Not for the first time in these parts, today presents a diversion into the aesthetics of football & in particular kit design, which is, to be honest, one of the game’s main aspects of appeal: here at TOoT, in common with Jasper Carrott’s friend of legend, we like the colours, & yesterday evening’s televised Europa League Final, contested in Bucharest between Atletico Madrid & Athletic Bilbao, provided a veritable feast, with one of the most perfect pairs of opposing strips I can ever recall witnessing.
A variety of clubs from around the globe have habitually come to be favoured & supported precisely because of the colour combinations they wear, & Atletico Madrid’s red & white striped shirts with blue shorts & red socks are a classic example of this, so it’s always a visual pleasure to see the team in action but it proved to be an extra-special treat when complemented on this auspicious occasion with Bilbao’s lovely 2nd-choice outfit of green & black with red & white trim (their ‘home’ colours are also red & white stripes, matched with black shorts): a quite beautiful spectacle indeed, as might be appreciated from the image from the match below.
Incidentally, the mighty & magnificent Atletico won 3 – 0, with a trio of finely-taken goals fit to grace any game, but of course the result is merely a detail in the context of such aesthetic splendour…!
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