If you read JOE regularly, you’ll know that we’re big fans of footballing fashion.
We look forward to every new season for a whole number of reasons, but we’d be lying if we said the new kits didn’t make up at least some of our excitement.
Switzerland took on France in the final Group A game of Euro 2016 on Sunday night – although many of us were annoyed we had to wait until 8pm for some football.
We have been pleasantly surprised to see the Swiss shirts looking much better in real life than they did before the tournament, where we ranked them among the worst kits at Euro 2016.
And we were all ready to take some humble pie until this happened.
https://twitter.com/jnpaquet/status/744609087493660673
No we’ve never made a kit ourselves, but we would think that one of the main things you’d need from pretty much any piece of clothing is for it to not rip easily.
Maybe Mehmedi just picked up the one dodgy shirt before running out to represent his country at a major international tournament we thought, but then it happened again to Arsenal new boy Granit Xhaka.
Photo: Granit Xhaka with his ripped shirt. #afc pic.twitter.com/HKVi2azcwY
— afcstuff (@afcstuff) June 19, 2016
And we weren’t the only ones to be slightly baffled by this trend, as Twitter users tried to figure out just what those Swiss kits were made of.
that's some quality jersey for Swiss hahaha
— Sarendra Don (@saren_96) June 19, 2016
Swiss team's jersey seems to be made out of paper. #EURO2016
— Hussain Musthaq (@hmusthaq) June 19, 2016
I had no clue self-immolative polymers had made it to market. It seems the Swiss Nati jersey are made out of them!!!
— Yoan C. Simon (@YoanCSimon) June 19, 2016
The person that designed this swiss jersey was either high or maybe the french players developed claws over night
— The Retired One (@Prince__KO) June 19, 2016
https://twitter.com/iAbhijithA/status/744620019087138816
Dad: "more holes in their shirts than in Swiss cheese" mmmm classic dad joke that 👌
— Izzie (@izziesmith15) June 19, 2016
