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Scottish Football Team Ayr United Unveil New Kit With Topless Models

Scottish Football Team Ayr United Unveil New Kit With Topless Models

What a pair of kits!

Tom Wood

Tom Wood

Scottish football team Ayr United have unveiled their new strip for next season, with the assistance of a couple of topless models.

In the interest of balance, the club used both a male and female topless model to show off their new home and away kits. Well, to show off what they would look like painted onto two topless models, at the very least.

The new Ayr United kit, as painted on two topless models.
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This is far from the first time that the Ayrshire club - nicknamed 'The Honest Men' - have courted controversy by pulling this sort of stunt to unveil their new kits.

In the past, people have accused them of being sexist by only using female models for shoots such as these. However, this is now the second year in a row that they've used both a man and a woman.

That man and woman are models Mikael Angesjo and Charis Lister. They both agreed to have the club's colours painted onto their very skin before striking a pose.

Here, they model the new Ayr United kit outside.
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The 2019/20 kit is going to be sponsored by Bitcoin SV, a company that specialises in - you've guessed it - cryptocurrency.

The founder of that company is Calvin Ayre who, fortunately for both him and the club, is a huge Ayr United fan.

This could be a very special kit for the team - who play at Somerset Park - as they look to make the playoffs under manager Ian McCall.

If they are successful there they could be facing off against the likes of Celtic and Rangers in the Scottish Premiership, the top division of the Scottish Premier Football League.

A very casual look here.
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While this unveiling is sure to generate a bit of publicity for the club, the Honest Men's kit launches haven't always been so positive.

A few years back when they used only female models to promote their new jerseys, Maureen McGonigle, founder of Scottish Women in Sport, said: "For a club trying to encourage the local community to support it, this is an own goal.

"They're using tactics from the 1970s to sell strips. They'd be much better using positive images of a family to promote the kit. This is a dreadful piece of marketing."

Taken a lot of photos of these two, haven't they?
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While that may be true, it's unlikely that a kit reveal that just featured pictures of families wearing the shirt would have garnered as much attention, so in that respect it has been a roaring success.

Whether that success will translate into the sale of Ayr United strips in their thousands remains to be seen...

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Topics: SPORT, UK News