Robbie Savage is going to attempt to set the new World Record for wearing the most football league shirts at once as part of a new Club 72 initiative for Npower. Although Savage officially retired last year, he is teaming up with the npower Club 72 group this year in an attempt to take home the record for wearing the most npower football league at once.
Savage has played professional football for the last 17 years, so in reality there are not too many colors that he has not actually worn on the field, but with Crawley Town and AFC Wimbledon joining the Premiere League this season you can bet that at least two of the shirts are going to look new to him.
Outside of simply tossing on the colours of Leicester City and Derby County, there are a few shirts that Savage and his fans most likely would rather forget. Savage himself is getting a bit nervous as he stated that the attempt seemed easy, but the more he looks at pictures at other people who have tried for the world record the harder it looks.
“Throughout my playing career I was fortunate enough to weigh exactly the same in my final season at Derby as when I first started out with Crewe Alexandra – I certainly don’t think there is any room to be carrying any extra pounds for this challenge.
“The t-shirts’ collective weight will obviously put my shoulders and back under a lot of pressure and heat stroke is also something else to consider.
“Naturally I’m hugely proud of my playing career and this is a great way to end it. If I break the record, I expect that makes me the only player in the world to wear every single npower Football League team strip.”
The record attempt is to celebrate the launch of npower’s Club 72 initiative which will be an interactive platform for football supporters to chart their own performance throughout the season.
Launching to coincide with the start of the 2011/12 season, Club 72 will offer fans the chance to document their own performance in terms of attending football league games at npowerclub72.com. The site will allow fans to record the Football League stadiums they’ve been to and show how far they’ll go to follow the beautiful game. For every stadium visited, you’ll be awarded a virtual badge as well as bonus points for being a “lucky charm” (seeing three victories in a row) and reaching certain milestones such as “all Championship grounds visited”.