Premier League club forced to make unusual ‘eyesore’ kit clash as fans blast ‘dreadful’ mismatch
CRYSTAL PALACE were forced to wear a combination of their kits during their match against Chelsea to avoid a kit clash.
And those watching on from home weren’t best pleased with the way the Eagles players looked as a result.
With Palace travelling to Stamford Bridge they had to wear their away kit in order to not have the dark blue portion of their home shirts clash with Chelsea’s home kit.
Their away kit normally features a predominantly white shirt with light blue shorts and white socks.
But even that was too much of a clash according to the Premier League‘s software that decides each team’s kits.
Instead Palace had to wear their dark blue home kit socks instead of the white away socks so that they would differ from the white socks sported by the Chelsea team on the night.
The confusing and seemingly unnecessary change to the strips left fans blasting the clash on social media.
One wrote: “That kit and socks combo is dreadful omg.”
Another added: “Palace wearing home socks with the away strip is nasty work.”
A third chimed in writing: “Kit looks dreadful with those socks!”
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While a fourth said that Palace should have just worn their black third kit, posting: “Surely just their black kit or at least the shorts and socks would have been less of an eye sore.”
Normal regulations impose strict kit rules to prevent match officials, spectators or TV viewers being confused.
But teams can only wear the same colour shorts or socks as each other if there is “sufficient contrast” across the strips.
The decision is made by Premier League software that ensures the kits selected for any match are “identifiably different colours” and also to determine the “best possible kit combination” for any match.
Arsenal’s match against Luton saw both sides wearing black shorts due to the nature of their vastly different orange and yellow shirts in the game.