THE WORLD CUP OF DAFC KITS – THE FINALE

By John McNicoll

Which shirt will be crowned the best home strip ever?

We now reach the semi final stage of the competition with only four shirts remaining. If you missed the earlier rounds, you can catch up by clicking here THE WORLD CUP OF DAFC KITS – DOVER ATHLETIC FC.

Semi final match one saw an old classic take on its more recent counterpart. The Gomez 2015 shirt would have its work cut out with the CountryWide Derv shirts clear winners in the early rounds and it would prove to be the same outcome with this. The 1993 Plaaya shirt was an astounding winner, gaining 59% of the votes to become the first Dover home shirt in the final.

Semi final two saw two heavyweights go head to head. Another Plaaya Countrywide Derv, this time the 1995 edition, faced off against our millennial shirt, the 2000/02 Vandanel Jenkins & Pain. On paper it looked to be a tight affair and the voting was in agreement with the 1995 shirt narrowly scraping through to the final with a 52.1% win ratio.

And so onto the final…

The showpiece contained two similar shirts from the early to mid 90’s so one would think it would be a tight, cagey affair as most finals are. It really wasn’t. The 1993 edition romped to victory with 72% of the votes to be Crowned the greatest Dover Athletic home shirt.

Massive thanks again to all involved. A really fantastic bit of nostalgia. Maybe an away one next summer, lads?