Umbro At Wembley

A few of us from Umbro went down to Wembley earlier this week – not just for a look around the magnificent, 90,000-seater stadium, but to play a couple of games on the pitch. To say we were extremely proud, nervous and honoured to get such an opportunity would be the understatement of the year. We invited a bunch of journalists, writers, musicians, TV presenters and general footy-loving folk along with us, and the result was two games full of end-to-end action played by people with a massive range of ability. There’s still plenty of debate going on here at Umbro Towers about some of the referee’s decisions, and there’s a real fear that some of us might never stop talking about winning or scoring a goal at Wembley, but we’re sure that everyone involved would agree that it was a great experience.
The Morning Game was a 4-4 thriller, featuring two disputable penalties, one team taking a 3-0 lead before being pegged back to 3-3, and at least one player having to leave the pitch due to injury.
The Afternoon Game finished 5-3 to the whites, although the losing red side had a goal disallowed and at least one disputed offside call go against them.
There was plenty of pictures taken on the day for posterity, and we’ve posted them up on our Flickr site for everyone to see. Here’s a selection of some of the finest we captured during the afternoon match…













On 27 Nov 2009, at 12:24 pm Winning Captain wrote:
A win is a win
On 17 Dec 2009, at 7:02 pm Umbro Blog – Umbro’s best of 2009 wrote:
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