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Description |
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White shirt, with wide shadow
stripes. Navy blue v-neck, with thin white stripe in middle and two thin red stripes
either side of it. White hem on sleeves. Thin navy blue stripe along
shoulder. Embroidered emblem on left breast, with
'FIFA WORLD CUP' and then 'MEXICO'86'
(without a space between) centralised in capitalised navy blue lettering
underneath. Two embroidered navy blue
concentric diamonds on right breast, with 'umbro' in navy blue
lower-case lettering underneath. Red numbers on reverse, in the old Umbro
font last worn by England on the previous year's tour.
Navy blue shorts, with white
drawstring. White
seams, with two thin navy blue stripes, each edged with a thin outer red stripe.
White numbers on left thigh in the same font as on the reverse of the
shirt, with two embroidered
white concentric diamonds underneath, and 'umbro' in white
lower-case lettering beneath them. Embroidered emblem on right thigh.
White socks.
Solid navy blue diamonds across tops, edged with two red hoops. |
Variations |
- For the first two
games, there was no World Cup lettering underneath the emblem on the shirt,
nor was there a number on the shorts.
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Most Appearances |
7 - Terry
Butcher, Glenn Hoddle, Kenny Sansom
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Nineteen England
internationals played in the seven games.
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With the period being such an important
one for the national team, no players made their international debuts in the
shirt.
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No one ended their international career in it, either.
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Top Scorers |
6 -
Gary Lineker
3 - Mark Hateley
2 - Peter Beardsley
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Lineker's
six
goals won him the World Cup’s Golden Boot.
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Hateley's goals in the two World
Cup warm-up games in North America, were his last three for his country.
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Beardsley's goals were his
first two for England.
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Captains |
3 -
Bryan Robson
1 - Ray Wilkins
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Bryan Robson was captain until his dislocated shoulder ended his World Cup.
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Ray Wilkins
captained England for the last time, against Canada.
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The goalkeeper, Peter Shilton took over the captaincy for the remainder of the World Cup after
Robson’s injury but not, of course, in this shirt.
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It was a confident England that headed for
Mexico in 1986 via the USA and Canada. They had been unbeaten for almost a
year and a lot of thought had gone into their attire for the upcoming
tournament.
This was a lighter shirt, but different from the
Airtex version worn
in Mexico, the previous year. The shadow stripes were thicker and the
removal of the cuffs offered more ventilation.
There were three warm-up games, beginning with an
unofficial 4-1 defeat of South Korea at Denver, Colorado on 14th May.
England wore all white, using the shorts from their red World Cup uniform.
For the tournament, the finishing touches were added. These
were the World Cup
lettering underneath the emblem, a first
for England, and the addition of the squad number on the left thigh, which
was a change to the positioning from the previous World Cup, when it had
been on the right thigh.
England got off to a slow start. They lost two
captains
(Robson through injury and Wilkins to a red card) and it took them three
games to score a goal, but once Gary Lineker had broken his duck, there was
no stopping him as he became the first Englishman to win the prestigious
Golden Boot as the World Cup's top scorer.
The white shirt was worn in every game, but when
it came to the crunch clash with Argentina in the quarter-finals, England
were kitted out in a unique combination. The
pale blue shorts
and socks from one of England's change kits were worn with the white
shirt.
It was not a lucky combination, unlike Diego
Maradona's sleight of hand in giving the South Americans the lead. His
second goal was sheer brilliance and England were on their way home.
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Matches in Which England Wore the
1986 World Cup White Uniform |
1985-86 |
Notes |
England did not display World Cup labelling or
numbered shorts for the following two games: |
612 |
17 May 1986 |
3-0
vs. Mexico,
The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Exposition Park, Los Angeles,
USA |
Fr |
NW |
613 |
24 May 1986 |
1-0
vs. Canada,
Swangard Stadium, Burnaby, British Columbia |
Fr |
AW |
World Cup Finals 1986 |
614 |
3 June 1986 |
0-1
vs. Portugal,
Estadio Tecnológico, Monterrey |
WCF |
NL |
615 |
6 June 1986 |
0-0
vs. Morocco,
Estadio Tecnológico, Monterrey |
ND |
616 |
11 June 1986 |
3-0
vs. Poland,
Estadio Universitário de Nuevo León, Monterrey |
NW |
617 |
18 June 1986 |
3-0
vs. Paraguay,
Estadio Azteca, Santa Úrsula, ciudad de México |
NW |
618 |
22 June 1986 |
1-2
vs. Argentina,
Estadio Azteca, Santa Úrsula, ciudad de México |
NL |
Notes |
England wore the white World Cup 1986 shirt with
the
pale blue World Cup 1986 shorts and socks against Argentina. |
England's Record wearing the 1986 World Cup
Shirt |
Type |
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS
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CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts % |
W/L |
Away |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
+1 |
0 |
1 |
1.00 |
0.00 |
100.0 |
+1 |
Neutral |
6 |
3 |
1 |
2 |
10 |
3 |
+7 |
2 |
4 |
1.667 |
0.50 |
58.3 |
+1 |
Total |
7 |
4 |
1 |
2 |
11 |
3 |
+8 |
2 |
5 |
1.571 |
0.429 |
64.3 |
+2 |
 
This is the style of shirt
worn by England in the World Cup warm-up games i.e. without lettering underneath
the emblem.
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CG/GI/PY/JB
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