Well the red one anyhow, the black and white is somehow reminiscent of Dundee United from the sixties and that is really not something we want to recall. The red and white, though, now that is a cool design - both modern but with a tip of the hat back to the seventies round collar that graced the shirt that won us the Cup when Eddie Turnbull was boss and Joe Harper was still a boy.
The changes in strips have become more and more frequent with the passing decades, but this is hardly surprising when you consider how much players (and managers) wages have soared in the past twenty years. Clubs need to find income from as many sources as possible and provided that it is available for the start of the summer, there's nothing better than sporting a brand new Aberdeen top on some far flung shore.
Thankfully the AFC output isn't as prolific as some of the English and a couple of the Scottish clubs. There comes a point where it is no longer making ends meet so much as raking in enough to overpay players so as to snuff out any threat of competition from elsewhere. Oh yeah, and to satisfy the "global brand" that some of them think they have.
Don't ask about shorts or socks, this Blog isn't in the market for discussing such fripperies. Must get round to having a go at footwear sometime, there are people that really need to be knocked into line on colour selections.
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