designed by Admiral, only the second brand to earn the right to design for Tottenham after Umbro. It is not difficult to see why their contract was not renewed. Equipped with matching shorts and socks, this is possibly the worst Tottenham kit of all time…
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The chocolate brown and gold kit shouldn’t be included.
It was a MASSIVE seller, the club actually sold out of the kits and only released some more in the new year to members only which sold out.
They were selling on Ebay at about £100 on average.
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I love the brown kit, number 5!
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Have to disagree with you on the brown kit. I love that shirt! I have a signed on framed on my living room wall right behind me as I type. Infinitely better than this seasons horrible home shirt too!
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The best thing about the brown kit was that it led to the Spurs shop selling a wider range of coloured clothing – not just white – blue – yellow. It was a good thing. The purple one was ok, but as you mention, the quality was poor. I agree 100% with that yellow shirt – looks like a darts player’s shirt. Terrible.
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Pony is a great name for that company
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The reason why the yellow shirt looks like a darts players shirt is because that is not the actual shirt – but a “replica” using an entirely different material. The actual shirt worn is pictured in this Daily Mail article headed “Top 50 football kits of all time” – it’s No. 30. Link below. Part of the legendary Admiral range of the era. Classic shirts. And the brown/gold one was great too, I similarly wanted to own one when I lived abroad but could not order one direct and refused to pay the extortionate amounts on ebay. When I visited the UK some months after it’s release, it was sold out never to be seen again.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1223353/THE-LIST-Top-50-football-kits-time–Nos-30-21.html
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What are you thinking ! The Yellow away kit from the seventies is probably my all time favourite spurs shirt. Brings back great memories, My primary school even used it as our second kit, our first kit was the Arsenal Yellow away kit. (Don’t ask). Myself and fellow spurs fan used to remove said top at half time, just wrong.
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Here’s my top 3 worst kits EVER:
number 3: AwayKit 2009-2010
number 2: 3rdKit 2009-2010
NUMBER 1: HOMEKIT 2009-2010
I pray we get a different kit manufactor next season. This seasons kit SUCKS. BUT I have all three, ’cause I love my Spurs (I just don’t wear them, I just wear the preavious seasons….
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What about the horrible 1987 tyre across the front effort
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Our current home kit is the worst IMO
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