Two goalkeepers. Full Englanded out. Tomorrow is going to be exciting on a very geeky level.
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The Mystery Of The Secret England Third Shirt Continues…
In Blog on April 20, 2010 at 5:56 pmDear Umbro, I know I’m on the payroll an’all, but I have to say, with this tonal blue version of the England away kit, you are really frickin’ spoiling us.
I revealed I’d seen this little bastard on my blog a few months ago Read the rest of this entry »
Artist David James Colours In Boots, Goes Over Edges.
In Blog on April 17, 2010 at 4:38 pm
Rio Ferdinand by David James. Really.
We all know England stopper David James fancies himself as a bit of an artist- in fact he famously paints his teammates portraits when the team have a break from training. But these boots that appeared on eBay last month proved the ‘keeper just can’t keep his pens to himself. He’s defaced his Umbro boots, using a black marker pen.
He wore this pair, below, in last year’s Cup semi-final, and Read the rest of this entry »
A Tasty Little Postbag This Morning
In Blog on April 15, 2010 at 10:28 amThis lot arrived from Umbro HQ today, for an exciting photoshoot I’ll be working on next week.
Watch this space, gromits.
“Designing New Memories”
In Blog on April 13, 2010 at 5:31 pmIn the first of a new series of guest blogs, noted magazine journalist Charlie Parrish discusses teams who showcase next years kit early, and the fresh hope that a sneak peak at a new kit can give a club in showcase games.
Charlie Parrish
“As a Spurs fan, Sunday’s FA Cup semi-final brought back some stirring memories. Obviously, the game’s painfully embarrassing conclusion won’t be entering my personal vault of great Wembley moments along with Gazza’s ’91 free kick.
But watching a pumped-up Pompey debuting their brand new Kappa shirts did trigger flashbacks of my favourite Tottenham – and football kit – moment.
Pompey in their fancy kit, versus 'business-as-usual' Spurs
18 May 1991 was my eighth birthday. It was also the 110th FA Cup final, pitting a Gazza-fuelled, bankrupt Tottenham against Read the rest of this entry »
An Open Letter To The Adidas Legal Department
In Blog on April 13, 2010 at 4:37 pmDear Adidas Legal Eagles,
Please find enclosed photographs of the new Mizuno Wave Ignitus K-Leather Firm Ground boots. You will find them to have the rubber fins and ‘polymers injected into moulds to affect ball swerve’, that you so feverishly protect as your own patented invention, the ‘Predator’.
Dive, Dive, Dive! Vhy I vear ze German’s boots…
In Blog on April 11, 2010 at 9:38 amWhen I posted on Twitter a photograph of my hastily made boot rack for my modest collection (‘er indoors was kicking off about them laying around), there were a few raised eyebrows. (“F.10s?” remarked one eagle-eyed viewer). Yes, I wear Adidas F.10s on hard ground. But I’d like to show you my new match boots, which were actually made for German player Robert Huth.
Blue Adidas F.50, Robert Huth
Like me, Huthy has circus-freak high insteps, so these custom made Adidas F.50s I found on eBay fit me perfectly. Huth wore these for Chelsea, I wear them against pub teams, but this makes me happy on a very sad level. Huth wore SG (Soft Ground) studs but I’m changing them to FG, once I’ve bought the Tunit key on eBay, again, a strangely satisfying thing to do.
Custom Adidas embroidery
Umbro and Loaded Magazine’s England Shirt Extravaganza (in 2009)
In Blog on April 8, 2010 at 3:40 pmThis little project was my baby last year, when Umbro released the brilliant new England home shirt. I work for Loaded, and we asked eight of England’s hottest, coolest and newest designers to make their mark on the kit. Brands including Gio Goi, One True Saxon, Religion, and Chateau Roux ripped, sewed, applied graffiti and in one case shot the kit with a twelve-bore shotgun!
400 Games…THEN You Can Wear Coloured Boots.
In Blog on April 7, 2010 at 3:35 pmI remember watching an episode of Hell’s Kitchen, where Gordon Ramsay steamed into a kitchen and ripped an apron off a young chef, for the simple crime that it had the fellas name embroidered on it. “You haven’t arrived yet,” screamed Ramsay. And I really understood that bollocking.
Which is why I back United boss Fergie’s decision to ban his youth team from wearing coloured boots. The yellow boot is for the scandalously talented, high-achieving internationals like Christiano Ronaldo, not GCSE-avoiding, acne-ridden hopefuls.
A newspaper confirmed: “While first-team stars such as Wayne Rooney, Dimitar Berbatov and Ryan Giggs are free to wear what they like in order to keep up with the demands of their sponsors, Ferguson has decreed that youth team and academy players must wear black.”
Brilliant. Then, these golden boots arrived this morning (I’m beginning to think this blog WAS a good idea); the work of Reebok: A specially produced Read the rest of this entry »
