Several fans are mocking Manchester United’s new home kit for the 2019/20 season – with two mini-blunders by the club being pointed out on Twitter.
The Red Devils’ stylish new home strip pays homage to the remarkable 1998/99 season in which they won the treble, with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer scoring in stoppage time in the Champions League final win over Bayern Munich to wrap up the club’s third trophy of that historic campaign.
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The new Man Utd shirts have ’90+3′ on the sleeve in reference to that big goal, but there are two slight gaffes here by the club.
Firstly, as many are pointing out, United might have done better to release this kit for last season, which would’ve been the 20-year anniversary of their treble success.
As well as that, MUFC were actually playing in the Champions League last season, whereas in 2019/20 they’ll have to make do with Europa League football after finishing sixth in the Premier League.
Playing in the Europa with a shirt commemorating a Champions League win certainly seems a bit silly, and it’s no surprise that plenty of fans are ripping into United on social media right now…
https://twitter.com/iamsup28/status/1128940806260183045
United release a treble winning inspired kit when they play Europa League season next year. ??????
— Garehh (@Garehh_) May 16, 2019
I’m really confused by this, surely you do a kit that honours the 98/99 season in the 18/19 season. . .? https://t.co/VFrsMAWtya
— Ben Price (@thebenprice) May 16, 2019
https://twitter.com/jasonpettigrove/status/1128961013263605762
https://twitter.com/NavBhogal_/status/1128953311346999296
United honoring the Champions league season, whilst they’re playing the Europa league. Sigh…
— Pranava (@RedGeneral18) May 16, 2019
kit looks nice but it makes absolutely nonsense to commemorate the 98/99 season during the 19/20 season. Should've been this year's kit. Also commemorating winning everything when now we can't even win a header in the box ?. https://t.co/GJheCtsiff
— – (@gheritaaa) May 16, 2019
https://twitter.com/mattmellor80/status/1128963450615607296
We are celebrating 99 ucl when we will be wearing this kit in Europa next season? ?
— Chaos_ (@Elphie_KE) May 16, 2019
Not on board with this kit featuring the mins we won the 99 CL in. About time we stop living in the past and marketing past successes cos theres no current ones. Were not even in the CL next season yet our kit pays homage to it. It's a joke. Other than that quite like the shirt
— Kirsto7 (@kirstomufc7) May 16, 2019
https://twitter.com/cozbo77/status/1128957759200927744
So many awful things with that new Man United kit. Firstly, and most obviously, commemorating something 21 years ago, surely it should have been last season's kit? Secondly, the purple goalkeeper shirt supposedly refers to the one Schmeichel wore that season – didn't happen ??????
— Steve Grant (@SteveGrant1983) May 16, 2019