Arsenal’s 24/25 away kit has been leaked and it looks like a special Wakandan kit. Love it.

I’m a fan of the English Premier League current top team, Arsenal. I make my children watch Arsenal games and pay close attention to them Bukayo Saka. My youngest child has a complete Arsenal toddler football kit – the uniform and kit worn by players on association football teams – provided by his godfather, who traveled to London and returned with football gifts. And as with all American sports, the revealing of recent uniforms is at all times entertaining, providing fodder for joy and pain. As a fan of the NBA’s Los Angeles Lakers, it’s rarely that there are a lot of uniform changes, but I like the various editions of uniforms that exist for special games and the like.

Recently, a leak of recent away kits for the 24/25 season appeared on the Internet, sparking discussion on the streets (roads?). Let me be clear: people generally complain. Every time a latest kit is revealed – whatever the team – social media is abuzz with complaints. Sometimes such complaints are justified; I still do not know why the design teams thought this fluorescent yellow with black stripes and the blue letter set was a move. But I’m sure some people enjoyed it just as much.

This brings us to next season’s away kit design, which recently leaked and unlike many on message boards and Twitter, I actually like it, mainly because it looks like something that might come out of Wakanda Design Studios (it’s not that obvious). . The T-shirt itself has a black base, red and green stripes, huge red Arsenal cannon (their team name is The shooters and the emblem are a cannon) and an interesting black and white marble pattern on the sleeves. To be honest, it’s not the best shirt I’ve ever seen, but the colour scheme alone makes it a complete joy. The American hip-hop fan in me sees nothing greater than that cover of the album “The Low End Theory” by A Tribe Called Quest.Damn, I just began playing “Check The Rhime” in tribute.

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There’s something in regards to the combination of red, black and green that obviously alludes to Pan-African flag this speaks on to my revolutionary tendencies. But this colorway really works on so many levels and with so many fly shoes. I do not know in the event that they had fashion in mind when deciding on the colours of the Pan-African flag, but they nailed THAT a part of the design. To be honest, there’s something Afrocentric about this project as well. Whether it’s intentional or not, I see more melanin fans having fun with the sets a bit greater than non-melanin fans. I even have absolutely nothing to support this claim; I’m just saying. I believe kids today like to say: LOOK. For you oldies, it’s short for “if you know you know”, which is shorthand in texts/social media that indicates some insider knowledge on a topic. I overexplained it; I’m getting old – sorry.

Either way, as someone who buys shirts in support of the teams I follow, I like that this particular away kit seems tailor-made for a certain… er… fan community. Was that the rationale? Probably not. But if it works, it works and, on this case, this kit design works wonders for me. Wakanda is not a real place, but in my heart and mind it lives rent-free, and this looks like a Wakanda-themed t-shirt. That’s why I’m here and I am unable to wait to purchase it.

For those that hate this thing – and I’ve seen quite a variety of tweets supporting the lower than thrilled cadre of people that do it – we have tackled a number of the more bizarre-looking designs; this too shall pass. Moreover, the house kits have a blue stripe, which is able to surely make the faithful much more crazy. It’s one thing to mess up your away kit, but does your house kit turn out to be pretty? Phew, Chile, ghetto.

Now if you happen to’ll excuse me, I even have to go and wait for the official pickup so I can spend my hard-earned money.

Wakanda – salute. YYKYK.