The birth of replica: a stitch in time

Last year, artist and designer Christian Jeffery saw images of Jose Ponce carrying a Valencia jersey drenched in mud, following the floods in the Spanish city in October 2024. He was inspired to turn

You can’t overstate just how big the shirt sponsors were in 1970s French football. Back when kit sponsorship was still a relatively new concept, being tentatively phased in across the game, clubs in t

Woltemade’s move to St James’ Park came out of the blue, a bit reminiscent of his emergence for both Stuttgart and the German national team. A product of Werder Bremen’s youth setup, the 23-year-old h

What was the first game you ever attended? I’m from the DC, Maryland, Virginia area, so went to DC United games growing up. I don’t know the first, but one of the earliest would be when Wayne Rooney w

A week is said to be a lifetime in football. That adage has never rung truer than for Morecambe, who across just seven summer days, journeyed from despair to delirium. On Saturday, August 16, most oth

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