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Navy-blue shorts, with white drawstring. A white strip comprising upper-third of seams, with navy-blue diagonal stripes rising from right to left, with two navy-blue concentric diamonds after every fourth stripe. Small diagonal red panel underneath white strip. Large white triangle, with base running down middle of seam, underneath red panel, with thin navy-blue stripes. Two embroidered white concentric diamonds on left thigh, with 'umbro' in white lower-case lettering underneath. Embroidered emblem on right thigh.

White socks, with navy-blue turnover, three white lions on each.

• A long-sleeved version of the shirt was also used in seven of the games. The cuffs were navy blue, with small white stripes in a strip near the edge.
• For the games played in the 1990 World Cup tournament, 'FIFA WORLD CUP ITALY '90' was displayed in navy blue directly underneath the emblem.
• For all of the games played in 1992, the lettering underneath the concentric diamonds logo on both the shirts and shorts, was capitalised i.e. 'UMBRO'. There was also a navy-blue registered trademark i.e. ® placed above the gap between the 'R' and the 'O'.
• For the games played in the 1992 European Championship tournament, 'EURO 92 SWEDEN' was displayed in navy blue directly underneath the emblem. The number was also worn in the middle of the chest in red, in the same font as on the back of the shirt, with a white border, outlined in red, and the player's surname was worn above the number on the back, in capitalised plain-red lettering (pink characters were unused).

• White numbers in the same font as on the 1986 World Cup shorts were worn on the right thigh of the shorts, above the emblem, for each of the 1990 World Cup tournament fixtures.

• White numbers in the same font as was to be used on England's 1993 white shirts, were worn on the right thigh of the shorts, above the emblem, for the three tournament fixtures in the 1992 European Championship.

29 - Des Walker

27 - Gary Lineker (1 sub)

26 - Stuart Pearce, David Platt (5 sub)

• 17 players won their first cap in the shirt, including Alan Shearer, who went on to win 63 caps, Martin Keown, who won 43 and David Batty (42).

• Bryan Robson made his ninetieth and last England appearance in the shirt, one of 16 players to win their last cap in it.

• Others included Gary Lineker, who made his eightieth appearance, and Terry Butcher, who bowed out after his 77^th in the 1990 World Cup semi-final.

• Four players won all of their England caps in the shirt, with Keith Curle and David Hirst making three appearances each, whilst Andy Gray played for a mere 45 minutes (the first half in Poland).

17 - Gary Lineker (4 pens)

8 - David Platt (1 pen)

3 - Steve Bull, Paul Gascoigne, Stuart Pearce

• Lineker had also been top scorer in the 1984 and '87 white shirts.

• Seven players scored their first England goal in the shirt; Alan Shearer went on to score thirty, David Platt (27) and Stuart Pearce (five).

• Alan Smith scored both of his international goals in this shirt, whilst three other players scored once only.

13 - Gary Lineker

6 - Bryan Robson

5 - Terry Butcher

4 - Stuart Pearce

1 - Mark Wright

• Lineker was captain for both the first and last time in this shirt, out of a total of 18 captaincies overall.

• Pearce and Wright also captained them for the first time. Wright never received the honour again, but Pearce went on to lead them out ten times.

• Butcher and Robson both captained their country for the last time in this shirt. In Robson's case, it was the last of 65 games as captain.

This smart new England kit heralded the beginning of the 1990s and it was to take its place in the renaissance of English football..

The 1980s had seen the national game sink to an all-time low, with hooliganism and disasters driving people away. England's performances in the 1990 World Cup in Italy, which saw them reaching the semi-finals for the first time on foreign soil, all the while displaying a great fighting spirit, catapulted English football onto the front pages of national newspapers.The 1980s had seen the national game sink to an all-time low, with hooliganism and disasters driving people away. England's performances in the 1990 World Cup in Italy, which saw them reaching the semi-finals for the first time on foreign soil, all the while displaying a great fighting spirit, catapulted English football onto the front pages of national newspapers.

Paul Gascoigne's tears after England's agonising defeat was the abiding memory for a new army of fans. The cobwebs of recent history were blown away as English clubs were allowed back into European competitions following a five-year ban and the wave of optimism continued with the foundation of the Premier League in 1992.

England bade farewell to Bobby Robson, and Graham Taylor took over the helm. It was a struggle to reach the European Championship finals in Sweden, and once again, the continent's major tournament couldn't bring out the best in England. Taylor found himself managing a transitional period for the national side, with the international retirements of key players such as Lineker, Butcher and Robson coinciding with a serious injury to the rising star of Paul Gascoigne.

As Umbro prepared their latest design amongst the growing fashion of football kit embellishments, the wheels were about to come off Taylor's team bus before he'd even got into second gear...

The shirts in the first two photos (top left) look identical, but the first (worn by Gary Lineker against Brazil in 1990, the style's first full international outing) has lower-case Umbro lettering (as in the first picture to the left of this text) and the second (worn by Carlton Palmer in 1992) has upper-case Umbro lettering (second picture to the left of this text). Both shirts appear by kind permission of the National Football Shirt Collection (England Match Shirts), also part of the Neville Evans Collection (curator Simon Shakeshaft).

Next picture along is signed by Gary Lineker and it is believed to have been worn against Poland in 1990. This shirt is part of Richard Clarke's Morrell Collection.