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Switzerland’s shirts were ripping like wet paper against France

Published 21:29 19 Jun 2016 BST

Kevin Beirne
Switzerland’s shirts were ripping like wet paper against France

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If you read SportsJOE regularly, you'll know that we're big fans of footballing fashion.

We look forward to every new season for a whole number of reasons, but we'd be lying if we said the new kits didn't make up at least some of our excitement. Switzerland took on France in the final Group A game of Euro 2016 on Sunday night - although many of us were annoyed we had to wait until 8pm for some football. We have been pleasantly surprised to see the Swiss shirts looking much better in real life than they did before the tournament, where we ranked them among the worst kits at Euro 2016. And we were all ready to take some humble pie until this happened. https://twitter.com/jnpaquet/status/744609087493660673 No we've never made a kit ourselves, but we would think that one of the main things you'd need from pretty much any piece of clothing is for it to not rip easily. Maybe Mehmedi just picked up the one dodgy shirt before running out to represent his country at a major international tournament we thought, but then it happened again to Arsenal new boy Granit Xhaka. https://twitter.com/afcstuff/status/744619189265141760

And we weren't the only ones to be slightly baffled by this trend, as Twitter users tried to figure out just what those Swiss kits were made of.

https://twitter.com/sarendra_don/status/744608102721290241 https://twitter.com/hmusthaq/status/744620850947645442 https://twitter.com/YoanCSimon/status/744620426870030336 https://twitter.com/Prince__KO/status/744620092000997376 https://twitter.com/iAbhijithA/status/744620019087138816 https://twitter.com/izziesmith15/status/744616075682283522

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Switzerland's shirts were ripping like wet paper against France