He’s loving jerseys instead, or something
Robbie Williams is best known for his musical career, first with Take That and then as an extremely successful solo artist, but he has always had an enormous love of football, and Port Vale in particular.
He wrote the theme song for FIFA 2000, called ‘It’s Only Us’ – and it’s a bit of a banger actually – as well as coming to an agreement with EA Sports that Port Vale would be included in the game. They were the only third tier team featured at the time.
But Williams has gone one step further now after helping to design his club’s new home and goalkeeper kits for the 2020/21 season, and they are rather interesting to say the least.
According to Footy Headlines, Williams’ idea for the kit was developed by Port Vale before eventually being approved by the club’s manager, John Askey.
It features a V-pattern that goes down the front of the shirts, in the club’s traditional white, black and yellow colours.
In a nice touch, the letter W, N and E are woven into the back of the shirt, a nod to their manager’s mantra of “Want. Need. Expect.”, with the club saying in their release:
“Fans will see the letters W, N, E woven into the design on the back of the shirts echoing the Gaffer’s ‘Want, Need, Expect’ mantra: If we WANT to win, we NEED to prepare properly and get everything right and then we can EXPECT to win.”
The kits were initially set to be launched at a Williams concert at Vale Park in June, but with that postponed due to a little something called Covid-19, it has been released through more traditional outlets.
