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The Alf Ramsey Jacket Returns

In Blog on February 23, 2011 at 5:09 pm

“The Alf Ramsey”. It’s the iconic jacket worn by the World Cup winning tactician, will forever be ingrained in the hearts of anyone who has ever worn the Three Lions on the terraces. Now, Umbro are bringing it back, in three new colours. Because Umbro are clever…they know how to stitch us into fabrics and looks that resonate into England’s (now distant) glorious past.

If you think about it, not many pre-1970s footballers had a ‘look’, or a trademark. You know, like Cantona’s collar or Steve McLaren’s brolly, or Jose Mourinho’s grey coat (“That coat’s from Matalan!”). Sir Alf was a legend a trendsetter from before trendsetters existed.

Here are the new versions available now.

The Wooster- a dapper little number.

The Blue Monday: Neon.

Back In Black: My favourite.

You can read all about it on the Umbro blog.

Inside The Adidas Gifting Suite, Los Angeles

In Blog on February 22, 2011 at 6:30 am

This weekend, there was a very special game of basketball in Los Angeles. Being clever, the NBA pitted the very best players of the East, against the very best of the West, and held it…er, in Downtown Los Angeles. With it, Adidas, who were behind the whole caper, made special limited edition trainers (or ‘kicks’), and shirts (or jerseys). I was invited, as a blatant hanger on, to the Adidas Gifting Suite, a pop up branch of heaven located at the Standard Hotel, Downtown. Sorry, I’m boring you. Look at the swag that was on offer to the various ‘slebs’ and Snoop Doggs who turned up with empty swag bags.




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Rooney’s Shirt Versus USA…reveals secret ‘Game Shirt’ hologram!

In Blog on February 5, 2011 at 9:24 pm

This is Wayne’s shirt from the England vs USA game.

And by using a nifty macro lens, I’ve manage to capture the secret ‘game shirt’ logo on the star, that authenicates the shirt as being one of Wayne’s specially prepared match shirts.

And here are all the other details. Fascinating?




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