Red outside. Blue inside. Marketing babble everywhere else.
France will take on Vern Cotter’s Scotland at Stade de France, on Saturday, kitted out in a new, red home jersey.
Les Bleus and the Scots have a long-standing tradition [the last decade] of wearing a change strip at home whenever they meet. The French usually opt for white and blue or, as was the case in 2013, all white.
Adidas approached them this year with a novel idea – a gigantic dash of red for their Six Nations opener. The tagline reads ‘Rouge dehors. Bleus dedans’ but it remains to be seen what the ever-skeptical French public make of it.
We’re hoping Mathieu Bastareaud takes to the field, this weekend, with the same Tricolour draped over his hulking shoulders.
To us, The French get-up looks more like the Spanish 2012 football kit. Adidas must have had a few going spare.
