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Goalkeeper kit designs in the 1990s were on another level

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While the modern tendency is to dress goalkeepers in simple hi-vis outfits or jerseys based on dreary templates, it wasn't so long ago that professional football was in a period of total lawlessness when it came to their kit designs.

We are of course talking about the 1990s, the decade when the uniform of the player between the posts went from an afterthought to an outlandish mix of spots, stripes, polygons, prints, hoops, hashing and a lot more besides -- sometimes all at once -- slathered all over the same shirt.

Many of the world's top shot-stoppers suddenly found themselves dressed in the loudest, most egregious football kits ever created.