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 League of Shirts 2011
Thrills unbounded, our Summer League of Shirts enters its third season.  The principles are only slightly changed this season, and remain very simple.  Points are awarded for each shirt of a football team observed during a stay in an Italian resort at some time during the summer months.  One shirt, one point.  Unofficial gear is excluded. Shirts have to be worn/have been bought - ie: shirts being sold in shops are not included (sorry, Cagliari Calcio). National team shirts are excluded. Anything unrecognisable (after reasonable efforts to identify it) or undesirable is excluded. Bonus points can be awarded at the discretion of the League of Shirts Board.

New for this season, teams tieing on the same number of points will be ranked by criteria based on the long-term financial sustainability of the club without massive injections of cash from financial backers (ie: clubs that are more self-supporting from their own revenues will be marked up), and a second tie-breaker based on style of play may also be used. Of course we don't have much of this info on the beach, so these criteria are fairly loose. 

Anyway, our decisions are final. Those are the rules.

This year sees an interesting aray of shirts from a slightly wider range of countries and several shirts from lower leagues.

The league tables for each week of the 2011 season so far are shown below.  
For extra analysis and chat, visit our new facebook page at  facebook.com/leagueofshirts
 


Summer 2011  FINAL TABLE    (Week 6)
       
(1) 
(1)    Internazionale Milano – Campioni 2011 della Lega delle Maglie.  Dalla curva si alzera', un grido - magica Inter, facci sognare.    Per la seconda volta, Internazionale Campioni (Campioni anche 2010 e ‘runners-up’ 2009), Inter vincere il campionato contro il Chelsea di due punti.  Internazionale Milano are League Champions for a second time in a row, leading Chelsea by one point in the final table for 2011.  Congratulations once again Inter. 
 
 
 
(2) 2011 League of Shirts runners-up. Chelsea! A variety of more or less gaudy, colour-clashing second and third strips on the beach was enough to see Chelsea into second place in this year’s League of Shirts. In fact the colours were more like swimwear. Scrap metal merchants throughout southern England will no doubt be delighted.
 
 
 
(3) In third place..... Bayern München.  Welche Münchner Fußballmannschaft kennt man auf der ganzen Welt? FC Bayern, Stern des Südens, du wirst niemals untergehn in die Trikotsliga! Bayern auf dem dritten Platz abschließen. Congratulations Bayern München, still collecting points in the final week, and finishing third. Vielen Dank an alle die fantastische Bayern-Fans für ihre Unterstützung des Trikotsliga.





(4)  Norwich City.  The Canaries... a late surge (actually one retro Norwich shirt from the Fashanu era, mainly white so presumable away) was enough to push Norwich City up to 4th place, coinciding with their surge up to 11th place in the Premier League.  
On the ball, City.

(5)  Benveniti i Rossoblu!   In 5th place – at last a serious influx of shirts from the local team – Serie A’s Cagliari.  Actually we’d seen a lot of them on sale, but the League’s rules mean that shirts have to have been bought/worn to be counted. Ragazzi nella spiaga con la maglia rossoblu... Forza Cagliari!

In 6-10th places....São Paulo finish 10th, our first ever side from outside Europe. Arsenal languish outside the top 5, as in real life, with 2 points.  Barcelona – previous League of Shirts Champions- are in 6ththis year with just 2 points, with Real Madrid and Napoli just behind Arsenal, falling behind on our financial sustainability rule.   

Starting with the bottom half - Leeds United top the bottom half in 11th place.  We've seen a good number of smaller teams this year, including two local sides, AC Porto Torres of Serie D, and non-league PSF Sant'Elena. Controversy surrounded the decision to allocate Redbull Salzburg's points to the 'true' local team SV Austria Salzburg.  Serie B's Brescia Calcio -  relegated last season - finished above big-name teams Lazio and Juventus on our financial sustainablity measure.  And burried in among the smaller sides, losing out big time by virtue of their financial structure, it's the biggest name of all - Manchester United: little evidence of ‘Britain’s top global brand’ here on the beaches of Italy.



       
League position     Points
       
1   Internazionale Milano 7
2 Chelsea
 6
3   Bayern München 5
4   Norwich City 3
5   Cagliari 3
6   Barcelona 2
7   Arsenal 2
8   Real Madrid 2
9   Napoli 1
10   São Paulo 1
11   Leeds United 1
12   Porto Torres 1
13   PSF Sant'Elena 1
14   Brescia 1
15   Fulham 1
16   Juventus 1
17   Lazio 1
18   Werder Bremen  
19   Manchester United 1
20   San Marino Calcio 1
21
SV Austria Salzburg 1
       
Disqualified   AC Milan 2






Summer 2011 Week 5   
       
A real shake-up in the top half this week.  Bayern's 4-week reign at the top comes to an end as they are toppled by a surge of Internazionale Milan shirts at the beach.  A plethora of Chelsea 2nd and 3rd strip shirts in various ghastly and frankly undignified colours around the pool sees the west London club take the second spot, dumping Bayern into third.  Barcelona move up into 4th, while Arsenal and Real Madrid also move ahead of Norwich City, who find themselves down to 7th place.

Not much change in the bottom-half, though we welcome our first shirts of the season from Serie A Juventus, and the Bundesliga's Werder Bremen, who are only our second side from Germany this year.

