1996-1998 Home Player Shirt (Big Carlsberg)
The genuine player shirt used for domestic competition continues to have bigger Carlsberg sponsor logo when compared with replicas.
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| The Liverpool Shirts Museum 1996-1998 Home Player Shirt (Big Carlsberg) |
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| This is the first home shirt released under the Reebok era and spanned for two seasons from 1996-1997 and 1997-1998. This shirt should be revolutionary design as it's the first time in over 30 years a Liverpool shirt comes with a neck-collar. The genuine player shirt used for domestic competition continues to have bigger Carlsberg sponsor logo when compared with replicas. |
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| Liverpool 1997-1998 Home Player Shirt - Number 2 shirt belongs to defender Rob Jones. This is not a 1996-1997 shirt because unified Premier League names & numbers were started in use from season 1997-1998. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Featured Jamie Redknapp in action wearing a long sleeved 1996-1998 home player shirt. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The major difference lies in the Carlsberg sponsor size - the upper one is from a replica shirt, the lower one is from a player shirt used for domestic competitions. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Upon a direct side-by-side comparison, an additional registered mark is found around the Reebok logo only on the player shirt (right side). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Though this shirt comes with an unprecedented neck collar design, the genuine player shirt's collars are in fact stitched down on the shoulders position. That means one cannot flip up a player shirt's collar completely. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Back to 1990s Player Shirts Episode II | |||||||||||||||||||||||||