We love a good kit leak post here at Carty Free Towers. They’re fun amuse-bouche type posts that simultaneously look to the future and give us all nuggets of hope, even though they are essentially furthering an entrenched and expensive form of capitalism that seeks to mostly divest Tottenham Hotspur fans from around $100 of their hard-earned money each season. I mean, if you think about it there’s really no reason beyond pure greed that a football club needs to play matches in 3-4 completely different kits every season and offer them for sale to its supporters.
But never mind all that, because have you seen the leaked images of Tottenham’s 2025-26 away kits that just dropped on FootyHeadlines? HOLY CRAP THESE RULE.
OK so we’ve known for a while that Spurs were going to have a primarily black away kit this season, with “iron grey” highlights. We also found out that the kits were going to be “99% black”. Now we know what that means, and my god are these beautiful.
Now, some old heads around here are going to look back at past kit leak articles and express some thinky-emoji interest in the fact that I have, in the past, criticized certain home kits as the club charging £100 for “a white t-shirt,” especially when this is, well, basically a black t-shirt. But LOOK AT THIS SHIRT. I mean, just LOOK at it! I am in love. I would wear this to a black tie formal gala. Yes, it’s simple. Yes, it’s black. But it is also gorgeous.
The cool thing is that it’s also not just a black t-shirt, because there’s a subtle Iron Gray grid pattern overlaid upon it if you look at the close-up detail images, and that’s cool because not only does it add a subtle sophistication, but you can also use it to help calculate your geometry homework. They’re also slimming for, uh, gentlemen of a certain age who might be going a little bit to seed lately.
I haven’t purchased an (*cough*) official Tottenham shirt since 2017, though someone kindly gifted me this year’s home shirt (thanks, cancer). I will almost certainly purchase this one. The only question is what name to get on the back. Someone on Bluesky joked that it doesn’t matter which name you order with this kit, you will get a Romero, and you will love it. Fair enough! Just shut up and take my money because these rule.