Few words are a greater buzzkill in the football shirt universe than ‘template’. Even the most casual of fans in 2026 will tell you that a bespoke kit is far superior to any template that a brand has

lego.com Pele won the World Cup on three occasions, but never got to construct the latest iteration of the trophy from the bottom up using tiny studded bricks of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene plasti

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