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...
For most of their history Liverpool wore red shirts and white shorts, which was unremarkable. Dozens of...