Bedale AFC have taken a battering before the season even starts with the delivery of a new toad-in-the-hole themed kit.
The first team will take to the field for their matches in the North Riding League in shirts emblazoned with the classic British dish.
It means their shirts and shorts will resemble sausage and batter and the garish strip is completed with green socks.
To make matters worse the goalkeeper’s shirt and shorts are modelled on a side order of mixed veg.
In the past few seasons Bedale have become notorious for having the worst kits in the entire footballing world.
Previous incarnations have included a hot dog shirt, a cheese grater kit and last season they wore a see-through kit in a push to remind men to get checked for prostate cancer.
The whacky kits have all been dreamt up by the club’s sponsor, the
North Yorkshire-based sausage maker, Heck.
The firm’s co-founder, Andrew Keeble, said, ‘What started as an
innocuous sausage kit a few years ago has snowballed into this
massive, almost unstoppable force that shows no sign of letting up.
“Every time we think that’s it, we get another idea for a new kit and
away we go again. However, there is a very serious side to all of this
because Heck and Bedale AFC continue to raise awareness and funds for
prostate and testicular cancer.”
Bedale chairman Martyn Coombes said: “To encourage the lads we’ve
called this kit toad in the goal.
‘We got such a huge response to past kits we were inundated with
requests for people to buy them, so we decided to produce extra shirts
to cope with demand and, in the process, raised thousands of pounds
for our chosen charity, Prostate Cancer UK, with £5 from the sale of
every shirt donated to the charity.’”
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