Understanding how football referees are appointed clears up a surprising amount of the weekly argument about them....
Ask why football clubs have nicknames and the answer is that almost nobody chose them. A club’s...
The story of the testimonial match is really the story of what footballers used to earn. A...
Understanding how football shirt sizes changed means accepting that for most of the game’s history, sizing barely...
The football shirt is the most widely worn garment in British sport and the least examined. Every...
Every argument about whether football was harder in the past comes back, eventually, to the ball. For...
English football club names look like a random vocabulary until you learn where they came from, at...
A modern football shirt weighs about as much as a paperback and is engineered to move sweat...
Most of what supporters wear to a football match has been designed, licensed and sold to them....
For most of football’s history, going to a match meant buying a programme. It told you the...