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ENGLAND HOME & AWAY Anniversary football kits don’t come around too often, so they are always met with anticipation by football fans and collectors. It is therefore a chance for the kit suppliers and teams to go to town and create a one-off piece that doesn’t conform to trends of the moment and hopefully gets remembered in years to come.

provided the main inspiration for these kits. Shirts which were actual shirts. However in the modern day, with the emphasis ont the strip being lightweight and providing zero distractions, this would have to be a faux shirt. It would have to be a shirt that can adopt all the technologies of the modern kit also.

It is with these principles in mind that the England anniversary kits were designed, something that is memorable, classic and represents the history of England. Sir Stanley Matthews’ England generation is what

The colours would be the same shades as the crest and adopt the classic white-blue-blue combination worn until white socks were introduced in the 1960s.

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