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19th Jun 2016

Switzerland’s shirts were ripping like wet paper against France

Tear-able quality

Kevin Beirne

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.

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.

https://twitter.com/iAbhijithA/status/744620019087138816