In the pink

The new away kit is, in fact, pink. Not even a vivid, strong pink. No, it's a hideous, washed-out grey and pink number which looks, for all the world, like someone took one of the rather nice home strips launched by Greaves and Puma a few weeks ago, and put it through the hot wash a few times.

I've been looking at it for a few hours now, and wondering exactly what to make of it. Part of me reckons it's some kind of 80s-influenced tribute shirt to Miami Vice. You could just see Don Johnson wearing a v-neck sweater with that precise colour scheme and pattern. Or throw on a Pringle logo and it could be a piece of knitwear the casuals would wear during the dark days.

The one thing it doesn't look like, though, is a football kit.

Plus, it suffers from the ridiculous problem which has also plagued the home kit - well, I say ridiculous, but godsend would be a better word depending on your point of view.

Resolution's extended process for changing their name over the summer has left the home and away strips bereft of a sponsor's logo. Now, when the home kit came out, the club and Greaves offered a deal where you could return it for a kit with the logo on it, once our sponsors had finally made up their minds, and it looks like they'll do the same with the new away top.

Great. Clever thinking. Because the one thing I really want from my shirt is a bloody great sponsorship logo across the front of it. Seriously now, how many people genuinely look on their replica kit and think 'You know what this needs? An advert. That'd really complete the look.'