Something new is making its debut today on DesignFootball.com. The kitvote section, with a True Colours feature of the 1992-93 Premier League Home kits.

Illustrated by John Devlin in his trademark style, it’s a collection of designs bound to get the nostalgia juices flowing, with long-missed manufacturers and sponsors as well as wonderful examples of 90s design.

In recent years, Internazionale and Nike have played around with the famous Nerazzurri stripes - presumably in an attempt to justify a new Home shirt release each season - and this prediction of the 2021-22 release indicates that that campaign won’t see an exception.

DF member Corinth has provided impatient kit obsessives with an idea of what the 2020-21 AC Milan Puma Home shirt will look like.

Based on leaked information garnered, the design takes a structural template seen in very recent Puma releases, and adds to it a barcode-styled pattern similar to the current West Bromwich Albion throwback shirts.

The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) launched a range of brand-new logomarks and visual identities for its major national team tournaments - the AFC Asian Qualifiers, AFC Asian Cup, AFC Women’s Asian Cup, AFC U23 Asian Cup, and the hugely popular annual club competitions - the AFC Champions League and AFC Cup.

The new look and feel will be prominently featured across all fan focused touch-points with the AFC competitions in the coming years, from the match venues, to television broadcasts and social media channels.

In fairness, there is some pink, in the form of a thin central stripe - just the one, mind - but the cruel demotion of Notts County from the Football League just as the Turin giants look their gift horse in the mouth really is darkly poetic. Light and dark-ly poetic. Chiaroscuro-ly poetic.

Anyway, there’s been a backlash. There’s always a backlash when a team makes a drastic change with their kit. I, however, am not particularly bothered. There are things, of course, because there are always things, but the broad shift I - whisper it - quite like.

You may have noticed that retro kits are pretty de riguer. A little while ago, I recorded a podcast with John Devlin on the subject of re-releases, or reissues, and specified to him that we’d be discussing that complete copy culture specifically - though not without its discrepancies in most cases - and not the - subtly different - trend for new kits that look a lot like previous ones. Cover versions, if you will. And as the global authority on cover versions (even with the spelling mistake, it got me Keane tickets dinnit) I intended to chat to someone - perhaps John - about the latter at a later date. Inadvertently, that later date arrived with our talk about the 2018 World Cup kits.

So let’s start this look at which kits should be revisited in that way - the title didn’t give it away? - with an international example…