We Debate The Greatest RETRO Football Kits Of All Time - “ I Remember CRYING Over That Shirt...”

On this week’s episode of That Peter Crouch Podcast, Pete, Sids and Chris dive headfirst into one of football’s most nostalgic — and surprisingly controversial — topics: kits. From childhood shirt disasters and knock-off classics to the shirts that made entire generations fall in love with the game, the lads break down what makes a kit truly iconic.

Crouchy shares first-hand memories of his earliest football strips (including one that didn’t survive warm-ups), while the boys debate whether people genuinely look better in football shirts, which kits should never make a comeback, and where wearing a jersey in public officially becomes unacceptable behaviour.

There’s also chat about vintage gold, England shirts in everyday life, the unspoken rules footballers live by, and a reminder that some fashion trends really were best left in the past. Plus, a detour into Mila Kunis, Watford shirts, and why manifesting football dreams might actually work…

Let us know in the comments: What’s the greatest football kit of all time — and would you wear it on a night out?

00:00 – Subscribe plea and opening chaos

01:10 – Birthday chat and unexpected messages

03:05 – “HBD” texts and why the game’s gone

04:00 – Another Watford manager sacked

05:00 – Could the podcast actually manage Watford?

06:30 – Training with Macclesfield and FA Cup buzz

07:55 – Sponsoring walk-out jackets on live TV

09:10 – The Mila Kunis interview resurfaces

10:40 – Giving Ashton Kutcher a Watford shirt

12:50 – Are people hotter in football kits?

16:00 – First ever football kits (and ruining them)

18:45 – Knock-off shirts and iron-on badges

21:30 – Being “given” better kits as a kid

24:00 – Arsenal schoolboy days and iconic kits

26:10 – Chelsea kits everyone wanted

28:30 – The worst kits of the 90s

31:00 – Wearing football shirts on a night out

33:20 – Vintage kits as fashion statements

35:45 – Iconic England kits and forgotten classics

38:10 – Can footballers wear kits casually?

41:00 – Penalty heartbreak memories and iconic shirts

44:10 – Legendary teams making kits iconic

47:00 – Should England ever have a shirt sponsor?

50:00 – Injury-time chaos and modern football debates

53:30 – Extra time, late goals and “Fergie time”

56:30 – Weekend results and prediction league drama

59:30 – Messages and closing banter

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