England release new kit and it will set you back £140

ENGLAND have unveiled their eighth kit in just over two years — and it will cost you £140 to buy the full dark grey get-up. The shirt itself will set you back £95, if you buy the ‘Test’ version the players will wear, and with shorts priced at £32 and socks costing £13, buying the entire look will be an expensive present. The ‘alternate’ Canterbury jersey costs £5 more than the previous blue incarnation, which was worn only four times. England bring out a home and away kit each season and had to release two more, costing £120 each, for the last World Cup without sponsors, so this is the eighth shirt since 2015. Cotton replicas will cost £65 with junior sizes priced at £50. Eddie Jones’s men will start their autumn campaign on November 11 against Argentina in the grey kit — it will be the first time they have worn that colour since hammering Australia at Twickenham in 2010 wearing ‘anthracite grey’. This kit has red flashes on the sleeves and shorts which the suppliers say is ‘designed to mask player movement’. ‘In line with England head coach Eddie Jones’s vision of beung more disruptive and uncompromising on the field, the red fade feature is designed to make it harder to distinguish aspects of the body during the tackle,’ they said.