The kit parade: Arsenal turn the air blue and Celtic's travesty joins Newcastle, Chelsea, Liverpool,

21 May 2009 09:23
Arsenal have unveiled their away kit for next season and the Gunners will be out to give their Premier League rivals the blues. Midnight blue with a white pin-strip to be precise. Celtic have also unveiled a new away kit sure to make many a Scotsman proud - and anyone with a modicum of taste hurl. You wear it well: Rod Stewart looks as if he's just seen the new Celtic kit The white shirt is accompanied by eye-catching green shorts complete with a fetching tartan pattern. Newcastle have given fans a look at their new home strip for next season, which would look dashing on any Coca-Cola Championship player. The official pictures follow months of leaks, which included the rather disappointing moment when Chelsea's weird panel-design home shirt turned out to be more than an internet viral. A quick trawl of the internet has revealed some leaked pictures of some very suspect kits - and only Liverpool come out unscathed in the style stakes. If the images are to be believed, Manchester United will be playing in a peasant-style lace up number in 2009-10. Manchester City, the nouveau riche pretenders to the crown, appear to have ditched their pale, sky blue shirts - reminiscent of the Lancashire sky - in favour of an Abu Dhabi inspired brighter shade. Here is Sportsmail's run-down of the shirts the big boys could be sporting next season. Arsenal The Gunners' red home shirt will last another season but their yellow away strip has been replaced with this less-than-jazzy number as modelled by Theo Walcott. Trinny & Susannah rating (as imagined by Sportsmail): 6/10. Safe and unspectacular but a bit too much like something you would see on a golf course. Ideal for team bonding sessions over 18 holes. Still, it could have been worse... How it looked: Arsenal in 1982 Celtic Tartan delight: Celtic's new away shirt Celtic stick with their traditional green and white for the latest away kit. Why would you do anything else? But the kit gets a twist with an interesting green tartan trim. The green star above the badge, celebrating the Lisbon Lions' achievement as Britain's first winners' of the European Cup, is more than enough in the way of finishing off the stip. Trinny & Susannah rating: 4/10. Nice clean white shirt, which unfortunately won't look to good with a few pints tipped down the front. Nevertheless tidy, but spoled by some of the most disgusting shorts ever put in front of human eyes. Chelsea I'll be back: Chelsea appear to have turned to Arnie for their new kit Hmmm...does Didier Drogba really need any more excuse to emphasise his muscular physique? The new Chelsea home shirt is embellished with what appear to be 'pec panels', sort of Robocop meets Gladiator sections in the chest area. And a zip, which will make the customary dab of Vicks a little difficult to place. Trinny & Susannah rating: 5/10. Trying too hard is guaranteed failure on the catwalk, sorry, football pitch. Liverpool Got it right: Liverpool's new away kit is leading the fashion stakes Another potential pearler from shirt manufacturers Adidas as Liverpool swaptheir grey away kit for a swish black number with gold features and redpiping. A little like last season's European kit, this black number issure to be popular with Liverpool fans. Trinny & Susannah rating: 8/10. 'Pure class', as Stevie G would say. Manchester City Blue is the colour: Apparently the new Manchester City home shirt The usual sky blue, if the shade is a little more eye-catching (which City hope to be next season), with white on the top of the sleeves. The Etihad Airways logo, appropriately enough the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, is arguably a classier replacement for package holiday company Thomas Cook across the centre of the jersey, while the badge is in traditional position across the left breast after a stint in the middle. Trinny & Susannah rating: 7/10. Interesting navy bars down the side of the shirt, but it works, somehow. Manchester United Surely not: Manchester United could be wearing this at Old Trafford next year Home:I would pay cold, hard cash to see Cristiano Ronaldo trot out of theOld Trafford tunnel is this special ensemble. The potential home kit,admittedly, is better than the monstrous away version (see below, justyou wait), but the retro V-neck, particularly the additional whitetriangle, is still pretty naff. Please, please, let this be Manchester United's home kit next season.... Trinny & Susannah rating: 4/10. Champions of Europe? You won't be champions of your own back yard in this boring design. Fashion faux pas: Manchester United's proposed away kit is awful Away: Isn't this truly wonderful? Wonderful as in the 'I-wouldn't-be-seen-dead-wearing-that' way. The silky white Grandad-style collar with a ridiculous lace up design,the plunging V-neck, the sheer bagginess of the whole thing - WayneRooney would look an absolute beauty in this baby. Coleen would not beamused. Trinny & Susannah rating: 1/10. Awful. Just awful. A charity shop special. Newcastle United Old faithful: The Newcastle strip doesn't exactly change much There seem to be few design dilemmas when it comes to the Newcastle shirt: badge in the middle or not? Thick stripes or thin? Collar or not? The most controversial decision seems to be a big white panel on the back where a number should go, reminiscent of a big white flag. Trinny & Susannah rating: 7/10. The white round collar looks a bit naff, but you can't really go wrong with black and white stripes, unless you're Mike Ashley.

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