In the last 20 minutes Twitter’s Leon Hyde (@djleon1983) has released a number of pictures displaying our newly designed Adidas kits for next season. The quality isn’t great because the kits are yet to be officially released, but you should be able to get a good enough idea.

This is only going to be a brief post, but my first impressions are very very good. For the first time in years it appears that the club have taken a bit of a risk regarding our clothing.

What’s more, West Ham have seemingly decided to release a third kit for the 2013/14, as can be seen in the bottom left picture.

The Alpari and Adidas combination looks signficantly slicker than our previous Macron/Sbobet pairing, and are certainly more eye-catching.

I’m personally a huge fan of the oversized collar featured on the home shirt, not least so that some of our more flamboyant players can go for the ‘Cantona look’. It would appear that Vaz Te is already testing this one out.

The away shirt, as expected, follows a white scheme with lines running down the centre. It’s not quite what I was anticipating, but I still think it looks like a very solid kit. Hopefully the players respond more positively to it that last years dark blue horror show.

For the fist time I can remember the club have also introduced third kits. It’s not quite clear whether this is the black/claret/blue shirt pictured below, but various sources have suggested that this is the case. I think I need to see the shorts to go with it before I make my mind up on this one, but early indications are positive.

Finally, Jussi’s keeper kits appear to be fairly standard. It’s usually considered that the more garish the better as it’s supposedly meant to distract strikers bearing down on goal.

Overall I think this is a huge improvement in recent years. The kits are stylish and much better fitting (as it appears) than the Macron shirts.

Should we make anything of the players modelling them? Let’s wait and see.

Liam Spencer