What a Load of Old Kit

Even the hardest to please Canary fan had precious little to moan about this summer. The club's heading up to the promised land and we all have a renewed sense of realism about the task ahead. It's a hard league to stay in but we've got as good a chance as any of doing it.

So, some fans elected to moan about our lack of early new signings. I expect they were the kids who'd rush through the museum on schooltrips to get to the little shop at the exit "I don't wanna take my time, I just wanna BUY STUFF!" We were making bids and showing players around but it takes two to tango and from all accounts it was the parent clubs of the players we're after that were dragging their feet. Which can only be a good thing really, because if their current clubs were keen to get rid of them as quickly as possible then we'd have to wonder why.

BUT the big news, the number one scandal this summer was...our new kit. Which can't be a bad situation for the club to be in. If the biggest gripe a fanbase has is that the kit is blocky and awkward then you're probably getting quite a lot of the important stuff right. I'm not defending the design of the home kit but I'm no fashion expert either (ask anyone who's ever met me) so it could be all the rage for all I know...and yeah of course I bought it, it's my duty as a fan.

If pushed I'd say I'd prefer simple next time around. Norwich City kits are very much like bananas: "the yellower they are, the better!". This new kit doesn't look quite ripe to me. We should give it a year and hope it gets yellower. I will defend the away shirt all day long. But that "marmite", obsolete, yellow and green deckchair-inspired third kit? Jayzus! Oh and don't get me started on the goalkeepers kits, poor Ruddy and Rudd.

At the end of the day they aren't great designs but football kits are very, VERY temporary these days and even the worst kits look great on a winning team. Cress sandwich anyone?