The horror and the beauty of Sunday league
Sunday morning football’s already dubious reputation took a two-footed battering this week when a referee hung up his whistle for good after allegedly being assaulted by a player for the...
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Cult Kits join forces with SCAA (South China Athletic Association) to produce the Legacy collection
Cult Kits have designed a collection in collaboration with SCAA, a team with over 100 years of history that celebrates the shirts of the late 90s. Accompanied by select lifestyle...
THE ORIGINAL CRAZY GANG: THE RISE, FALL AND RISE OF WIMBLEDON
It is a warm summer’s day in 1987. Two middle-aged men – one from Lebanon, the other Coventry – sit down for lunch in an exclusive central London restaurant. Bobby...
Farewell to the decaying dream factories
There is something reassuringly shite about Crystal Palace's Selhurst Park; reassuring in the sense that it’s old and decrepit but that’s ok because, let’s be honest, modern grounds are miserable...
When love and hate collide
"Loving you is not a choice," sang Fosca in the Stephen Sondheim musical, Passion. "It's who I am." Well, if love makes the world go round, then hatred turns football on...
World in motion: Mundial JPN x Umbro Japan
It’s Chris Waddle and Terry Butcher dancing in Bologna after Platty’s volley had beaten Belgium. It’s Gazza’s tears and Gary Lineker telling Bobby to ‘have a word with him’. It’s...
The sin of being the best: Diego by Emanuel Colban
Romanian born artist Emanuel Colban's latest work focuses on the relationship between spirituality and football. As part of the project he created a series of GIFS documenting the the troubled life...
Golazzo: the Football Italia story
BT Sport Films has confirmed the next instalment in its acclaimed documentary series, Golazzo: The Football Italia Story, which will premiere at 10pm on Saturday, 31 March on BT Sport...
Your first football shirt
Season Annual are back. And this time they have teamed up with fellow shirt lovers, the Footballs Shirt Collective. And as you'd expect, it's really rather good – and all...
Stuff we want: Umbro projects
Look at all the pretty Umbro clothes. You want them all and so do we. The Spring Summer ’18 collection – titled Umbro Projects – is a glorious celebration of...
Nouveau World Cup fans: the case for the defence
Four years ago, when Box2Box co-founder Josh Warwick was a Telegraph journo, he wrote something nasty about phoney football fans ruining the World Cup. He thought it had been forgotten about until...
The day I took Pirlo's photograph
Ecuadorean Ricardo Andrés Verdesoto Rugel tells how chance encounter with Italian idol helped create an iconic image. Let's take this back a few years. In 1997 I was at the...
Meet the teenager bringing safe standing back to English football
Be honest: what had you achieved by the time you turned 17? Managed a B in your French GSCE? Survived a week in Malia? Completed Grand Theft Auto on the...
From Russia with love: World Cup posters by LoveGunn
With the World Cup kicking-off in Russia on 14th June, creative branding agency, LoveGunn have created a series of typographic posters depicting each of the 32 teams competing this summer....