Five best and five worst Tottenham Hotspur kits

We look back at 30 years of team strips from current Premier League clubs, with Spurs next up on the catwalk

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  TOTTENHAM'S BEST: 5) 2015/16 home: Tinkering with tradition on home tops can be a major risk for clubs, but Under Armour pull it off here. Usual Spurs colours but with blue sash across the top which inspired the team into a third-place Premier League finish. Getty

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  4) 1989/1991 home: Had to get this one in, even if it only scrapes into the 30-year limit. Classic Hummel design worn during a fantastic period for Tottenham with the likes of Paul Gascoigne running the midfield and Gary Lineker untouchable up front. Great team, great strip. Getty

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  3) 1991-94 away: You can understand why Spurs stuck with this one for three seasons: it’s a beauty. Umbro continued with an all-yellow strip but introduced a bit of abstract patterning on one shoulder and the shorts. Getty

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  2) 2014/15 away: What effort from Under Armour. A predominantly black kit with yellow trim and yellow fade in and out pinstripes down middle of top. Provided a clear boost for Harry Kane who would break the 30 goal barrier but the club’s barren run without a trophy would continue after a 2-0 defeat to Chelsea in the League Cup final. Getty

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  1) 2005/06 away: This is sunshine and blue skies on holiday captured in a football strip. Spurs secured a top five finish under Martin Jol but were denied a Champions League spot after the food poisoning debacle at West Ham on the final day of the season. Dodgy lasagne aside, this is a beautiful rich, dark blue with bright yellow trim and a stunning effort from Kappa. AFP

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  WORST: 5) 2016/17 third: The golden rule sadly broken by Spurs here. Granted, Harry Kane was unstoppable with 35 goals and the team finished second in the Premier League but those achievements are soiled by this tacky all-gold kit. It is also overshadowed by the tasteful away strip of navy blue with gold trim. Getty

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  4) 2009/10 home: Puma criminally decided to spoil Tottenham’s classic home colours by throwing in some unseemly yellow patches throughout the kit. Still, the players kept their focus despite this unsettling turn of events and Harry Redknapp’s side secured a Champions League spot for the first time. Getty

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  3) 2018/19 third: You might get away with throwing paint randomly across a canvas in the art world, but not on an English top-flight football kit. Could have looked alright with simply the dark green top third and rest in light green, but sadly it just looks like they’ve spilled paint during the design process. A sad stain on the memory of their famous Euro comeback against Ajax. Getty

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  2) 1991/93: Third kits were not exactly all the rage in the early 1990s, which is a good thing if they had all been like this. Quite a smart sky blue colour is defaced by barely readable large letters spelling out SPURS in vertical striping, in case you were wondering who was playing. Used on the front and back of the shirt plus the shorts just to compound the blunder. Alamy

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  1) 2006/07 third: Some might claim it’s a ‘chocolate’ coloured strip, but it’s not, it’s brown and closer resembling something with a far grimmer odour. Which is appropriate because this strip stinks and even the smart gold trim cannot rescue it. Getty

Premier League clubs are back in training after the coronavirus-enforced lockdown.

Before the season kicks back into gear on June 17, we will continue our look back on 30 years of football kits from the current 20 top-flight English clubs.

There have been some stunning works of wonder over the years ... as well as truly heinous crimes committed in the name of sporting fashion.

Next in our series is Tottenham Hotspur, so take a trip down memory lane in the photo gallery above and click on the arrows, or simply swipe to look at the next image.