Ugliest shirts in SPL history

Yeah, I know. It’s an overdone blogging subject, but I am celebrating my triumphant return to the interwebs today and I figured I would go looking for some butt-ugly SPL jerseys from years past. Here’s how I’m scoring them. First, a 1 to 10 of ugly. Pure ugly. Then, I’m deducting a tenth of a point for each year ago the jersey was worn, because let’s face it, a jersey can’t be blamed for being ugly in the eighties. Everything was. So here goes. Let’s limit it to five.

Motherwell 1995-96
Base ugly score: 7 – 1.2 for age = 5.8
Worst quality: The sleeves remind me of a Taco Bell ad.

Dundee United 1993-94 Away
Base ugly score: 8 – 1.4 for age = 6.6
Worst quality: It’s almost sort of cool. But in the end, it’s just too ink-blotty. And I think I see a skull.

Celtic 1991-92 Away
Base ugly score: 9 – 1.6 for age = 7.4
Worst quality: This is not only ugly, but also a terrible bit of marketing. Did Ford really want to advertise how badly its
stock was doing with that graphic? Yikes.

Kilmarnock 1990-91 Home
Base ugly score: 6 – 1.7 for age = 4.3
Worst quality: Is this actually tie-dyed? Seriously, can a Killie fan tell me … is it?

Hibernian 1992-93 Away
Base ugly score: 7 – 1.5 for age = 5.5
Worst quality: Combines the awful color of the Killie shirt and the Tex-Mex sleeves of Motherwell.

So, the Rorschach from Dundee United is just edged out by Celtic’s God-awful Sales-Figure jersey. Thoughts?

Category: Scottish Premier League