Umbro Blog

Since posting up the photos of our archive football kits last week, we’ve been happy that several of the ‘unidentified’ kits (where we didn’t know which team or season it was for) have been identified, thanks to your comments.

Special mention goes to Paul Bestell, who identified four shirts, including a 1992-1993 SS Lazio shirt, saruyamasan, who identified a Belgium football shirt, and heydingis, who spotted a 1 FC Kaiserslautern shirt.

I’m also grateful to everyone who commented over on the EPL blog, where there’s some discussion as to why the Sunderland FA Cup Final shirt is so muddy (the short answer is we’re not quite sure).

There are still quite a few shirts we have no team names for though, including a fetching red shirt (with ‘aerodynamic collar’), a neat long-sleeved blue shirt, and a somewhat garish red and yellow striped shirt. If you recognise them, please let me know by leaving a comment on the photo page, or below.

There are still a few shirts in our archive we haven’t yet photographed, so keep your eye on our Flickr profile as I’ll add those as soon as I can…

From The Terrace

On 24 Feb 2009, at 10:17 pm Lindsay Stewart wrote:

A very interesting site, nice to some of the jerseys from the past. Some of the jerseys look like teamwear jerseys.

If you are interested I have a number of Umbro jerseys from to 1980′s through to the present time, including 3 Great Britain rugby league tops (one is the red away jersey), Everton pink and navy top, various Scotland Jerseys (pink one from 1992 and the white and purple away jersey from the nineties and also a Parma yellow and blue lace up away top

Could I also recommend the website True Colours football kits run by John Devlin who has also written two volumes on the same subject
On 26 Feb 2009, at 4:27 am Peter Rapley wrote:

Wow, what a great collection of shirts! But where are all of the Arsenal shirts? I actually e-mailed Umbro some time ago asking about the old 1970s and 1980s Arsenal shirts, but no-one replied. I subsequently learned the probable truth that nobody knew the answers, and there were no records of the old shirts available, at least not that anyone could find. So, anyway, I am so glad to see you taking the archive thing seriously at long last. If you need any information on the old Arsenal shirts (or if you have any for sale of course), please let me know, and I would be happy to help. You can see a few of them here: http://picasaweb.google.com/ArsenalShirts
On 26 Feb 2009, at 5:08 am Hakim Amir wrote:

awesome site!! thanks for creating it…
looking forward to see the new England top..hope it’ll not dissapoint ..cheers
On 26 Feb 2009, at 2:20 pm tom wrote:

Thanks for all of your kind comments! I would love to see any old shirts that you have. I have created an umbro group on flickr so it would be great if you could add your kit pictures so we can build up an archive.

Thanks for the Arsenal shirts link. There are still a lot of shirts here that we haven’t had photographed and I am sure there are some Arsenal shirts amongst them. Since I uploaded this archive, some of the people that have been here a while have started to bring in some of the ones they have kept over the years as well. I will try and get these all photographed and on our flickr profile soon.
On 26 Feb 2009, at 4:59 pm stirling wrote:

Great Site, have added some Manchester City shirts to the flickr Group Pool.
On 26 Feb 2009, at 6:14 pm Bluegutten wrote:

Have added some rare Umbro Manchester City shirts to the Umbro Group on Flickr
On 17 Jun 2009, at 5:34 pm tom wrote:

Thanks for all of your shirt pictures – keep them coming!
On 17 Aug 2011, at 11:54 am Raymond wrote:

Riveting think your post Kudos