Time for Issue Number 6 of The Heat Press – a brief roundup of news in the Kit World and Kit Community, to catch up on Issue 5 click here

The Headlines

• Coventry City Special Kit
• Blackburn Rovers new sponsor
• Napoli – New 3rd Kit
• Scunthorpe United 2022/23 Kit Vote

Coventry City Special Kit

On Saturday 22nd January, Coventry City wore a special kit when they played QPR (who had their own special kit last week). This kit was to commerate their return to the stadium in Coventry and was called “Ricoh Return” Membership shirt and celebrates the club’s return to the now named “CBS Arena”.

The shirt included a design which incorpates architecture and roof design of the stadium and is only available to Ricoh Return Members and will not be sold generally. The kit also featured white shorts and socks, bespoke to the kit. This follows their Members kit from last season, which was then all navy which

All details can be found at the club’s website here

Blackburn Rovers, New Sponsor

Blackburn Rovers have now joined that small group of teams that have changes their shirt sponsor half way through the season. From 18th January 2022 local business “Totally Wicked” replaced “Recoverite Compression” as the main shirt sponsor, having already been the sponsor of the club’s training kit since 2018.

The club are providing fans the opportunity to update their shirts with a free patch to cover the old sponsor either at the club shop or by contacting them directly.

Napoli – New 3rd Kit

Napoli in their first season of having their kits supplied by EA7 (Part of the Armani Design Group) are getting value from their designer kit manufacturer with their new 3rd kit, called “Flames” becomes the 12th Kit of the 2021/22 season.

Full details of the kits worn can be found in this article at Footy Headlines – here and consist of four domestic kits, four European kits and four special kits (Diego Maradona kits and a Halloween Kit).

Sunthorpe United – 2022/23 Kit Vote

Scunthorpe United have given their fans the opportunity to pick from three choices their new home kit for the 2022/23 Season. The kit once again manufacturered by Macron and offers three very different looks for The Irons.

Full details can be found on the Club’s Website here.

My favourite is shirt 2, I think this will give the club a unique look within The EFL but whatever the choice, they are three good designs.

And Finally….

Whats happening in the Kit Community.

I like to end each issue with some of the “going ons” within the Kit Community.

Its something that I have talked about in another post but wanted to mention it here as well, I am pleased to say that I am now joining The Football Kit Podcast as a member of the team, full details can be found here as well as a link to the podcast on the main menu of this site – Kit Geek to TFKP

It was great to receive my pack of International Kits from the 90s playing cards from @KitCards last week, these playing cards are the second set to be produced via Kickstarter and this project was back by nearly 250 people.

Congratulations to Jon on delivering a wonderful product and something different for the Kit Collector.

One of my favourite Football Kit Content makers out there Chris Chats Shirt delivered one of my favourite videos of year so far, teaming up with #OllieTheKitKid Son of the equally wonderful @Kitkingdom83 for a truly wholesome review of the two different Fiorentina Kappa shirts, a must view 2 minutes, congrats guys – you can find the video here

Another Tweeted I enjoyed this week was from @chewzo14 who paired shirts with tracksuit tops within his collection of Crystal Palace ktis, a great way to see kits in another way and some cracking items on display here.

Let me know your thoughts and comments and if there is any content that you would like me to share in future issues, please message me and let me know the details or use the comments field below or contact me over on @Kit_Geek on Twitter