The 270th stage of the Kit of the Week (KOTW) challenge saw another win for fayed, as well as a fantastic selection of HNK Rijeka designs.

The Croatian side were spoilt for choice, should they have elected to engage with any of the designers, as the standard was particularly high.

Some weeks the Crest Redesign Competition Weekly (CRCW) is about huge teams, others minnows; we’ll leave you to decide which category stage 321 - cue Ted Rogers hand gesture* - falls into.

Accra’s Hearts of Oak are certainly big in Ghana. They have a barrowful of domestic titles and even one CAF Champions League win to their name, but they’re far from a household name internationally and that adds a little intrigue to a CRCW stage.

All the Kit of the Week challenge stages are fun, some are more impressive than others, and some - like the Palmeiras stage - are so undeniably spectacular that we could talk about them for months after they’ve closed.

And here we are. We shouldn’t be surprised that the Brazilian side with the Italian origins got DF members excited, as big a club as they are, but we couldn’t have predicted the brilliance that was to ensue once they were announced as the fantasy client.

Some teams are chosen for the Crest Redesign Competition Weekly (CRCW) because of their standing in world football, some because, frankly, their club badge is abysmal, and then some are chosen - one is chosen - because they’re named after Thor and their identity has Thor’s hammer front and centre.

Iceland’s Íþróttafélagið Þór, or Thór Akureyri, aren’t known for their on-pitch exploits. As we say, Thor’s hammer, innit. And the members that got involved certainly enjoyed themselves.

Whenever an African side pops up in the Kit of the Week (KOTW) challenge, we know we’re in for a treat, and that’s how it was in the Mamelodi Sundowns stage.

The DStv Premiership champions (it’s been a while since they were last not champions of South Africa) often have bold designs and that stereotype of football in the Mother Continent also applies to so many of our entries.

Super League Greece side Aris Thessaloniki FC (or Aris FC, or AFC, or Aris, or ΠΑΕ Άρης), from Thessaloniki (or Thessalonica, or Saloniki, or Salonika, or Salonica, or Θεσσαλονίκη) in Macedonia, have a striking identity that makes them ideal for the Crest Redesign Competition Weekly (CRCW).

As it was, there were certainly some themes that repeated in Aris’s stage, with the club of course named after Greek god of war and courage Ares, and he featured in some form on all but one of the entries.