With kit designers in the early 80s seemingly falling all over themselves to dress football teams in the most garish eye-sores imaginable, Newcastle managed to dodge a bullet with their first collaboration with Umbro. Keeping the thicker stripe design that they'd inherited from Bukta, Umbro added their own logo down the sides of the sleeves and shorts - commonplace now, but something of a novelty at the time. They also gave the club its first taste of the really floppy collar by again taking the concept Bukta had introduced in the previous kit and enlarging it. Most interestingly, this was also Newcastle's first kit to include a sponsor on the chest, with Newcastle Breweries' famous blue star starting the first of its two stints on the shirt.
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