Uniform controversies that have rocked sport around the world
Manly Sea Eagles
Manly players sporting the club's pride jersey - which has created one of the biggest firestorms in recent NRL history, with multiple players refusing to wear the strip for Thursday's match.
Sonny Bill Williams
Sonny Bill Williams, shown here with tape covering the Bank of New Zealand logo on the collar of his Blues jersey in 2017, when at the time he said that his objection to wearing clothing that promoted banks was central to his religious beliefs.
James McClean
Irish footballer James McClean has received heavy criticism during his career for not wearing a jersey with a poppy on it for games held around Remembrance Day. He has said his reasons for not wearing the poppy stem from his upbringing in Derry, and the role that the British Army played in The Troubles.
Borussia Dortmund
Nothing is more important in German football than a club's identity, so Borussia Dortmund fans were furious in 2021 when a controversial kit was rolled out by Puma, featuring a barely-visible home badge.
First used in a Champions League match against Besiktas, the blowback was so great that a much more prominent badge was hastily added to the kit for later fixtures.
Rayo Vallecano
Spanish team Rayo Vallecano introduced their jerseys for the 2015-16 season, with the club's away shirt sporting a rainbow stripe representing seven different social causes. The Madrid-based club revealed that each of the six colours of the rainbow stood for something: Cancer (red), disability (orange), depression (yellow), the environment (green), child abuse (blue), and domestic violence (pink).
The six colours combine to form a rainbow, which represented gay equality.
NBA players
The Black Lives Matter movement was front and centre of the American political landscape in 2020, prompting many, including LeBron James, to don messages of support for the cause while inside the NBA's playoff bubble.
Mercedes' black logo - 2020-2021
On the eve of the delayed 2020 F1 season, Mercedes revealed a black livery, in support of the Black Lives Matter movement in the US.
Lewis Hamilton had been a particularly vocal critic of F1's lack of diversity - indeed he is the only black driver in the history of the sport - and his team responded by moving away from their traditional silver livery.
They returned to the silver livery for 2022.
Ukraine at Euro 2020
If you look at the centre of the Ukraine kit, you can see an outline of the Crimean peninsula, which was annexed by Russia from Ukraine in 2014. The team wore the kits at last year's European Championships, which a Russian MP called a "political provocation".
Idrissa Gueye
In May, as PSG were set to take the field against Montpellier in the French Ligue 1, Idrissa Gueye was absent from the squad for 'personal reasons' - which were later confirmed to be in relation to his refusal to be a part of a coordinated leaguewide effort to wear special jerseys featuring rainbow-colored numbers created to highlight discrimination.
Gueye is from Senegal, where homosexuality remains a crime punishable by five years in prison.
Cameroon
Cameroon made it back-to-back AFCON titles in 2002, the latter coming in sleeveless jerseys, which have remained iconic since.
However, FIFA weren't as lenient as the CAF when it came to uniforms, and they were forced to add sleeves to their kits for the World Cup a few months later.
