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Don't they all look much better?
Honestly, no.
Anyway, the font..
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As expected, the back of the shirt looks really messy with a player name & number.
It might sound dumb, but in this regard, it's important to view text, letters and numbers as merely shapes rather than a meaningful symbol. For example, "1" isn't a one, it's just a straight line. A "0" isn't a zero, it's a circle/oval.
Creating "shapes" that look nice, and paying close attention to the angles and the ratios that these shapes create, is the base fundamental of creating a functional and visually appealing font. Now look at our shirt.. The shapes created by the letters, numbers, and the spaces between them, is completely chaotic. Why? Because they're laid over a zig-zag background. I suspect the choice of font for the numbers is designed to try offset this, but I'd argue they've failed in that regard. See here:
Examine the areas I've circled in red. See all these awkward little bits of blue and black that stick out due to the player names and numbers in white? They contribute to an untidy feel.
Look at the lines I've marked in green. See how the angles created are completely different to, and work against, those of the diagonal zig-zag lines? These things also contribute to that untidiness.
These things matter. And you don't encounter these problems anywhere near as badly with plain vertical (or horizontal) stripes (for obvious reasons.) With the vertical stripes, you only have ONE angle (a 180° angle i.e. a straight line) which "goes against" the angles and curves of the lettering. However on our new shirt, we have chaotic angles and distracting shapes being created absolutely everywhere. I think it's very unappealing and unpleasant.
IMO, the solutions to this are:
1) a very square-ish font. That way you only have 90° angles created by the font, and you can minimize some of the weird shapes being created by the clash of font vs background
2) use a full black area on the back of the shirt. I've personally wanted this for a long time. See here:
3) or the best option yet.. don't use fucking zig-zags on the shirt
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