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Designer: Samurai
Sponsor: Clever Boxes.com
White shorts and hooped socks, not to mention a flappy collar, give Stanley's new home strip a distinctly retro feel. Despite their name, the kit supplier is a privately-owned English company that supplies a substantial number of rugby clubs with bespoke kits. The away strip is in white and dark grey.
(Arthur Coburn, Colin Russell)
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Designer: Errea
Sponsor: EBB Paper
The addition of gold to the new Errea shirts is gilding the lily of what are otherwise very fine strips. The home outfit recalls those worn by the original Aldershot FC in the Eighties.
The coverage of the launch on the club's website is a triumph of misplaced
market-speak that Alan Partridge would be proud of. Apparently the excitement from...EBB...is fantastic. They are excited of (sic) being part of us and part of something that we can build on. EBB have sponsored the team's shirts on and off since 2006, stepping aside when a better deal has been available.
(Martin Gooday, Chris Heath)
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Designer: Surridge
Sponsor: Pulse
After supply problems last year Barnet have switched to Surridge and have their new kits in place in time for the start of the season. At home they will be in familiar deep amber and black while the smart away kit is trimmed in a novel shade of magenta, possibly a reference to the colours worn by the original Barnet FC in the 1880s. The team wore "special edition" strips during the pre-season games.
(Andrew Mihaleff)
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Designer: Nike
Sponsor: Map Group UK
Although it is good to see City playing once again in stripes, it is a shame they have chosen Nike's new jagged design, which we don't expect will be around for long. The novelty of the "cherry voltage" away kit is rather diminished as Southend unveiled their own version earlier in the summer. Neither set is deemed suitable to wear against teams in red so a plain black strip is also available and was used for the first time against Accrington in August (with claret home shorts).
(Colin Russell, Graham Siddons)
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Designer: Errea
Sponsor: McCarthy Waste Management (Home), ITS Couriers (Away)
The new Rovers home shirt is everything a die-hard supporter could wish for. There are no superfluous design flourishes to detract from the classic quartered design, with a neat blue collar and reversed cuffs. It's such a shame that it is worn with blue shorts, which in my book, never look as good as white with that top. Green and black return (last seen in 2008-09) for the away strip.
Rovers run a lottery for their shirt sponsorship and this season a Bristol waste management company appear on the home top while an Edinburgh-based courier is on the away. ITS' owner, Gary Fyvie Olds, is a Bristolian and lifelong Gashead.
(Andrew Claridge)
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Designer: Tag
Sponsor: Mr Cropper
It is a long time since Albion have worn striped shirts, 15 years in fact, and they have never before turned out in stripes as broad as these. The away kit is unchanged except that the secondary shorts sponsorship is moved to the rear, where it should have been all along.
(Dan Bower)
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Designer: Errea
Sponsor: Mira Showers
The new Cheltenham home strip is in ruby red, the club's original colours, and marks their 125th anniversary. The away strip is unchanged.
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Designer: Puma
Sponsor: Global Freight Solutions
For their first ever season in the Football League, Crawley have dropped their previous supplier, Lotto, in favour of Puma and are wearing variations of their popular King design. The signature double stripe is rendered in white and gold on the home shirt. A new crest has been commissioned and appears for the first time.
(Jordan Knott)
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Designer: Carbrini
Sponsor: Mornflake
Bradford kit supplier ABL get the elbow and Crewe have entered the warm embrace of JD Sports' Carbrini brand this season. The broad shadow stripes give the home shirt a distinctly 1980s feel although the trim is very modern. The club have opted for a simple all-black away strip with just a little red trim.
(Andrew Mihaleff)
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Designer: Vandanel
Sponsor: West & Coe Funeral Directors
The Daggers are wearing a new home strip that is predominantly red with attractive blue and white trim, reversed on the shorts. As usual, their shirt sponsors have tastefully omitted the nature of their business from the logo worn on the shirts although it does appear on advertisements at the club's ground. The away strip is unchanged but is generally worn with green shorts. Apparently the black ones caused players to misplace their passes. Of course they did.
(Ben Palmer)
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Designer: Vandanel
Sponsor: Mems Energy Generation
The Gills have gone for a coordinated wardrobe look with three strips in the same template in blue, black and a very cheeky pink. Although photographs on the club's website appear to show that the blue is a distinctly lighter shade than usual, eye-witness reports confirm it is a conventional mid-blue.
(Chris Matterface, Lee Capeling, Simon Chaplin, Terry Morley)
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Designer: Admiral
Sponsor: Cargill
Hereford have replaced the bright orange away strip worn last season with an all-black affair with narrow red hoops on the shirt, mirroring the home shirt, which is unchanged. Black shorts are worn with both sets but white ones are available when needed.
(Richard Evans)
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Designer: Adidas
Sponsor: Voi Jeans
Macclesfield stick with Adidas and their latest templates. The home strip is all-blue, a style that has frequently turned up in the team's kit history. The reversed seams on the body have three white threads running along them to mirror the Adidas trademark stripes.
