Football Shirts

In a massive turn around Umbro are going to redesign the new England kit only 5 days after it’s release.

The kit with it’s simple minamalistic design has been slaughtered online and in the papers. It’s forced the FA to have the kit redesigned pronto by Umbro for the next qualifer game, a new kit for tonight game against the Ukraine is not possible.

The FA will also have to offer a full refund or swap for any fans who have bought or ordered the new shirt.

EDIT : Check the date, April the 1st!

Manchester United are after a new sponsor, current sponsor AIG are not going to be continuing due the massive financial problems currently in the US. The company has been bailed out by the US government so it’s not really in the best interests of the company to be paying out for sponsorship of a Football team halfway around the world, that would be like UK tax payers paying for politicians to watch porn, ridiculous!

United are now actively seeking a new sponsor and reports from the telegraph have put Samsung as front runners. The South Korean electronics company already sponsor Chelsea and it’s unsure if sponsoring two teams in the league would be a conflict of interests. It does work is Scotland where Ranger and Celtic are both sponsored by Carling.

Liverpool are current in talks with beer giants Calsberg to secure a new shirt sponsorship. The could top as much as £60 million which breaks the previous records held by Manchester United and Chelsea for deals with AIG and Samsung.

League Two high flyer’s Rochdale are looking for a new sponsor for next season. Current sponsor MMC Estates are having to pull out with one year left on a 4 year contract.

MMC will remain on the shirts for the rest of the season but Dale will start to looking for a new sponsor now in time for next season.

Brigton Hove Albion have signed a new deal with IT First to be main shirt sponsors. The deal has the option for a further year of sponshorship for the IT company.

It’s been a good couple of months for the club after work started on their new Falmer Stadium in December.

The new Sheffield Wednesday shirt has been released. Made by Puma the new kick sports the Sheffield Children’s Hospital logo on which Wednesday have let the local charity have for the season. The home kit is pretty standard with the away kit yellow with grey shorts.

New Huddersfield Town shirt for the 2009-2010 season have been released. The kit is made by Mitre and the home kit is released with a new away kit. The home shirt has thicker blue and white stripes with red piping. The home kit is sponsored by Yorkshire Air Ambulance.

The New England shirt is almost upon us now and today there have been a further leak of the shirt with some really great videos released by Umbro.

The kit looks really traditional, we knew that Umbro were going back to old school in the kit taking inspiration for the new crest from the 1950’s and tailoring the shirt rather than designing it.

The picture leaked shows England captain John Terry and the England number one David James in the dark green goalkeepers shirt.

Umbro who I think have done a great job this time round have released four video’s about the development of the kit. You can catch the entire blog post here.

You can pre order new England Shirt here.

The new Manchester City shirt for 2009-2010 by Umbro has been leaked on the Internet. Le Coq Sportif have be kicked into touch for Umbro. The sponsor will also change from Thomas Cook to Etihad Airways.

There no news on when the new Manchester City will be released or if that picture is of the actual kit for next season.

League Two Hereford have signed a deal with Admiral to make their new kits for the next three seasons. Admiral will create next season shirt following last seasons kit by Nike.

The kit is expected to cost less than last season which will help fans out, a price has yet to be set. Fans are also able to snap up sale offers on the old Nike kits.