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Long navy blue shorts, with navy blue drawstring. An inner red shard and an outer white shard running down lower front side of each seam, separated by a thin navy blue stripe. 'UMBRO' in large capitalised white lettering on left thigh. Embroidered emblem on right thigh, with white registered trademark underneath left-hand side of emblem and 'ENGLAND' in capitalised white lettering below it. White number, with red border in the same font as on the shirt, above the emblem on right thigh.

White socks, with navy blue turnover, two red hoops across each. Navy blue emblem on front of each sock, with 'ENGLAND' in capitalised navy blue lettering below it and 'UMBRO' in large capitalised navy blue lettering beneath.

• A long-sleeved version of the shirt was also worn. The cuffs were navy blue, with a white stripe near the edge and there were no panels on the sleeves.

3 - Tony Adams, Darren Anderton, David Batty (1 sub), Sol Campbell, Paul Ince, Graeme Le Saux, Michael Owen (2 sub), Paul Scholes, Alan Shearer

• Of the seven players who started all three games in which the white shirt was worn, only Adams, Campbell and Shearer stayed on the pitch for the full five hours, with Shearer also taking part in the penalty shootout against Argentina.

• 14 members of England's World Cup squad appeared in this shirt.

• None of them were making their international debuts, and no players won their last cap during this tournament.

2 - Michael Owen, Alan Shearer (1 Pen.)

1 - Paul Scholes

• Both Owen and Shearer also netted in the penalty shootout against Argentina.

• Owen became his country's youngest ever World Cup scorer when he came on as a substitute to equalise against Romania, but it was his goal against Argentina that alerted the world to the 18-year-old's lightning pace and deadly finishing.

• Shearer had been the top scorer at the 1996 European Championship and he was to net twice more in the 2000 tournament.

3 - Alan Shearer

• Shearer skippered a squad without a single previous World Cup appearance to their names, though eight of them had played in the 1996 European Championship.

England wore this Umbro strip, as singularly unattractive as the companion away uniform, in three of their four matches at the World Cup 1998 final tournament in France.

In the last of those three matches, the round of 16 clash with Argentina, they wore all white, substituting the white shorts from the away uniform for the navy blue shorts of the home uniform. This looked fine, although a close inspection would reveal that the number font on the shorts was different to that of the shirts, due to it being from the red uniform.

It was a tournament that began with high hopes, but ended with the almost inevitable penalty shootout heartache. Romania were the first to expose England's weaknesses, which left them needing to beat Argentina for a place in the quarter-finals. A classic encounter followed, Michael Owen scored a superb goal, David Beckham was given his marching orders for a petulant kick and England ended up on the back foot, before it all ended in tears once again.