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Ranking every Premier League team’s new kits

By Kameron Duncan

PRESTON, ENGLAND - JULY 21: Declan Rice of West Ham United during the Pre-Season Friendly between Preston North End and West Ham United at Deepdale on July 21, 2018 in Preston, England. (Photo b Lynne Cameron/Getty Images)
PRESTON, ENGLAND - JULY 21: Declan Rice of West Ham United during the Pre-Season Friendly between Preston North End and West Ham United at Deepdale on July 21, 2018 in Preston, England. (Photo b Lynne Cameron/Getty Images) /
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Crystal Palace’s Joel Ward during a pre season friendly match at Lamex Stadium, Stevenage (Photo by Nick Potts/PA Images via Getty Images)
Crystal Palace’s Joel Ward during a pre season friendly match at Lamex Stadium, Stevenage (Photo by Nick Potts/PA Images via Getty Images) /

16. Crystal Palace

Palace are another team whose kits suffer from a bad sponsorship by a betting company. ManBetX’s font and the massive logo make for a gaudy addition to a kit that already has a lot going on. Vertical (and in the case of the away kit, diagonal) stripes are enough to be visually captivating, and the ManBetX logo haphazardly slapped on top of all of it is definitely not the greatest of options.

Three primary colors at the same time is never a great look, and Palace’s home kits are yet again an example of that. Replacing the yellow with either white or black would make for a much better shirt, and also has the added benefit of not making the players look like a team of traveling, soccer-playing clowns. Palace won seven games at home with essentially the same color scheme a season ago, so perhaps more of the same is in order this time around.

The away kit, a white number with a diagonal red and blue stripe down the front, is far more pleasing to the eye. According to the club, it’s apparently a take on their away kit from the 1978-79 season. They were promoted into the first division thanks to their play that season. The Palace squad of 2018-19 will want to play like that one did away from Selhurst Park, as they only won four away games last season.

Puma take over for Macron this year, and while they generally make good kits (Arsenal, Dortmund, Italy’s national team), this year’s Palace primary jersey is a rare misstep.