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The Socks that Shouldn't Exist


Welcome, fellow Gooners, to the great Arsenal Away Socks Mystery.

A few weeks ago, I ordered a pair of Arsenal's awesome yellow and blue away socks. I bought last year's as well. As soon as I saw them, I wanted a pair. I strolled through the internet over to worldsoccershop.com and put in my order.

An endless two weeks later, I got the package in the mail. I excitedly ripped into it, only to discover...

These

I called and let them know I had received the wrong socks, thinking maybe they'd sent me the alternate socks instead. Nope. Those are totally different, as it turns out. In fact, I can't figure out where these socks came from. As far as I can tell, they shouldn't exist. But, as you can see from the link above, worldsoccershop.com now has them listed as the "Away" socks, even though two weeks ago, they had the striped yellow and blue socks listed as the "Away" socks. Oddly enough, the US version of Arsenal Direct also has these solid blue socks listed as the "Away" socks.

I just want my fucking striped yellow and blue socks, dammit. Any idea where the hell these socks came from? Should I keep them since they're some sort of fluke and shouldn't exist? Are they training socks? Did Arsenal somehow decide not to wear the yellow and blue ones anymore? What the hell is going on??