Friday, 9 September 2022

Most Iconic - Or England Dreaming?

English football fans have unsurprisingly voted ...

Englands Most Iconic Sports Jersey?
Most Iconic Sports Jersey?

..... for the red football shirt worn by the World Cup winning team of 1966 as being the most iconic football shirt.

Now perhaps equally unsurprisingly the rest of the UK's football fans (Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland), and indeed the fans of every other football (soccer) team in the world will not agree with that opinion.

But hey ho, the survey poll was conducted on behalf of the firm Runners Need and, outside of the English parochial vote for number one slot, the voting was pretty international .....

Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls Shirt
Jordan's Chicago Bulls Shirt

The Top Ten Iconic Jersey/Kits As Voted:
  1. England 1966 football shirt (38%).
  2. Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls shirt (27%).
  3. Usain Bolt's golden running trainers 2016 Olympics (24%).
  4. Torvill and Dean's ice skating Bolero out fit Winter Olympics 1984 (24%).
  5. Brazil's gold 1970 World Cup winning shirt in Mexico (22%).
  6. All Blacks rugby shirts (21%).
  7. Muhammad Ali's white boxing shorts (20%).
  8. England's 1990 World Cup white football shirt (20%).
  9. Manchester United's 1999 treble winning kit (19%).
  10. Team GB's London Olympic team kit (18%).
 
All Blacks Rugby Team Doing 'The Haka'
All Blacks Rugby Team Doing 'The Haka'

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