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Notes
In a £1m,
five-year agreement with Umbro, England reverted to predominantly white shirts from 1984 to 1987,
with a slight but obvious difference through the 1986 World Cup. This plain
white shirt came with shadow stripes, with a navy pinline across the top of the
shoulder, coupled with a navy collar and cuffs, with a red and white stripe
going through the middle.
The Three Lions emblem appeared on the shorts for
the first time, as shown in the photo above, worn by Ray Wilkins against Scotland on May 26th, 1984.
The numbers on the back of the shirt were red, with a
white border, outlined in red, except for the games in ciudad de México in 1985. On those occasions, England reverted back to plain red
numbers in the old Umbro style. One more curious fact about the numbers was
that when Gary Lineker scored four goals against Spain in Madrid in 1987, a
white Umbro diamond was worn at the base of each digit of the red number 10 he
wore on his back. No other players appear to have done the same and there does
not appear to have been any other instance of Umbro logos ever being worn at
the base of the numbers on any England shirt before or since.
What we can confirm is there appears to
be three different type shirts that have been produced:- The White 1984 shirt,
as seen above, that was worn from 1984 to 1987, except when the following two
shirts were produced:- The White 1985, airtex, worn in Mexico against Italy
and in the USA (but not, curiously, against Mexico) in the summer of 1985, and then the
White 1986 World Cup shirt, also airtex, but
without cuffs.
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Matches in Which England Wore the
1984 Home White Uniform |
|
1983-84 |
|
585 |
29-Feb-1984 |
0-2
vs. France |
Parc
des Princes, Paris |
Fr |
AL |
|
586 |
04-Apr-1984 |
1-0
vs. Northern
Ireland |
Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London |
BC |
HW |
|
587 |
02-May-1984 |
0-1
vs. Wales |
Y Cae Ras, Mold Road, Wrecsam |
BC |
AL |
|
588 |
26-May-1984 |
1-1
vs. Scotland |
Hampden Park,
Mount Florida, Glasgow |
BC |
AD |
|
589 |
02-Jun-1984 |
0-2
vs. USSR |
Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London |
Fr |
HL |
|
590 |
10-Jun-1984 |
2-0
vs. Brazil |
Estádio Jornalista Mário Filho,
Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro |
Fr |
AW |
|
Notes |
England
wore the white home shirt with white away
change shorts, and red stockings against Brazil. |
|
592 |
17-Jun-1984 |
0-0
vs. Chile |
Estadio Nacional
de Chile, Ñuñoa,
Santiago |
Fr |
AD |
|
Notes |
England
wore the white home shirt with white away
change shorts, and red stockings against Chile. |
|
1984-85 |
|
593 |
12-Sep-1984 |
1-0
vs. GDR |
Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London |
Fr |
HW |
|
595 |
14-Nov-1984 |
8-0
vs. Turkey |
Inönü
Stadyumu, İstanbul |
WCP |
AW |
|
596 |
27-Feb-1985 |
1-0
vs. Northern
Ireland |
Windsor Park, Belfast |
WCP |
AW |
|
597 |
26-Mar-1985 |
2-1
vs. Republic
of Ireland |
Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London |
Fr |
HW |
|
598 |
01-May-1985 |
0-0
vs. Romania |
Stadionul
23 August, Bucureşti |
WCP |
AD |
|
599 |
22-May-1985 |
1-1
vs. Finland |
Olympiastadion,
Helsinki |
WCP |
AD |
|
600 |
25-May-1985 |
0-1
vs. Scotland |
Hampden Park,
Mount Florida, Glasgow |
TC |
AL |
|
601 |
06-Jun-1985 |
1-2
vs. Italy |
Estadio Azteca, Santa Úrsula, ciudad de México, Mexico |
TC |
NL |
|
602 |
09-Jun-1985 |
0-1
vs. Mexico |
Estadio Azteca, Santa Úrsula, ciudad de México |
TC |
AL |
|
604 |
16-Jun-1985 |
5-0
vs. USA |
The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Exposition Park, Los Angeles |
Fr |
AW |
|
Notes |
England
wore all white, the white home shirt with white away
change shorts, and white stockings against USA. |
|
1985-86 |
|
605 |
11-Sep-1985 |
1-1
vs. Romania |
Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London |
WCP |
HD |
|
607 |
13-Nov-1985 |
0-0
vs. Northern
Ireland |
Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London |
WCP |
HD |
|
608 |
29-Jan-1986 |
4-0
vs. Egypt |
Nasser
Stadium, Cairo |
Fr |
AW |
|
610 |
26-Mar-1986 |
1-0
vs. USSR |
Dinamo Stadion, Tbilisi, Georgia |
Fr |
AW |
|
611 |
23-Apr-1986 |
2-1
vs. Scotland |
Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London |
TC |
HW |
|
1986-87 |
|
620 |
15-Oct-1986 |
3-0
vs. Northern
Ireland |
Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London |
ECP |
HW |
|
621 |
12-Nov-1986 |
2-0
vs. Yugoslavia |
Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London |
ECP |
HW |
|
622 |
18-Feb-1987 |
4-2
vs. Spain |
El Estadio
Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid |
Fr |
AW |
|
Notes |
England
wore all white, the white home shirt with white away
change shorts, and white stockings against Spain. |
|
623 |
01-Apr-1987 |
2-0
vs. Northern
Ireland |
Windsor Park |
ECP |
AW |
|
624 |
29-Apr-1987 |
0-0
vs. Turkey |
Atatürk
Stadyumu, İzmir |
ECP |
AD |
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This shirt was commercially available from it's outset.
Available from The Mail Order Department at Wembley Stadium. For some
unknown reason, the prices were not available in 1984.
Uniforms Index
47 England internationals appeared in
this shirt. Kenny Sansom, who had also worn the previous white shirt (1980)
the most, made 25 appearances in this one, ahead of Bryan Robson and Ray
Wilkins, with 20 each.
19 players won their first cap in the
shirt, including Gary Lineker, who went on to win 80 caps, Tony Adams, who won
66, and Chris Waddle, who won 62.
19 players made their last international
appearance in this shirt, including Ray Wilkins’ 84th cap, Trevor
Francis’ 52nd and Paul Mariner’s 35th.
Of the 5 players that won all their caps
in this shirt, only two (Steve Hunt and Alan Kennedy) appeared more than once,
but their international careers were over after their second game. Hunt had
been substitute in both his appearances.
Top scorer in this shirt was Gary
Lineker, with 11 goals, followed by Bryan Robson, with 5.
7 players scored their first
international goal in the shirt, with Gary Lineker going on to hit 48 for
England.
Tony Woodcock was one of 8 players to
score his last goal for England in this shirt, when he netted for the 16th
time at international level.
Only 3 players scored all their
international goals in this shirt, and of them, only Viv Anderson scored
twice.
All of Bryan Robson’s appearances in
this shirt (20) were as captain. Only two other players skippered their
country in the shirt; Ray Wilkins, on 6 occasions and Terry Butcher, who led
the team out for the first of 7 games as captain.
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