White shirts were worn for Macclesfield's final match at Southend because their other choices were both too similar to the home team's navy shirts.
(Alexander Perkin, David Rafelle)
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Designer: Puma
Sponsor: Bench
Smart as it is, I think we're all going to get a little tired of the new Puma King design before the season is finished. Morecambe's away kit does have the spark of originality about it, however.
(Matt Cannon)
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Designer: Errea
Sponsor: Jackson Grundy
Cobblers' supporters chose the new season's strips and opted to revive the claret shirts with white sleeves that were worn when the team played in the First Division in 1965. This smart outfit has always been popular and has been revived many times. Yellow and claret, another popular combination, is reintroduced on the away kit. Last season's change shirts were worn at Aldershot in August.
(Bill Craven)
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Designer: Nike
Sponsor: Bridle
The stripes worn last season did not, apparently, go down very well with supporters so it's back to predominantly yellow tops. The away shirt can be worn with the home shorts and socks if necessary.
(Jim Brown, Graham Barr)
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Designer: Puma
Sponsor: Bond Timber Merchants
Argyle's 125th anniversary has not been a happy one so far. After going into administration in March, the club was relegated with a ten-point penalty and started pre-season with just eleven registered players, who, like the staff, have not received their salaries in full since March. A bid brokered by acting chairman, Peter Ridsdale who joined them as "football consultant" last September eventually fell through. The adminstrators belatedly allowed alternative bids to be considered and in October a consortium led by local hotelier James Brent took over.
The team started the season wearing training kit from Puma's basic catalogue (Powercat 5.10 as it happens) with replacements due to be delivered in September. These were cancelled after the BIL bid collapsed.
(Craig Morris, Jon Rosevear, Bill Craven)
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Designer: Vandanel
Sponsor: Harlequin Property
The new asymmetrical away kit is one of the smarter of the grey outfits to have appeared this year. Black and amber trim is included as a reference to Vale's traditional colours but we are not at all sure about the off-centre collar. The home strip is unchanged.
(Lee Capeling, Martin Gooday)
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Designer: Puma
Sponsor: Parkgate Shopping Centre (H), One Town One Community (A)
Puma's King template is the basis of the Millers' new strips. Both home and away outfits are new this season because of the change of supplier. The logo on the away strip promotes a council initiative to bring people from different ethnic and cultural communities together.
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Designer: Joma
Sponsor: Greenhous
The striped shirts worn in the late-Seventies are fondly remembered at Gay Meadow so it comes as no surprise that fans voted overwhelmingly in favour of their return in a poll last year. Last season's change kit is retained and the blue anniversary strip will have another outing, with blue shorts, at Bradford City. A fourth kit is rumoured for use at Dagenham & Redbridge.
(Matt Cannon, Danny Davies)
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Designer: Nike
Sponsor: Insure And Go
Nike's chevron shirt looks extremely smart in navy and white and, for the first time since the club reverted to navy blue a decade ago, is worn with white shorts and socks. In fact the last time they teamed navy shirts with white shorts was in 1968.
Southend unveiled their new away strip in their final match of last season. White shorts and socks can be worn when necessary. The shirt colour is "cherry voltage" - electric fruit then.
(Dave Hennell)
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Designer: Adidas
Sponsor: Samsung (Home), EA Games FIFA 12 (Away), Sunday People (FA Cup)
Once again Swindon, who were relegated last season, are wearing standard Adidas templates. It seems a little odd
not to choose the same design for home and away strips but perhaps that would be a bit anal.
The FA Cup strip was worn in Swindon's famous third round victory against Wigan Athletic.
(Al Gordon, Neil Rawlings)
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Designer: Vandanel
Sponsor: Spark World
It would be hard to beat the terrific all-yellow strip with gold and blue trim Torquay have worn for the past two seasons but Vandanel have come close with a new strip with vertical blue stripes down the left hand side. The brilliant black change strip with yellow gull-wing motifs is retained from last season. The third strip made several appearances late in the season and is simply a white version of the previous home strip.
(Matt Cannon, Bill Craven, David Watson)
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Special
Designer: Tempest Sports
Sponsor: Sports Interactive (H), Football Manager (A, 3rd)
A mere ten years after the club was formed by supporters infuriated by the announcement that their team would move to Milton Keynes, AFC Wimbledon are in the Football League. Many of their supporters would say they are back in the Football League. The club retain their strips for two seasons so the home and away are unchanged while the new third strip, chosen by supporters, will be kept until 2013. In July the club announced that a special commemorative shirt, based on that worn by the original Wimbledon FC when they were elected to the Football League would be worn in their first match. For copyright reasons, a single blue stripe replaces the three stripes of the Adidas original.
(Mark Randall, James Clyde)
Over the last six season eight of the 12 clubs promoted to League Two from the Conference had never previously played in the Football League. The latest new boys are Crawley Town and AFC Wimbledon, whose elevation completes a ten-year ambition to restore league football to the borough. Members of League Two are constrained to fund their running costs (including players' wages) out of turnover rather than loans.