One thing we want to do on this blog is bring you the insight of some of the Umbro staff – to see how they view the beautiful game, how it impacts on what they do. With this in mind, somebody who will provide a multitude of tales and opinions is James Beaumont. I won’t say too much about what his posts will involve as I’m sure he will give you the details in his imminent first post of the season. However, I thought it would be good to get him to divulge a little information about himself by answering a few questions:

What do you think is the best/worst kit Umbro has ever produced?                       

My favourite kit was the Man Utd. one with the lace up neck – I remember being absolutely obsessed with it, and pestered my mum and dad until I got it! I had the black/white (snow effect) tracksuit to match – class Umbro product, that!

First footballing memory…

My oldest memory of football was hiding behind the setee when England were in the World Cup and they were playing Cameroon. The score was 3-2 to England, I think. I can’t remember the year but it was unreal – I think we went out in the next round losing on penalties!

If wasn’t doing this, I’d be…

…playing football abroad – probably USA – but I think I would most definitley be in Australia playing cricket all winter. Watch this space as it’s still on offer!

Luckily for us, Beau is still to take up that offer and so we look forward to hearing from him very, very soon…