For most of football’s history, going to a match meant buying a programme. It told you the...
A club’s colours are the most permanent thing about it. Managers, players, stadiums and badges all change;...
The name across the front of a football shirt is now so normal that an unsponsored shirt...
Of all the parts of a football shirt, the collar is the one that changes most often...
Every club has a home kit that means something. Far fewer have an away kit that does....
A captain’s armband is a strip of elasticated fabric worn above the elbow. It carries no official...
For most of the game’s history, an old football shirt was something you either still owned or...
A club that plays in plain white has removed its most obvious dating tool. There is no...
Vertical stripes are among the oldest patterns in football and among the least changed. A club that...
Tottenham have worn white at home since the beginning of the twentieth century, which makes theirs one...