npower and Robbie Savage Team Up to Break Record
Released on: August 05, 2011, 4:35 pm
Author:
npower
Industry:
Energy
npower has announced that, as part of its Club 72 initiative,
former football player, Robbie Savage, will attempt to set the World
Record for the most football league shirts worn at once.
Savage brought his playing career to an end last season but to celebrate the start
of 2011/12 season, the Welshman has teamed up with the npower Club 72 initiative to wear a football shirt from every
single football league club, and in doing so setting the record for most amount of npower football league shirts worn
at one time.
In a league career spanning seventeen years, there's not many team strips that
Savage hasn't encoutered before but with newly promoted AFC Wimbledon and Crawley
Town both joining the league for the first time, there will be at least two shirts
he won’t have seen before.
As well as donning the colours once again of some of his previous clubs such as
Derby County and Leicester City, Savage will also model some real blasts from the
past with Football League Shirts some fans would be pleased to forget..
On the record attempt, Savage said: "It seems quite an easy challenge at first
glance but having seen photos of similar attempts I’m actually a little worried now.
"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".
-ENDS-
About npower:
npower is one of the UK's largest electricity suppliers and has 6.6 million customer accounts across the UK.
npower has been awarded platinum status in Business in the Community's CR Index and
is one of twenty-nine companies to have achieved the CommunityMark since its launch.
All CommunityMark achievers have been recognised for demonstrating excellence in
their holistic and strategic approach to community investment.
npower is one of the top also supplies business gas to the
UK business market, serving over 238,000 small to medium sized enterprise sites and
around 17,000 industrial and commercial customers.
npower sponsors The Football League.
PR Contact:
Nicholas McHugh
npower
Oak House
1 Bridgewater Road
Worcester
WR4 9FP
0845 070 2807
www.npower.com
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