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15 Feb

Spurs Shirt Collection 2008/9

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Due to a conflict of interests, my football shirt blogs now have a blog of their own!
Click on here to visit: Mud. Sweat. Badges.

Or just enjoy some photographs of my collection below. I just finished the 2008/09 collection, the full set of home shirts, long-sleeved and short-sleeved, UEFA and Premiership variants, all match-worn player shirts, fresh from the dressing room. If you want to see the other shirts I have in my collection, click here

Match Worn Pavyluchenko Shirt 2008

Match Worn Pavyluchenko Shirt 2008


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Umbro.com Blogs

When Umbro.com asked me join their blogging team I was over the moon. I’m obviously dead interested in football shirts and parts of my match-worn collection are currently exhibited in the National Football Museum. Below, you can follow the links to my official Umbro blogs, which are in the main really geeky affairs, looking at the history of Umbro and football memorabilia.

Enjoy!

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1. Getting Shirty: Umbro examines the world of rare football shirts
“Hi guys, I have a limited edition Umbro England World Cup 1966 shirt in a gold case, only 1966 were made, and I was wondering how much would that be worth nowadays?” The above enquiry was posted on the Umbro blog recently, so we set intrepid writer and football shirt nut Jeff Maysh [...]
2.Getting Shirty: the story behind Beckham’s kit
As we mentioned earlier, Loaded’s Jeff Maysh is joining the blog team here at Umbro to give the inside track on all the world of football shirts. Jeff’s a big collector of shirts, and knows his football – despite being a Spurs fan. Here’s his blog for us, where he looks at the detail that [...]
3. England Shirt…Tailored By The Mighty Boosh
Here’s an England shirt as you’ll never have seen it before…designed by Julian Barrett and Noel Fielding of The Mighty Boosh. It was passed on to us by Jeff Maysh over at Loaded magazine, who’s going to be writing some blogs for us, starting later today. The Boosh designed the shirt for a Loaded charity [...]

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The Day I Scored At Wembley!

So that’s another boyhood dream ticked off. On Wednesday 25th November 2009, I scored a 25-yard goal at Wembley stadium. Okay, it was quite a warped take on my actual boyhood dream: This was supposed to me playing for Spurs against Arsenal in the FA Cup final. Instead, my goal was set up by X-Factor winner Shane Ward, in a special match organised by superbrand Umbro. But they all count. Here’s what happened.

The away dressing room at Wembley

The away dressing room at Wembley

The magnificent Wemb-erly!

The magnificent Wemb-erly!

I do a lot of work with Umbro, and to celebrate the launch of their new Speciali boot and some superb new kitwear, they invited some journalists and TV types to play out a match on the actual pitch. Which was possibly the largest pitch I’ve ever seen. When you receive the ball, it feels like you’ve got weeks to decide what to do. Unless you have a touch as appalling as mine.

Preparing for action next to my strike partner, Shane Ward from X-Factor.

Preparing for action next to my strike partner, Shane Ward from X-Factor.

The team of out of breath journalists and celebrities

The team of out of breath journalists and celebrities

T4 presenter Rick Edwards: annoyingly fast footballer

T4 presenter Rick Edwards: annoyingly fast footballer

I spent much of the time upfront with Shane, but was marked by man-mountain Rick Edwards off the telly. Umbro weren’t overly impressed that my Speciali boots didn’t fit and that I wore my own Adidas pair. Nevertheless, like most of the players, I was here to score.

Zoo magazine's Leo Moynihan was playing a blinder before his Wembley dream ended ina trip to casualty

Zoo magazine's Leo Moynihan was playing a blinder before his Wembley dream ended in a trip to casualty

Being largely unfit, I found myself in on goal just twice in 90 minutes. But when a through ball from Ward slipped past ASOS’s Paul Drew, I wasn’t (as Harry Redknapp might say), going to fuck about. So I hit it from outside of the box and watched as it sailed in. Funny feeling that, seeing yourself score at Wembley. Embarrassingly, I remember shouting, “That felt alright!” and hearing it echo off the empty stadium walls.

My goal. 85th minute. I dont remember the 'keeper looking that sluggish...

My goal. 85th minute. I dont remember the 'keeper looking that sluggish...

Nevertheless, it flew in. Pele never got to play at Wembley. I did and it was a marvelous experience and probably one of the most enjoyable afternoons of my silly little life.

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My Football Shirt Collection

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Due to a conflict of interests, my football shirt blogs now have a blog of their own!
Click on here to visit: Mud. Sweat. Badges.

A photograph taken for Spurs magazine 'Hotspur'. They came round to do a feature on my shirts one day.

A photograph taken for official Spurs magazine 'Hotspur'

I used to pick up shirts worn by players you see, and I got carried away. At one point I had about 200- mainly from my beloved Spurs. As you can probably guess I’m now considering selling the lot. Apart from Klinsmann’s debut shirt, I think, which is currently on display at the National Football Museum, Preston. Do read on…

Here are some Spurs match worn numbers: (click one to see a nice gallery)

The main shirt is probably this…

JURGEN KLINSMANN MATCH-WORN SPURS DEBUT SHIRT WEARING THIS SHIRT JURGEN ‘DIVED’- ONE OF FOOTBALL’S MOST FAMOUS MOMENTS. SPURS vs SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY, 1994

Jurgen Klinsmann's Debut Shirt vs Sheffield Wed. 1994

Jurgen Klinsmann's Debut Shirt vs Sheffield Wed. 1994

It is currently on a long-term loan to the National Football Museum, Preston. Click here, to see the news piece about its arrival.

The next shirt is incredibly rare. Only a handful were made for players in the 2001 Worthington Cup Final with Blackburn due to a colour clash. It reportedly cost Adidas £100,000 to do this in the factory. This belongs to a substitute player, although this hardly affects its value to collectors.

A one-off yellow kit created for the 2001 Worthington Cup Final

A one-off yellow kit created for the 2001 Worthington Cup Final

Some more special Spurs shirts below: Klinsmann’s yellow away shirt 1994, Sheringham’s last ever Spurs shirt (signed, “300 Not Out!” in reference to his goal tally) and even Teddy’s first Spurs shirt of ‘94- which he wore for about four months, scoring many goals.

Below, Ossie Ardiles centenery year shirt. It’s currently framed in my bedroom.

Ossie Ardiles Match Worn Spurs Centenery Year 1982, the year of my birth.

As well as Spurs shirts, I used to find myself in possession of visiting player’s kit that was swapped with Spurs players, including this rather fine Beckham jersey. Inside, David has cut the inner layer away, as he found it uncomfortable, and there are some other quirks to the shirt making it completely unlike the replicas. No, it doesn’t smell of Posh.

One of David Beckham's shirts, from the Spurs kit room

One of David Beckham's shirts, from the Spurs kit room

These are some other odds and sods, including a Barcelona shirt worn in a Champions league semi-final, and a sponsorless Chelsea European shirt from just after September 11th, when they had to remove their ‘airline’ sponsor amid security fears.

Below is Graeme Le Saux’s England shirt from the World Cup clash with Argentina in which Beckham was sent off. The shorts are worn, the shirt is his spare (Le Saux wore the short sleeve one in the match- they get two).

Le Saux's shirt and shorts, England Versus Argentina, World Cup 1998

Le Saux's shirt and shorts, England Versus Argentina, World Cup 1998

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