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2000-2001作客落場版球衣



Just like the home players shirt and the away players shirt from season 2000/01, the difference on this players shirt lies in:
Left: Replica shirt has thinner UMBRO rhombus and the circled R is smaller and closer to the centre of the rhombus.
Right: Players Shirt has bolded UMBRO rhombus and the circled R is bigger and closer to the right-end tip of the rhombus.
Recently I have heard about some guys "make up" the bigger circled R by themselves through un-stitching the replica version circled-R threads and then restitching a bigger one by computer embroidery. Note that the UMBRO rhombus is also bolded on the players shirt. That means, there is less space left in the filings area within the rhombus outline. Don't be misled by just the presence of bigger circled-R.


However, this third players shirt differs from the replica shirt counterpart in one more aspect:
Left: on a replica shirt, the outline threads of the club crest is less bolded and you can see that the red-devil is slimmer.
Right: on a players shirt, the outline threads of the club crest is more bolded and you can see that the red-devil is fatter.


Overall speaking, the players shirt is having bolder UMBRO, registered mark and club crest than replica shirt's.

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2000-2001作客守門員落場版球衣


First of all, there are never replica version manufactured for this silver colour goalkeeper shirt.


Unlike the other 2000-02 players shirts, this goalkeeper players shirt has the small registered-R mark like the replica shirts.


Van Der Gouw is a big-man wearing the size of XXXL!!!
There are no replicas available up to the size of XXXL.


As usual, the Champions League patch is the velveteen material type, ironed onto the shirt.

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2000-2001作客落場版球衣(Centenary White)




2001-02 Premier League Version


2001 FA Charity Shield Version


It is not ridiculous for me to reverse the inner side of the shirt. The players shirt doesn't have the innovative reversible feature like the replica shirt. The inner side of the white-side is still a white side!! Thus, the centenary players shirt is a irreversisble shirt.


And owing to the irreversible nature of the players shirt, the inner side embroidered effect of the UMBRO logo and the club crest etc, can be see on the inner white side of the shirt.


Left:On the reversible replica shirt, the content tag is located at the golden patch instead of the rear black area.
Right: On the players shirt, the content tag is located a bit closer to the rear of the shirt and it's on the black area.


The white centenary players shirt has the collar information printed on the white surface inner-collar instead of the gold surface inner-collar for the replica shirt.


This seasons' players shirts of Man Utd have reverted to adopt the fuse-on type Premier League badges instead of the transfer type of last year.

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2000-2001作客落場版球衣(Centenary Golden)





2001-02 Champions League Version


Just like what I did for the white centenary players shirt, I am happy to reverse the inner side of this golden players shirt to show you all that the shirt is not reversible and it's made of one layer only.


The quality of the players shirt is absolutely better than the golden side replica shirt.
Left: UMBRO logo and motif is made of thin plastic layer felt on the shirt surface on replica shirt.
Right: UMBRO logo and motif is embroidered into the shirt surface on players shirt.


Left: Centenary circle and crest are made of thin plastic layer felt on the shirt surface on replica shirt.
Right: Centenary circle and crest are embroidered into the shirt surface on players shirt.  


From the inner side of the players shirt, the embroidery effects are more conspicuous.


Top: Replica shirt has the ---afone sponsor ironed on the shirt surface made of thin plastic layer.
Middle: Players shirt has the ---faone sponsor made of raised-flock-embossment.
Bot---: From the view of the inner side of the players shirt, the effect of embossment is clearer.


Top: Replica shirt MUST have the "usage timing" tag in the rear-middle of the backside of the shirt.
Bot---: However, for player shirts, there are mixed batches of shirts with differing "usage tag" position. The usage tag can be located on one side (like the picture shown).




Or the "usage tag" can be in the middle too, just like the replicas.
Clearly, this implies that there should be more than one batch of player shirts produced and different batches lead to differing "usage tag" positioning.


The Champions League players shirt of course shows the adoption of siliver Champions League badge ironed onto the arm.


Finally, the players shirts has the single-layer-one-piece fuse-on type numbers and names, and there are no Premier League lions logo on the numbers.