really understand the market, the US-based outfit didn’t have football (sorry, soccer) in its blood, not like Adidas and Umbro. Reebok were charged with, almost from day one, a lack of imagination in its design and generally poor choices in the...
23 January 2007
FAI and Umbro announce largest sponsorship deal in Irish sport. The Football Association of Ireland has announced a major sponsorship agreement with Umbro valued at a minimum €16 million through to 2014. Bonus payments based on international team...
21 January 2007
the price of the replica shirts artificially high. The sportswear retailer JJB Sports was fined £6.3m, shirt manufacturer Umbro £5.3m and Manchester United £1.5m. New law Which? is planning to use powers granted to it under the Enterprise Act for the...
05 January 2007
Football kit maker Umbro saw record demand from shops for England football shirts ahead of the World Cup. A fevered build-up to the World Cup meant demand for the red away kit - made legendary by England's World Cup win in 1966 - sent sales to stores...
02 January 2007
the FA Cup. They then embarked on their show of steel for years to come and became hugely successful with it. In the 1970s Umbro designed an excellent kit off all red with a little white v-neck collar and small white cuffs. A golden liver bird with the...
25 December 2006
THIS was the season kits got all fancy Dan, Ipswich, Forest and Liverpool were tearing up Europe in slinky little adidas and Umbro numbers, Coventry and Wales had THAT Admiral kit, and errr... Newcastle went Bukt-astic. Gone were the days of towelling...
23 December 2006
image since the arrival of Roman Abramovich as the club’s owner in July 2003 by ending a decade-long association with Umbro, their kit supplier. The club said that they had decided "by mutual agreement" to terminate the contract five years early and...
02 December 2006
and Christie's began to get excited. 'The key details gave it away,' Convery says. 'The badge, the stitching, the label - 'Umbro World Cup Choice - Made in England'.' Convery did some further research, frequently replaying the end of the 1970 final on...
23 November 2006
major haul of fake England football shirts. Trading Standards Officers working in partnership with The Football Association, Umbro, Dorset Trading Standards and a local legitimate memorabilia company, Spirit of Sport, have intercepted a consignment and...
15 November 2006
company was founded in 1920, in Wilmslow,Manchester, as Humphrey Brothers Clothing; in 1924, the company changed its name to Umbro, a contraction of its previous name, Humphrey Brothers. As one of the earliest kit suppliers to professional clubs,...
05 November 2006
