Kits and misses: The best and worst PL shirts of the 90s

The Premier League has seen some brilliant kits over the years and some designs that were an affront to fashion. 

This was especially true during the 90s, when sportswear manufacturers produced many stone cold classics, alongside some experimental numbers that were painful to look at. 

Ahead of the new season, we take a look back at the five best Premier League kits and five that are best forgotten about. 

The five best 90s Premier League kits

Here are our five favourite Premier League kits of the 90s. 

5. Blackburn (1992-93 home)

Blackburn entered the debut Premier League season in style, with Asics ensuring that Kenny Dalglish's expensively assembled squad looked a million dollars. 

4. Arsenal (1997-98 away)

Away kits are often an excuse for designers to become over-experimental with their felt tips. Nike kept to Arsenal's traditional change colours with great results in this late-90s number. 

3. Crystal Palace (1997-98 home)

A faithful rendition of a classic design, elevated by the three stripes on the arm and a sponsor logo not seen since it was plastered all over Piccadilly Circus. 

2. West Ham (1993-94 away)

It was a risk to choose a kit manufacturer with this name when your fanbase are fluent in Cockney rhyming slang, but Pony knocked it out of Upton Park with this effort. 

1. Newcastle (1995-96 home)

Newcastle may have fallen short of winning the Premier League title in 1995-96 but they at least looked the business with a rare example of a kit that is actually elevated by a sponsorship. 

Five worst 90s Premier League kits

We have saved the worst for last, with the five most ill-conceived Premier League kits of the 90s. 

5. Oldham (1992-93 third)

Oldham decided to enter the Premier League with a third kit that was a geometric disaster in varying shades of lurid green. 

4. Middlesbrough (1996-97 away)

Someone designing the kits at the Italian brand Errea must have got a Spirograph for Christmas in 1996, producing a cosmic pattern that fitted in nicely with the 1990s' Magic Eye craze. 

3. Manchester United (1992-93 away)

Just in case you failed to spot the Manchester United badge on this shirt, Umbro helpfully printed another, much bigger one on the Red Devils' away kit. 

2. Chelsea (1994-95 away)

It was tempting to include United's grey away kit which saw the players claim that they could not see each other. Yet Chelsea's version, with added orange, was even worse. 

1. Nottingham Forest (1995-96 away)

Another kit where Umbro decided to add extra large depictions of the club badge, this time on both shoulders. All presented in spidery handwriting belonging to a 11-year-old using their first fountain pen.