Town striker Connor Wickham is one of 11 players modelling the new England kit on the FA’s website. The England senior side will wear the new strip for the first time on Friday when they face Bulgaria in their opening Euro 2012 qualifier.

England U17 international Wickham isn’t the only non-senior player featured alongside the likes of Wayne Rooney, Theo Walcott, Adam Johnson and Joe Hart, Jade Bailey, a 14-year-old England Women’s U17, Eric Dier, a 16-year-old defender in Sporting Lisbon’s youth set-up and Arsenal’s Jack Wilshere are also part of the campaign.

To see Wickham in the new England kit click here. To read FA stuff about new fabrics, revolutionary designs etc, click here.

Wickham, who is only a couple of weeks away from returning from his ankle injury, scored the winning goal as England won the European U17 Championships in Liechtenstein in May.

Photo: Action Images

Intrinsic added 13:17 - Sep 1 Ugh. Photoshop disaster.
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Gilesy added 13:20 - Sep 1 Never has human kind's ape-ancestry been more apparent than with this photo of Rooney.
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Town_Boy added 13:26 - Sep 1 The kit looks like a T-shirt from Topman shop...
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blue_floyd added 13:26 - Sep 1 I won't be buying it. You buy an England shirt for the World Cup, then straight afterwards they release a new one. The FA are just a bunch of money grabbers.
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wellhungphil added 13:32 - Sep 1 Wickham for Ireland!!
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bluelady added 13:36 - Sep 1 blue-lloyd i agree its a disgrace, spent a fortune getting my son the 'new kit' ready for the world cup, its not even dirty yet and they are changing.
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bluelady added 13:39 - Sep 1 but i have to add that just shows how highly this lad is thought of doesnt it......... a couple of weeks - on the Bench for Pompey then?????
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Plums added 13:41 - Sep 1 What's 'new' about that kit? Disgraceful rip off of the fans who've just shelled out for the one which was 'tailored by Umbro'.
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Back_The_Boss added 13:41 - Sep 1 Not a big favourite of that shirt. Wickham will be wearing that for the "main" team soon. Rooney and Wickham are the future.
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fifeblue added 13:42 - Sep 1 The kit is truly awful on many counts. The shirt looks like it comes from Matalan and the shorts are just the wrong colour. England's colours are white and NAVY blue, not this ghastly mid-blue. The designer and those who accpeted it need their heads tested.
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BornDeleuze added 13:48 - Sep 1 Rooney and Walcott weren't really there were they?
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bleedblue added 13:49 - Sep 1 Definately going to partner Rooney come the next World Cup, and perhaps even at the Euros????
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ShefTractor added 14:19 - Sep 1 Hideously bad photoshopping to match the shirt then
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arc added 14:26 - Sep 1 I'm glad to see that the blue shorts are back and that the stupid collars are gone. But, oh me oh my, what an utterly ridiculous photograph and what utterly terrible photoshopping.
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blackheath_blue added 14:27 - Sep 1 i liked the current (now old) kit - that'll be me picking it up for a bargain tenner in jb sports then now the new one is out for all the numpties that buy each and every kit. light blue has been used for kits before - used to be our 2nd (3rd?) kit going way back and i also remember a light blue kit during the Taylor era...
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campowasgod added 14:36 - Sep 1 Connor nearly hides the guy behind even when he is kneeling down !!!! Great for him - shows he is highly thought of . The photoshoot surely did not happen - it looks like a painting. Is Wembley really in the middle of the countryside ?
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Martus added 14:45 - Sep 1 I thought it looked good and then i looked at the back. WTF is that multicoloured st georges flags? why? it looks stupid! And a pink GK shirt HA! Harts faces says it all.
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OnlyOneSirBobby added 15:03 - Sep 1 once again, another awful england shirt...when will they release a decent one....umbro are cr@p!! but on a more important note...definitely shows how much connor is thought of across the country, excited to see him back in blue soon!!
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Raedwald_625 added 15:15 - Sep 1 Very strange photo. Gilsey, thank god for the last word. Gotta b PC
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hampstead_blue added 15:38 - Sep 1 Awful photo. It's like a Disney Pixar image.
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WickedBlue added 15:53 - Sep 1 Only good thing I can say about at least there are no bloody swirls or other gay markings. Don't we change our shirts this year? Hope we go for a plain Blue shirt like the one from the 72/73 season. Have to say the current one is the second worst kit we have ever had with the worst one being that one that ran out of dye......
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sirbenofmorlingshire added 15:58 - Sep 1 Wasn't the last England kit only just released???? (Maybe I'm out of touch having not bought any kit for years - apart from bargin basement town ones to wear at the gym). Looks bloody awful and reminds me of my middle school kit from the 80's - perhaps they should worry more about the cartoons who wore the last one in South Africa rather than showing off a new one.

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zippyrainbow added 16:04 - Sep 1 Wouldn't be caught wearing one after the fiasco of South Africa. Overpaid prima donna's !!!!
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Upbeat~ added 16:13 - Sep 1 Rooney: still world class despite the World Cup. Good to see Connor feature in such a high calibre (in terms of players, not the shot itself) photo-shoot. A definite one for the future and hopefully this season he can achieve his true potential - or at least help us reach the playoffs.
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sirbenofmorlingshire added 16:33 - Sep 1 Full credit to the FA's graphics team who (as most have spotted) have made a wonderful pixar photoshop mess of the official photo... but also to the genius who pictured the new kit on the FA website on a completely white background so curious onlookers like me can't even bloomin' see it properly! Perhaps a black background would have been a better choice! http://englandstore.thefa.com/stores/fa/products/product_maxzoom.aspx?maximage=p P.S. You may also note on the FA website the kit is listed as the 10/11 kit, so expect a new one real soon I reckon!

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