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My Favourite Watford FC Football Kits

(14/07/21)

Ah, Watford FC. To the outsider it’s that confusing club that sacks a manager every two months (not true), owns no players other than Troy Deeney (also not true) and is nicknamed the Hornets despite having a moose on their badge (true, though it’s a hart [a male red deer], not a moose).Being one of the few teams in the football league that...

My Favourite Scotland Football Kits

(22/06/21)

International shirts are quite often rigid in colour palette, and although this can be said about the main navy blue colour of Scotland’s home kits, they have often added significant pattern detailing since the late 80s and it certainly isn’t true for the away shirts. We’ve seen an array of colours and designs across away and third...

Vintage Football Shirts Competitions and Giveaways

(11/06/21)

If you are looking for classic football shirt giveaways and competitions you've come to the right place. Scroll down to see all the competitions currently live on our social channels Italy Euro 2000 Home by Kappa - Euro 2020 giveaway competition We've got an Italy 2000 home kit to give away. All you have to do is follow the instructions...

My Favourite England Football Kits

(10/06/21)

It's that time again when everyone dusts off their favourite England shirts and gets set for a summer of eventual disappointment. While online the eternal debate of what is the best Three Lions kit rages on like it does every time a tournament swings around. On the basis, England football shirts are usually predictable; a plain white home with...

Montserrat 2021-22 home and away kits by BOL

(26/05/21)

Montserrat's International team are now on the football shirt collectors radar after releasing a new jersey for the 2021-2022 World Cup qualifying campaign inspired by their 'Emerald Boys' nickname.Football shirts from the small Caribbean island of Montserrat are very rare and have never been produced on a mass scale, which means they are missing from...

My Match Worn Collection: Sampdoria

(25/05/21)

My Match Worn Collection: SampdoriaIt’s funny how shirt collections sprawl isn’t it? When I started I was only interested in matchworn Hull City shirts, but then when I’d amassed a fair size collection it naturally became harder to find things I didn’t have so I considered another branch to the collection and that was Sampdoria...

Umbro Shirts That Never Were - Prototype Umbro Kits

(13/05/21)

Umbro shirts that were never wornWe've managed to get a delivery of classic 80s Umbro kits that were never worn by the clubs. The shirts were overlooked for different designs but we think some of them are actaully better than the chosen designs. It got us thinking if Vintage shirt fans out there had any in their collections and if they knew of any...

The Football Stadium Photographer

(21/04/21)

Photography has always been a passion as far back as I can remember. I took my photography O-Level back in 1984 and graduated from college on a photography course a few years later. Throughout my education I always liked cameras and picked up a job selling them at Dixons which fuelled the passion even further. My early work, based around travel, was...

My Match Worn Collection: Republic of Ireland

(09/04/21)

We asked match worn Republic of Ireland shirt collector Eddie to show off his best shirts and tell us how he founded the Irish Football Museum.My not for profit Irish football museum called Irelandsoccershirts.com was founded in 2002. Currently there are 270 unique exhibits in the archive with 225 of them being Irish matchworn...

My Favourite Derby County Kits

(06/04/21)

When people think of a Derby County kits, their first thought is a white shirt and black shorts. However, the first ever shirt which dates back to 1884 was a pattern of brown, blue and yellow. They went through several different colours before choosing to don the black and white in 1897. Through the glory years of Sir Brian Clough in the 70&rsquo...