Our friends at Umbro are continuing their steak of eccentricities which started with Football Hero. See what they have up their sleeves now
This afternoon, Sunderland’s Darren Bent will debut a very special pair of Umbro Speciali’s in the game against West Ham. As you can see from the pictures featured here, Darren’s Specialis feature the logo from social networking site Twitter, plus the name @DBTheTruth, the name that the striker goes by online. Darren Bent is one of Umbro’s posterboys for the Umbro Speciali, which SER reviewed, alongside Deco and Michael Owen.
Umbro designed the boots for Darren after realizing what a massive fan he was of Twitter – he posts on the site a few times every day, and often takes pictures of things that catch his attention and uploads these as well. At the shoot for the pictures featured here, Darren snapped three different designs that we’d taken along for another pair of boots Umbro are designing for him, and asked his Twitter followers to pick out the one they liked best. He’ll wear the dynamite boots in another upcoming match.
Darren is the highest profile Premiership player to regularly use Twitter, something which famously got him into trouble earlier this year when comments he posted over his protracted move to Sunderland became public. He’s not the only footballer to Tweet though – two weeks ago, Darren was joined by Aston Villa goalscorer James Collins in celebrating scoring the winner through his Twitter posts. If you want to discover which other footballers are Twittering on a regular basis, Umbro have collected the best ones they can find here.
While you’re at it, you can follow SER on twitter as well for updates on all the latest from the beautiful game! @SEReviews
