Traditional terrace tipplers still mouthing up their marmite at the news that Newcastle's St. James' Park will henceforth be known as sportsdirect.com@St. James' Park Stadium will be further aghast to learn that Chelsea would consider cashing in on Stamford Bridge. We are not too far off from Ethan Armstrong's vision here at EPL Talk of sponsored songs and players.

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Here are the video highlights for the very first season of the Premier League, 1992-93. Included in the video is the great Brian Clough, once-great clubs such as Norwich City, Crystal Palace and Ipswich Town, as well as the intriguing race for the title featuring Manchester United, Aston Villa, Norwich City, Queens Park Rangers and Blackburn Rovers.

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Mexico have successfully qualified for the 2010 World Cup and have released their new home shirt that they will wear at the tournament.The new Mexico soccer jerseys will be manufactured by Adidas with the Adidas logo appearing in the centre of Mexican football kit just below the collar and the ... Click to continue reading...

Photographs of what looks like Italy's new home and away football shirts for the 2010 World Cup have been leaked.

Designed and manufactured by Puma, Italian football fans will hope their nation will be wearing these shirts if and when Italy qualifies for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa next summer.

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The above football kit designs were created by football supporters around the world as part of Umbro's Speciali competition. View more brilliant designs here.

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3. Classic Football Shirts From The Umbro Archives

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Photographs of Germany's football kit for the 2010 World Cup have been leaked.

As is always the case with Germany, Adidas have designed a beautiful jersey for the German national team to wear when they play in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

The new Germany World Cup jersey is white with a black trim.

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While most of the major Premier League clubs are transfixed on creating new fanbases in China only, most of the clubs have ignored the United States. Chelsea is one of the few exceptions, so it's interesting to see hear about Chelsea's latest announcement today that it has partnered with Adidas to develop a basketball shoe, which comes with an exclusive scarf and Chelsea jersey.

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Darren Bent finally looks set to seal his Premier League transfer from Tottenham Hotspur to Sunderland after the clubs agreed a fee for the 25 year old.

The deal is believed to be worth £14million and will bring to an end a lengthy and eventful pursuit from Sunderland boss Steve Bruce.

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Football now spend $8 million per year on junior development/grassroots football. A long way from the AFL's $45 million but lightyears from the old days, and that figure will surely continue to grow in coming years.
Cottees announcing school football gala days, up to $20,000 for your club for up to three years from NAB/FFA and now this. Click to continue reading...

Michael Owen

Haha two goals in my first two games with United. ... Suck on that, haters. ... I am going to do so well this season. And I'm going to laugh at those losers still at Newcastle. And I might even make myself a ham sandwich tomorrow just because I'm Michael Owen and I can do that.

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I'll be off then... byeee!
In stark contrast to Man City, Portsmouth FC is having a shocker this summer. Consider this:
* Pompey's kit supplier, Canterbury, has just gone into administration. So the club now has no company to supply their new football kit, which was due to be launched next Tuesday. Click to continue reading...

AAAAHHHHHHHH I AM ARTUR BORUC AND THIS IS A LIST OF THINGS THAT MADE ME ANGRY THIS WEEK:

1. FRANCK RIBERY I DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR TRANSFER CRAP!!!!! BUT I AM VERY JEALOUS THAT YOU WERE IN A MUSIC VIDEO!!!!! I HAD AN IDEA FOR A MUSIC VIDEO THAT INVOLVED ME PUNCHING THE CAMERA LENS AND SCREAMING FOR FOUR MINUTES STRAIGHT BUT MTV DIDN'T LIKE IT AND THEY TOLD ME TO GET OUT OF THEIR HEATING DUCT BUT I COULDN'T BECAUSE I WAS STUCK AND IT HURT!

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Sheffield Wednesday (home)
1965 - 1972
As a football fan of some advanced years there comes a point in your life when you find yourself pondering some of the quirkier aspects of the game's history. Things like 'When was the last time Ron Atkinson was a colour other than orange?' or 'Was Bryan Robson born injured? Click to continue reading...

The presentation of Cristiano Ronaldo at the Bernabeu on Monday was, of course, completely ridiculous and over the top. We all know that. But what if it continued?

112′ Iker Casillas cries.

124′ Cristiano stares at himself on the big screen for a good 15 minutes, smirking and using every ounce of his limited will power to refrain from pleasuring himself.

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Umbro kill it once again with this very simple, very retro kit, which brings back memories of this old chess-board number: Another pic below: Now that is a proper football kit. Excellent work, Umbro -Â being bought out by Nike...

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Umbro kill it once again with this very simple, very retro kit, which brings back memories of this old chess-board number: Another pic below: Now that is a proper football kit. Excellent work, Umbro -Â being bought out by Nike...

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I'm not normally one who passes comment on football strips, I have no intention of buying one (unless it's for a present), because in my view men over the age of thirty should only been seen wearing a football kit when they're actually playing the game, added to which I'm a bit fat these days - I'm not Newcastle United (more on them shortly) fan fat yet, I just have a bit of a paunch - it's not Click to continue reading...

Manchester City are scheduled to announce on Friday a one-of-a-kind concert to coincide with the launch of their new home football kit for the 2009-2010 season, according to an insider.

The event will be organized in conjunction with Umbro and is entitled "Live From City." The concert will feature headliner Doves, while the opening acts will be Mike Pickering (doing a DJ set), Twisted Wheel, Kid British and The Answering Machine.

