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There’s never a dull moment at Eastlands these days. New players seem to arrive every 5 minutes and the moment they do so, they are fitted up with the latest City gear.

Today is no exception as the City away kit for 2009 / 2010 goes on pre order ahead of the launch on 15th August.

Manchester City away shirt 2009 / 2010

Manchester-City-away-shirt

Speaking about the new kit, designer David Blanch said:

manchester city away shirt 2009 / 2010 All of the kits have a resonance in some way with both the club and the city. The away kit was partly inspired by the Manchester’ Bee’s (a symbol of hard work and used in the city’s coat of arms) industrious connotations and colour symbolism; which for me was power, strength and confidence.

As with the home kit, colour balance is a really important factor. That said the away kit needed to look both bold and imposing. We chose to use the gold from the crest and use it at the shoulders to focus the upper body to open up the chest and define the upper torso.

The rest of it is completely black. In relation to the black, this creates a completely different personality to the home shirt but both speak about the club’s heritage.

Manchester-City-crest

As with the new home shirt, the away version features the brand new club crest which has been re-mastered by the Umbro team. Explaining the process, Blanch said:

manchester city away shirt 2009 / 2010 Every stitch on the crest has been specifically drawn. From the beginning, we knew we wanted to create the best looking City crest ever. The aim was to make the crest look so technically crafted, using the most technical machines available to us but combine that with the sensibility that is associated with craftsmanship.

What we wanted to move away from was making the crest too flat; we needed to breathe life back into the crest and make it really stand out from the shirt.

With the crest, we have embedded it onto the shirt. Each stitch has been carefully considered.

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7 Comments »

  • Conor Says:

    That looks fantastic i will be pre-ordering immediately!!

  • Adam Tosic Says:

    Very nice Umbro

  • adam o donovan Says:

    1st?kit is nice enough nutn special

  • ill-d Says:

    i like it, classy.
    i think umbro is doing much better this year in the jersey design department. going for a more minimal approach, which feels really mature to me instead of wonky and ridiculous like some other kits coming out this year…

  • No-Lano Says:

    Looks pretty smart, but I don’t know why Umbro keep bragging about re-designing crests (like they did with the England one), it’s almost exactly the same! “Carefully considered” stitching does not a “brand new club crest” make.

  • Hugh Says:

    thanks Umbro for producing such shocking shirts for west ham yet produce lovely ones for man city.

  • callum Says:

    ha ha a joke of a kit for a joke of a team 8 fwrds nd cnt win against burnley that is city added up cmon united :DD

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