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      | Description | 
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      | White short-sleeved shirt, with 
		alternating square 
		rhombus shadow stripes; one column consisting of a 
		continuous string of overlapping shapes of three different sizes, 
		increasing and then decreasing in size, all bordered with a thick dark 
		line, and the next column consisting of the same shapes, except that the 
		medium-sized rhombus has five dark diagonal stripes rising from left to 
		right across it when above the largest rhombus, and four when below it. 
		The largest rhombus in each column is adjacent to the smallest in the 
		next. Navy-blue winged collar, with small white stripes in a strip near 
		the outer edge. Large white upside-down triangular insert beneath the 
		neck, 
		with thin navy-blue stripes, split down the middle, with a navy-blue button 
		fastening via a loop of navy-blue material attached to the left side of 
		the insert. Navy-blue diagonal stripes rising from left to right in a 
		strip near the edge of the sleeves, with two navy-blue concentric 
		diamonds after every fourth stripe. Embroidered emblem on left breast, 
		with 
		
		 'FIFA WORLD CUP' and then 'ITALY '90' 
		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 same 
		font as on the previous Umbro England shirts, with a white 
		border, outlined in red. 
		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. White numbers on right thigh in the 
		same font as on the 1986 World Cup and 1988 European Championship shorts, with embroidered emblem 
		underneath. 
	   White socks, with 
		navy-blue turnover, three white lions on each. |  
      | Most Appearances | 
7 - Gary Lineker, Chris 
Waddle (1 sub), Des Walker 
		
		The only outfield player who 
		didn't wear the shirt during the tournament was Steve Hodge (his number 
		18 shirt 
		is pictured to the right above).
		Unsurprisingly, no players 
		made their international debut in the shirt.
		Terry Butcher won his 77th 
		and last England cap in the semi-final, against West Germany. |  
      | Top Scorers | 
4 - Gary Lineker (2 pens) 
3 - David Platt 
1 - Mark Wright 
		
		Lineker's goals extended his 
		World Cup scoring record for England to ten goals in two tournaments.
		The penalties were England's 
		first since 1986.
		Neither Platt nor Wright had 
		previously scored for England.
		Wright's goal, against 
		Egypt, which put England into the last 16 of the tournament, was the 
		only goal of his international career. |  
      | Captains | 3 - 
	Terry Butcher 
	2 - 
	Bryan Robson 
		
		For the second successive 
		World Cup, Robson began the tournament as captain, and just as in 
		Mexico, an injury in the second game meant an early flight home for him.
		Butcher took over the 
		armband for the rest of the tournament, with Peter Shilton deputising 
		for the two games that Butcher missed. Shilton, of course, being a 
		goalkeeper, did not wear this shirt. |  
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      |  
 This shirt is instantly recognisable as the one 
worn with such pride by the 1990 World Cup semi-finalists, in the most 
successful English campaign ever on foreign soil. 
It began with little sign of England making a big 
impression. Facing the Irish and the Dutch, both of whom had humiliated England 
at the 1988 European Championship in Germany, revenge was not forthcoming 
against either, but England managed to secure draws against both. A single goal 
victory against Egypt took them out of the group stage and what followed were 
three exhausting knockout matches in a nine-day period. Each went to extra-time, 
where Bobby Robson's battlers showed great courage, before their luck finally 
ran out against West Germany, after England's first ever penalty shootout. 
The shirt was only slightly modified from
the one introduced in 
March of the World Cup year. There were just two differences. World Cup 
labelling was added beneath the emblem on the left breast and a number was 
positioned on the right thigh, a change to the previous two tournaments, where 
it had been placed on the left thigh. Waiting in the wings were two change kits, 
but neither was called for as England wore their full home strip in all seven 
matches, stained with Gascoigne's tears, but heralding the dawn of a brave new 
era for English football. 
The 
signed shirt at the top left of the page was worn by Bryan Robson when his 
tournament came to a premature end against the Netherlands. It appears by kind permission of the 
	  Neville Evans National Football Shirt Collection (curator Simon Shakeshaft). 
Steve Hodge was issued with the number 18 
shirt in the other shirt picture at the top of the page. He did not appear in 
the tournament, due to injury. This shirt is part of Richard Clarke's Morrell 
Collection. |  
  
  
      
    | Matches in which England wore the 
        1990 World Cup Home White Uniform |  
	  
    | 658 | 11 June 1990 - 
	
	
	England 
	1
	
	
	
	Republic of Ireland 1  
	
	
	[1-0] Stadio Comunale Sant'Elia, Sant'Elia, Casteddu (35,238)
 | Lineker Sheedy
 | ND |  
    | 659 | 16 June 1990 - 
	
	
	
	
	
	Netherlands 0 England 
	0 [0-0] Stadio Comunale Sant'Elia, Sant'Elia, Casteddu (35,267)
 |  | ND |  
    | 660 | 21 June 1990 - 
	
	
	England 1
	
	Egypt 0 [0-0] Stadio Comunale Sant'Elia, Sant'Elia, Casteddu (34,959)
 | Wright | NW |  
    | 661 | 26 June 1990 - 
	
	
	England 1
	
	Belgium 0  
	
	
	[0-0]ᴭᵀ Stadio Renato Dall' Ara, Barca, Bologna (34,520)
 | Platt | NW |  
    | 662 | 1 July 1990 - 
	
	
	
	Cameroon 2
	England 
	3  
	
	
	[0-1]ᴭᵀ Stadio San Paolo, Fuorigrotta, Napoli
    
	(55,205)
 | Kundé (pen), Ekéké Platt, Lineker 
		  (2 pens)
 | NW |  
    | 663 | 4 July 1990 - 
	
	
	
	West Germany 1
	England 
	1  
	
	
	[0-0]ᴭᵀ 4-3 on penalty-kicks
 Stadio delle Alpi, Vallette, Torino
    
	(62,628)
 | Brehme Lineker
 | ND |  
    | 664 | 7 July 1990 - 
	
	
	
	Italy 2
	England 
	1  
	
	
	[0-0] Stadio San Nicola, Strada 
	Torrebella, Bari
    
	(51,426)
 | Baggio, Schillaci (pen) Platt
 | AL |  
 
        
 
          
          
            
    | England's Record wearing the 1990 World Cup 
    Shirt |  
    | Type | P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | FTS | CS | FAv | AAv | Pts % | W/L |  
    | Away | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 1.00 | 2.00 | 0.00 | -1 |  
    | Neutral | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 4 | +3 | 1 | 3 | 1.167 | 0.667 | 75.0 | +3 |  
    | Total | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 6 | +2 | 1 | 3 | 1.143 | 0.857 | 64.3 | +2 |  
        ____________________ CG/PY/JB/GI |  |