The idea for this project came from my good friend, Rich Johnson. Shortly after the end of The 50 Greatest Football Shirts Ever, a series of blog posts researched, written and illustrated as a foursome with John Devlin and Jay from DesignFootball.com, thoughts turned to a follow-on project. Of the many wonderful options suggested by Rich, the one that appealed to me most was that which focused on football shirt templates.
I've always been fascinated by templates and here was an opportunity to look deeper into the myriad designs we've all come to know and love, and find many more waiting to be discovered. I subsequently took on the job of researching as many football shirt templates as I could, a job that was made far easier thanks to Old Football Shirts, John Devlin's True Colours books and Historical Football Kits.
For more than two years, I collated the details of well over 300 templates. It would have been easily possible to find three times that amount if I'd had another four years to devote to the project, but a cut-off point was required. What this project presents is therefore a large yet frustratingly incomplete cross-section of all the templates anyone knows or cares about.
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