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After months of rumors and leaked pictures, Manchester United has officially unveiled its new football kit for the 2009-2010 season.

Designed and manufactured by Nike, the new home Man United football kit celebrates 100 years of Old Trafford history. The players will wear the kit for the first time during their pre-season tour of Asia next month.

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Chelsea today officially unveiled their new away football kit for the 2009-2010 season.

The new adidas kit will be worn for the first time when Chelsea face AC Milan on 24 July during the pre-season tour. The away kit for 2009/10 uses a tonal hoop in dark navy and new navy with a neon yellow highlight for the adidas three stripes, and tipping on the collar and sleeves.

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Criticism of Newcastle United has long since passed from being some form of sport into being a sadistic ritual, but their new change kit for next season is surely worthy of some comment. The two-tone yellow striped number from Adidas has already been described as "custard and cream with yellow shorts" (When Saturday Comes), "the worst football strip ever" (The Sunderland Echo, perhaps unsurprisingly and a "garish orange and yellow stripe number" (The Sun) but, whilst it may well be the worst offender of the summer, it certainly isn't the only terrible football kit that has been designed over the last few months or so.

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A new photograph of Manchester United's home football kit for the 2009-2010 season has been revealed by Kitbag, the football shirt distributor.

The picture is so dark, on purpose, that it's difficult to ascertain its features, but the shirt does appear to have the black V sign on the chest.

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A photograph has been leaked showing the Tottenham Hotspur home, away and third kits for the 2009-2010 season.

Designed and manufactured by Puma, the new home Spurs football kit features a white shirt with yellow stripes over the shoulders, navy shorts with yellow trim and white socks with yellow trim.

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Photos of Fulham's new home football kit for the 2009-10 season has been leaked.

Fulham's home kit will feature the traditional white and black colours. Designed and manufactured by Nike, Fulham's new home jersey feature a white shirt with black sleeves. To me, the design of the home shirt reminds me of Adidas's Classic series of T-shirts (and football shirts) from the late 1970s-early 1980s (albeit in a different colour scheme that the example shown here).

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Sunderland have unveiled their new away kit for the 2009-2010 season.

Pictured above, Sunderland's new away football kit is white with carbon-coloured sleeves and a yellow trim. The color scheme is completely different than the away strip Sunderland wore during the 08-09 season, which was blue and black.

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Gattuso is the sexiest man in Italy and wants you to love and enjoy the new Italian football kit. Anyway, he's been called up by the national squad to play in the Confederations Cup - and Italy will play the United States, Egypt and Brasil in the group stages.

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Liverpool have been handed a massive boost with the news that Fernando Torres has signed a new contract with the club. The extension of the Spanish forward's contract is a key step forward as manager Rafa Benitez continues to turn his side into genuine title contenders.

The former Atletico Madrid striker has signed a four year extension which will keep him at Anfield until 2014.

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Pictures have been leaked of the new away kit for newly promoted Birmingham City.

Designed and manufactured by Umbro, and sponsored by F&C Investments, the new Birmingham City away kit will be released this summer for the 2009-10 season.

Just like many Premier League clubs next season, Birmingham City has decided to choose a black away kit.

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Another new picture of Man United's new home football kit for the 2009-10 season has been leaked.

While there's been a lot of debate regarding recent pictures of the shirt and whether they're legitimate or not, this one appears to be the real deal.

It's a promotional image from Nike that features the new Manchester United home football kit.

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This weeks lovely lady is Gina from Hertfordshire. She works as a customer care team lader and is a part time model but is also studying to be a personal trainer and hopes to get Gerrard in a good sweat one day.
Gina is a big flirt and loves being in front of the camera especially when she is in her favourite teams football kit.

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Wigan Athletic have unveiled their new home football kit for the 2009-2010 season.

The new kit is designed and manufactured by Vandanel and is sponsored by 188Bet, the same company who is also sponsoring Bolton's football kit for the 2009-2010 season the first time a company has sponsored two clubs in the same season of the Premier League.

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Bolton Wanderers have unveiled their new home kit for the 2009-2010 season, and boy is it awful.

Why on earth they decide not to consult fans regarding these designs before they're released to the public, I don't know. For the 2008-2009 season, the Trotters wore a football shirt that was designed, not on purpose I hope, to look like a sports bra.

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Liverpool FC has officially unveiled their new away football kit for the 2009-10 season. Designed and manufactured by Adidas with Carlsberg as sponsors, the new shirt is currently available for pre-order. Pictured above, the new Liverpool away shirt is black with red and gold trim.

The new away Liverpool football kit has been launched under a new advertising campaign from Adidas entitled "Every Team Needs The 12th Man.

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Pictures have been leaked of Arsenal's new away football kit for the 2009-10 season. Pictured above, the shirt is navy blue with thin light blue pinstripes and is designed and manufactured by Nike. Emirates will continue to be featured as Arsenal's shirt sponsor.

The last time Arsenal wore a navy blue shirt was the 2001-02 season when they wore a navy blue shirt as their third strip.

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Blackburn Rovers have officially unveiled their new away football kit for the 2009-10 season.

The new Blackburn Rovers away kit, designed and manufactured by Umbro and sponsored by Crown Paints, features a white shirt with red and blue trim, and red shorts and socks.

What do you think of the new Blackburn Rovers away kit?

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