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Someone’s Private Spurs Collection, And I Took Photos

In Football on March 9, 2010 at 12:20 am

So I was fortunate enough to see the personal collection of a former member of Spurs staff this week. Some highlights here. Sorry for the upside down ones, I was excited. There will be news about who this person is, and some exciting plans very soon.

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So They Let Me Inside Umbro HQ And I Didn’t Steal Nothing

In Blog, Football on March 5, 2010 at 10:22 am
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Umbro's David Blanch talks to the Britain's shirt collectors

Hidden on the 2003 England home shirt, Umbro Senior Designer David Blanch designed a secret strip of raised dots that contained a hidden message in Braille that only blind kids could read. If you’re excited by this revelation, read on, as this blog is for you. “I like doing naughty things like that,” Blanch told me exclusively, at Umbro HQ, this week. “In a world of mass manufacture, I like to put my own stamp on things.”


(Click the above images to see close ups of the Umbro collection)

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