Aston Villa play in the Premiership." Shirt sponsors Manchester Utd: AIG (insurance) Chelsea: Samsung mobile (electronics) Arsenal: Fly Emirates (airline) Portsmouth: OKI (business printing) Liverpool: Carlsberg (brewing) Reading: Kyocera (electronics)...

colours from Notts County. Are there any other clubs who took their kit from different teams?" We might as well start with Arsenal, Neil, who pinched their dark red shirts from Nottingham Forest. "In 1895 a selection of Forest players joined the squad,...

Manchester City, which won the FA Cup that year. Over the years Umbro have also produced kits for major teams including: Arsenal, Club Bolivar, Cruz Azul, Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur, Chelsea, C.A.Independiente , Liverpool, Aston Villa, Leeds...

of their tops for the 1923 Challenge Cup Final. Back home in Britain, numbered shirts didn't appear until August 1928 when Arsenal and Chelsea ran out for the new season, but that little experiment only lasted two League games and they didn't become...

1960's away signed by Hurst, Peters, Martin and Redknapp Early 1960's home number 6 1970's 1975 FA Cup quarter-final (Arsenal) 1975 FA Cup final 1976 Charity Shield 1976-80 admiral home and away 1976 Cup Winners Cup final match worn (by Paddon) number 8...

telecoms. As well as Bayern Munich, Real Madrid ( Siemens Mobile) Chelsea ( Samsung Mobile) Manchester United (Vodafone Arsenal ( Telefonica's 02) FC Porto ( Portugal Telecom) and Borussia Dortmund ( E.On) are among the teams on our list of the most...

support Man United earlier, or Real Madrid of late, you were footballing dork. The slightly discerning always fell for Arsenal. But back then, it was much like rock music much, much before MTV came home. You were to fall in love with football just as...

Arsenal's new strip for their last season at Highbury may not be to everyone's taste but expert John Devlin is a redcurrant fan When Second Division Woolwich Arsenal moved into their state-of-the-art Arsenal Stadium in 1913 it cost around £10m (in...

little to limit the use of official club logos. In 1990, following the National League Baseball Association example, Arsenal were one of the first clubs to register its name, to stop traders outside the football ground selling the club logo at an...

most people now are encouraged to think, for example, that Vodafone somehow 'stands for' Manchester United these days. Arsenal for many years had only one shirt sponsor, JVC, before moving on to Sony. Today more and more high tech industries have moved...