As the weather begins to change at the beach, and we move into the final week of the 2011 Summer League of Shirts, the top of the table remains fairly open.  Just two points separate the top three, and the next four sides are all tieing on two points a piece.
       
League position     Points
       
1   Internazionale Milano 6 
2 Chelsea
 5
3   Bayern München 4
4   Barcelona 2
5   Arsenal 2
6   Real Madrid 2
7   Norwich City 2
8   Napoli 1
9   Leeds United 1
10   Porto Torres 1
11   PSF Sant'Elena 1
12   Brescia 1
13   Fulham 1
14   Juventus 1
15   Lazio 1
16   Manchester United 1
17   San Marino Calcio 1
18
SV Austria Salzburg 1
19   Werder Bremen 1
       
Disqualified   AC Milan 2

Summer 2011 Week 4   
       
No change this week at the very top - Bayern still lead, but are level on points with Inter and Chelsea, the first time we have had a tie of any sort at the top, let alone a three-way points tie.  Chelsea move ahead of Norwich with Real Madrid, new in the league this week in 5th, now level on points with the Canaries.

Sensationally, the League of Shirts this week excluded AC Milan from the league, following an investigation of links between the club and owner Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian Prime Minister. In a statement League of Shirts announced that Berlusconi, having brought Italy into disrepute, also tainted the club by virtue of his ownership, and the League would therefore disqualify AC Milan to avoid similarly being brought into disrepute.  The League of Shirts said it would reconsider the position should ownership of the club change.  

New this week - Italian representation rises again, with Serie A's Napoli making their first appearance; and we welcome this year's first non-league side, PSF Sant'Elena from Sardinia. 

       
League position     Points
       
1   Bayern München 4
2 Internazionale Milano
 4
3   Chelsea 4
4   Norwich City 2
5   Real Madrid 2
6   Barcelona 1
7   Arsenal 1
8   Napoli 1
9   Leeds United 1
10   Porto Torres 1
11   PSF Sant'Elena 1
12   Brescia 1
13   Fulham 1
14   Lazio 1
15   Manchester United 1
16   San Marino Calcio 1
17
SV Austria Salzburg 1
       
Disqualified   AC Milan 2



Summer 2011 Week 3   
       
The Italians are arriving in numbers - and unlike last year, they are not for the most part wearing Barcelona shirts.  A surge from Milan has shaken up the top of the table, with Internazionale coming from nowhere to seize the 2nd spot from Norwich with a mighty 3 points, while AC Milan are fifth with 2 points.  But Bayern ease ahead again, adding a point to stay top. 

After Norwich in third, Chelsea are fourth.  Barcelona have turned up this week - one point putting them in sixth place for now - but in previous years we have seen a relentless surge in Barcelona shirts in the later weeks, leaving them winners in 2009 and runners-up in 2010.  

We have our first local Sardinian side - Porto Torres, from the north of the island - who are also our first Serie D (or equivalent 4th tier) team. We also welcome San Marino Calcio to the League - after some debate about whether what we saw was the San Marino city or national shirt.  What a ridiculous badge they have!  On the subject of ridiculous club badges, some team from Manchester has crept into unlucky 13th, their lowly ranking reflecting a club beset by a manifestly unsustainable debt.
       
League position     Points
       
1   Bayern München 4
2 Internazionale Milano
 3
3   Norwich City 2
4   Chelsea 2
5   AC Milan 2
6   Barcelona 1
7   Arsenal 1
8   Leeds United 1
9   Porto Torres 1
10   Brescia 1
11   Fulham 1
12   Lazio 1
13   Manchester United 1
14   San Marino Calcio 1
15
SV Austria Salzburg 1






Summer 2011: Week 2  

Bayern go top, leapfrogging Norwich as if in some kind of terrible retribution for their 1993 UEFA Cup exit at the hands of the Canaries. Canaries fans at the beach left desperately searching suitcases for extra shirts. 

Meanwhile Chelsea creep up from nowhere, as they often do, into third, also on two points but with Norwich's superior financial sustainability edging them above heavily-bankrolled Chelsea, which will no doubt show for real on 27 August at Stamford Bridge. 

And at last we have some Italians - this year wearing Italian shirts rather than opting for Barcelona.  Welcome to Brescia, in their Centenary year, and good luck in Serie B.

You can read more background and analysis - including the moving tale of the man in the Leeds shirt who appeared to know very little English - at our new Facebook page - facebook.com/leagueofshirts
League position   Points
1   Bayern München 3
2   Norwich City 2
3   Chelsea 2
4   Arsenal 1
5   Leeds United 1
6   Brescia 1
7   Fulham 1
8   Lazio 1
9
SV Austria Salzburg 1

 

Summer 2011: Week 1  

Creato in Italia, come dichiamo in East Anglia.  Norwich's new Italian shirts pay off in the summer sun of Sardinia as they lead the first stage of the League. 

Arsenal, Bayern, Leeds and Fulham all follow close behind with a shirt a piece.  As do Salzburg. But we don't recognise the team whose colours were actually being worn on the beach - following their disgraceful transformation into the marketing subsidiary of a third-rate soft drinks company (along with the New York MetroStars). So in sixth place, we recognise instead the club's true successors, SV Austria Salzburg. Go Violets!
League position   Points
1   Norwich City 2
2   Arsenal 1
3   Bayern München 1
4   Leeds United 1
5   Fulham 1
6
SV Austria Salzburg 1

 

 

 

 

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