Burnley Puma Home Shirt 2011/12
Championship side Burnley have launched their new 2011/12 home kit manufactured by Puma.
The new home shirt features a claret shirt with a light blue v-neck and sleeves with claret sleeve hems. The shirt also features two stripes on the shoulders to which the club have also released some details on them which you can read about below. The shirt is complemented with white shorts with claret detail. Fun88, club sponsor, has its logo dominating the front of the shirt.
Puma’s Two Stripes
Puma’s two stripes are inspired by a famous story involving Johan Cruyff, in which during the 1974 World Cup Final, he removed the third stripe from his supplied Netherlands shirt, out of respect and loyalty to his boot sponsor.
Cruyff refused to be associated with Puma’s major competitor and as his country’s captain, talisman and one of the most gifted and inspirational footballers of all time, was relatively confident he wouldn’t be dropped by the team for his actions!
This single show of loyalty is something Puma believe all Burnley fans can relate to, and as such, the two stripes embody and exemplify something far more than a simple design feature.
The ‘King’ name derives from the most iconic football boot associated with Puma’s long football heritage.
The original King boot was worn by Eusebio in 1968 after his heroics as the ‘King of Wembley’ in the World Cup in 1966.
Source (Club Official Website)
classic look i like it .
Well done puma. Doesn’t look cheap and I quite like the design. Clever with the two stripes and the color looks nice in blue to contrast against the claret body. Very nice.
Ahhh **** “collar** in blue”
Really nice kit,well done Puma.
A well designed simple shirt that looks the part.
This would have Papa Adi Dassler turning in his grave. Also, although the Cruyff 2 stripe story is well reported, I don’t believe for a minute that this is the reason for it on this shirt. There will be thousands of market made trainers up and down the country preparing to sue over this shirt. Check out Mercury trainers and Nicks to see what I mean.
“…out of respect and loyalty to his boot sponsor.” If a player did the same thing today he would be labelled a corporate *****. Nice shirt but a bit too retro with the collars and stripes.
don’t really like it the stripes are in the wrong place should be down the sleeves
Never before have I seen such a detailed reason for adding 2 stripes… and it isn’t even to do with Burnley!
nice kit burnley !
The player in the photograph doesn’t look too happy to be there.
Inches short of a master-piece. Genius piece of “subtle” branding. Well said Claret, in regards to Cruyff.
So exactly how many teams are gonna be using this template?
I agree with what Kurt says