Newcastle United have been teasing fans with retro video clips starring Kevin Keegan, Terry McDermott, Alan Shearer and Les Ferdinand on social media for the last few days.
There was a suggestion that perhaps the club had finally convinced King Kev to return to St James' Park as a guest of honour, but most fans had a feeling of great hope that what they were actually teasing would be far more tangible.
The reunion of Newcastle United and Adidas brought around a lot of hope from fans of a certain age that the club would hark back to the first black and white Adidas kit with their new kit over the summer.
That 1995-96 kit was the one that really popularised fans wearing replica kits. Newcastle and Adidas were pioneers and that kit has gone down in history as one of, if not the best ever.
So now, if your 1995-96 shirt has fallen to the ravages of time, or indeed, all those years of swilling Newcastle Brown Ale means your gut hangs out the bottom of it in an unsightly fashion, or you were simply not around 30 years ago to experience the 'beer mat' kit in all its glory, your time as come.
Newcastle today confirmed via social media that they are re-launching the shirt for the 30-year-anniversary.
The Entertainers shirt will be available from Thursday to the public, but Mags and Mags+ members will get 24-hour early access.
If only my days of drinking copious amounts of Newcastle Brown Ale hadn't rendered my frame way beyond the capabilities of football shirt technology, I'd be all over this.
There's no indication, at the time of writing, whether the retro lettering will be available for printing, but imagine how iconic it would be to own a prisitine 1995 shirt with Shearer 9 printed on the back.
What a time to be alive. (We get very excited about kits at Feed Towers).
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