A couple of weeks ago Tottenham Hotspur announced and released their home kit for the upcoming 2024-25 Premier League season. Today, the club released the away kits and they are exactly what we expected them to be.
The club made the announcement of the light blue, subtly striped away shirts with a clever retro-inspired video that features prominent players from both the men’s and women’s team.
The video features Spurs players in a retro 1980s themed video filmed in a dark wood-paneled house, along with a couple of minor celebrities — YouTuber Danny Aarons and apparently whats-his-name the Guy Who Plays the Trumpet At Home Matches. That makes sense because these new kits are supposed to evoke the classic powder-blue Holsten kits from the mid-1980s, to go along with the home kits which look like Thomson kits from the early 2000s. Nike is just leaning into the nostalgia this season I guess? The video is called That Spurs Show and the nostalgia is supposed to evoke That ‘70s (or ‘90s?) Show but the retro is obviously from the ‘80s but don’t think too hard about that, it’ll break your brain.
Gotta say, while I did not like the weird patterny striping on these kits when they were first released, they’re growing on me. They’ll be paired with a lighter blue shorts and they do look good on the players — they’ll also likely look quite good on the pitch, assuming Spurs actually get to wear them, which considering the history of Spurs away kits may not be that often.