Studs Up

We’ve decided the winners of the limited edition “Studs Up For Umbro” collaborative t-shirt featuring one of my illustrations on the trademark “Tailored By Umbro” t-shirt blank. Umbro have been on a tear lately, putting out some amazing football gear, so it was brilliant to work with them.

The shirt was meant to be made available to accompany England’s World Cup run but their rather early exit meant we decided to just give them away to you lot via the always-entertaining caption competition. I just got my samples and it came out rather spiffily, I love the fact that Dr. Football’s been given a white paintjob since… well… he can’t really wear a shirt.

The list of winning captions is split between this post and the one over on the Umbro Blog, so check to see if your submission made it and you’ll be getting an email from Umbro to arrange delivery. Or, you can email Umbro directly if you’ve one to arrange it yourself!

Congratulations to the winners!

Caption #1 WINNERS:

1) “I’m sorry son, but your real father is Peter Crouch…”

2) “It’s not all bad news kid, Heskey will still only be 36 for Brazil 2014″

3) “Chin up, Rooney was under-19 once!”

4) “Have they told you you look just like Robert Green?”

5) “YOU’RE crying?! I just spend a weeks’ wages on these shirts!”

6) “I’m sorry son, John Terry is your real father.”

7) “Sorry, you don’t have a patch on Gazza, mate. Still, plenty of years to practice. The octopus says 2066 is our year.”

“I’ve got two tickets to England v San Marino… we might even score!”

9) Kid: *Sobbing* “H…How could we lose so badly?…we had Rooney, Stevie G. and Capello…I…I had so much hope”
Guy: “Look kid, It’s called disappointment …you gotta suck it up and put it into perspective”
Kid: *Still sobbing* “Perspective? What do you mean?”
Guy: “Yeah, for example…I used to have hair… and a neck”

10) “Your mum and I are splitting up. She blames my joblessness and
erectile dysfunction. I blame the Jabulani.”

11) “Sorry, son. The FA’s just named Emile Heskey as England striker in perpetuity. Also, Manuel Almunia’s English passport came through.”

12) “Cheer up son. At least Frank Lampard got a goal for England.”

13) DAD: “It’s good that you learn to deal with disappointment at this age… you’ll be prepared for Brazil 2014″

CAPTION #2 WINNERS:



1) “Good news son! Since England is not in the final… I changed our tickets for these ones of Toy Story 3″

2) “ever mind, I’ve just got us England memberships. Now we can go and watch ALL of the qualifiers together!”