OB1
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This is Umbro's description of themselves on their website:
Umbro, Ltd., a subsidiary of NIKE, Inc., is the original Manchester based football brand that invented sportswear and sports tailoring. Umbro’s first major football kit was made for Manchester City in 1934, a kit they won the FA Cup in. Today, the company combines its heritage in sports tailoring with modern football culture to create groundbreaking and iconic football apparel, footwear and equipment that blend performance and style.
There's no way nike would move City's kits to the parent company brand because they know thatthe one football team in the whole effing world that absolutely should wear Umbro is City. The Humphrey's were even on the board of directors of City once upon a time. I doubt that any football club in the world has a stronger association with a brand of sportswear.
Umbro, Ltd., a subsidiary of NIKE, Inc., is the original Manchester based football brand that invented sportswear and sports tailoring. Umbro’s first major football kit was made for Manchester City in 1934, a kit they won the FA Cup in. Today, the company combines its heritage in sports tailoring with modern football culture to create groundbreaking and iconic football apparel, footwear and equipment that blend performance and style.
There's no way nike would move City's kits to the parent company brand because they know thatthe one football team in the whole effing world that absolutely should wear Umbro is City. The Humphrey's were even on the board of directors of City once upon a time. I doubt that any football club in the world has a stronger association with a brand of sportswear.