![]() Bruce Wayne, this lot certainly were not. We subscribed to the latter, which meant that as Brighton strode onto the Turf Moor pitch for the opening game of the 2002-03 season, the Albion players looked like 11 men who were heading to a fancy dress party in half-arsed Batman costumes. Depending on your viewpoint, the Seagull either looked heavily pregnant or was in fact a bat. The Albion had never had an all black kit before and while black can be smart, it has to be done right.Īnd it certainly is not done right when you decide to plaster the outline of a bloody big Seagull across the chest. ![]() The Centenary Home Shirt was smart and will always remain popular as the Albion lifted two league championships wearing it.īurnley away in 2002 was the first glimpse we got that Knight could go off-piste when it came to Brighton kits. The first shirts at Withdean oozed coolness and are still considered classics 20 years on. Prior to the 2002-03 season, Knight had actually made a decent job at designing kits. With stunning predictability, that meant having to wear a “one-off” white shirt on more than one occasion, as well as being forced into the situation of borrowing Leicester City’s yellow away kit for the trip to the Walkers Stadium in January 2009 because the referee wasn’t happy with Leicester blue taking on Brighton blue. Or in the 2008-09 season when Knight did not foresee a problem with having a blue and white home shit, a yellow and blue away shirt and a light blue third shirt – whilst playing in a division in which 11 other League One sides wore blue. There was the time the 2004-05 shirt turned up in the wrong shade of blue and we spent two seasons looking like a low-budget Argentina tribute side.
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