As a football tailoring service with 84 years experience, Umbro has plenty of pieces of football memorabilia – such as Matt Busby’s boots, pictured above. We’re also sure that a lot of you people out there do too, and that’s why we’re hoping to begin a series of exhibitions in which we can showcase the finest pieces of football history around. Here at Umbro, we’re hoping to open up our design space in Manchester’s Northern Quarter to the best pieces of football memorabilia we can find. We’ll look through our archives and find the best bits, but we also want you to get involved. So, if you have any memorabilia that you think might be of interest, get in touch. We’re talking photos, shirts, boots, tickets, programmes, autographs – anything football related.

Of course, that could add up to a lot of stuff, so we’re going to narrow it down with a series of categories. These will then be showcased with a number of mini-exhibitions showing the finest contributions we’ve brought together. Everyone who contributes will be invited along to see their items on display and to explore Umbro’s own elements of football history.

For the first exhibition, we’re sticking to our roots, and focusing on Manchester as a theme. That doesn’t just confine us to United and City though. We want to see stuff from these clubs of course, but we’re also interested in Greater Manchester’s other teams – Bury, Bolton, Rochdale, Oldham, Wigan, etc. If you’ve anything that you think might be of interest, we want to hear from you. You’ve got until Friday November 20 to get your suggestions over to us for the first, Manchester-themed exhibition, which we hope to put on in the new year.

So what to do now? The first thing to do is get in touch – we want to know what footballing stories should we concentrate on – United’s rise to the top? Oldham’s time in the spotlight? Great derby matches? We want to tell Manchester’s footballing story, and we want you to help us. Email your suggestions, perhaps with examples of the things we could include in the exhibition to tell these stories, to blog@umbro.co.uk or comment here on the blog and we’ll use the best ideas to shape the forthcoming exhibition.

To inspire some ideas, have a look at some photos of the Northern Quarter base where we intend to stage the exhibition over at our Flickr account.