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Allez Les Verts & Blanc!
In April 1978, when most of the world still watched TV in black and white, it was important for televised football matches to be contested by a team wearing a light kit and the other a da...
KYLIAN MBAPPÉ’S GENUIS.
My blog is about my love and admiration for one Parisian genius. I remember the first time I watched his genius was 2017 champions league against Pep's great Manchester City team he was so quick...
NAIRN COUNTY. HONED BY HEARTBREAK.
Highland League Club Nairn County showed a shirt’s power to catalyse grief prefacing hope in August 2022. They gave their third team shirt over to TeamHamish, a local charity set up by Sam and Susa...
RETRO KITS + MY 1ST TWO SHIRTS EVER!
As someone who has long since read blogs on vintage football kits, it’s a very surreal experience to be finally writing my own. So I hope this conveys my love and borderline obsession of the subjec...
1860 MUNCHEN: THE BLUE SIDE OF MUNICH.
A team perhaps forgotten about in the footballing world, but not in the football shirt world and certainly not in my world. Success has been few and far between for Die Löwen (The Lions) in rece...
RETRO FOOTBALL FAIR (LIVERPOOL) WITH ‘5 AT THE BACK’.
As heavy rain fell on a cold, wintry December 9th, Liverpool were sneaking their way past Crystal Palace down in the capital, narrowly escaping another 12:30 kick-off banana skin. But back...
LES MINOTS TO THE RESCUE!
April 7th 1981. Olympique de Marseille, in Ligue 2 at the time, is placed placed in liquidation. Things are bad, very bad. S bad that the club confirms that it is unable to pay the electricity bill...
Double A’s Shirt Show.
First off let me start by saying hello and thank you for stopping by to have a read of my ramblings of what has become not only an obsession, but almost a way of life for me now. Secondly, I have t...
2010/11 Away – Barcelona’s Teal Treasure.
Tuesday nights under the lights. ITV, Clive Tyldesley and Andy Townsend. The height of the UEFA Champions League. The visuals were magnificent. Europe’s finest clad in Adidas Teamgeist and...
A Florence Affair.
As football shirt lovers, I can safely assume that you're all familiar with the famous football attire of Fiorentina (La Viola if you want to get a little bit fancy). But why oh why do I have an un...
150 years of the SFA, a beautiful new shirt and a proper belief that this squad is going places.
Given my passion for collecting football shirts, as well as fiercely supporting my national team, you’ll hopefully forgive me for opting for Scotland as the topic of my 1st column for this new...
Lights Out!
It’s March 20th 1991, the night of the Champions League quarter final between AC Milan (the defending champions) and l’Olympique de Marseille at the Stade Vélodrome. La Canebiere is buzzing wi...
Animals in Serie A.
Football mascots gents. Have you ever thought why some animals were chosen to represent a team? Let’s examine Serie A, a league with a wide range of faunae. In the north of the peninsul...
The Football Shirt Phenomenon.
phenomenon /fɪˈnɒmɪnən/ noun 1. a fact or situation that is observed to exist or happen, especially one whose cause or explanation is in question. 2. a remarkable person or thing. ...
Fake Shirt Police.
Hey, I'm James, I work on the FakeShirtPolice account, I've been running it since March 2022. We recently hit 1000 followers and we are on the way to 1500 after a really successful exposé on a coup...
The World’s First Continental Kit.
The Puma Africa Unity football kit is not your standard kit, it is actually the world's first “Continental Football Kit”. In 2010 the footballing sphere was focused on Africa as it hosted both t...
The First Journey.
Me and my 2 friends from Sweden have always talked about making a football trip abroad. When we finally chose to make this dream real, we began to look for alternatives. After many hours of plannin...
Football War.
Football rivalries can be intense, heated and vicious. Though, can a football match spark an actual war between 2 factions? The answer is (unfortunately) yes. It happened in 1969, when two ne...
Knowing what I know now…
Knowing what I know now about football, I think life would have been very different for me. Looking back, I would have begged my parents to put me in an after-school sports activity to start p...
Hazardous Addiction.
For starters I’d like to introduce myself a bit. My name is Sven, Belgian living in The Netherlands and I believe to be the biggest fan on the planet of Eden Hazard. So as far as my (shirt) collect...
My Trip to the San Siro.
This was my second trip to the historic San Siro, having seen AC Milan beat Udinese 4-2 earlier in the season. So I decided I needed to watch the black and blue half of the city, Inter Milan. Weird...
Why Those Colours?
No sponsors, numbers on the front, all those distinctive symbols and patterns. National team football shirts are quite unique indeed. They are also a great way to get familiar with world flags, sin...