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	This shirt was part of England's first ever change kit, worn against 
	Germany at White Hart Lane, Tottenham.  
	The tradition was for the home team to change 
	colours when entertaining a touring team with the same colour shirts, so whenever England visited Austria and Germany earlier 
	in the century, it was their hosts who switched from their usual 
	white shirts.  
	St. Blaize made the shirt and it was accompanied 
	by white shorts and the same black socks, with two white hoops across the 
	tops and a thick white calf band, worn with the first-choice white shirts. 
	The first two photos from the left, above, 
	are of the shirt worn by a 20-year-old Sir Stanley Matthews, on only his 
	third international appearance. It is reproduced here by kind permission 
	from
	the Neville Evans National Football Shirt 
	Collection (curator: Simon Shakeshaft). The other shirt was worn by 
	George Male and includes one of the multi-coloured caps awarded to each 
	player. |