How Football Tactics Have Evolved

The football played today would be unrecognisable to the first professionals, not because the players are better, though they are, but because the entire idea of how to organise a…

Cheap Football Jerseys: How to Buy Well Without Overpaying

A football jersey is polyester, stitching, a crest and a sponsor print. The cost of making one is not high and not a mystery. Yet prices range enormously, and a…

How Football Academies Produce Players

Almost every player in the Premier League spent years in a club academy before anyone outside football knew their name. The academy system is where professional footballers are made, and…

The England Home Shirt: What Actually Changes Between Cycles

At a glance, every England home shirt looks the same. White, a crest on the left, some red or navy somewhere. Line ten of them up from different cycles and…

Premier League Shirts: A Season Guide for Buyers

Twenty clubs release at least three kits each summer, which puts something in the region of sixty new shirts into the market within a few weeks. Most are variations on…

Buying Football Shirts Online in the UK: A Buyer’s Checklist

The shirt you want is almost never in a shop near you. It might be last season’s away kit, a club with no UK retail presence, or simply a size…

England Kids Kit: How to Get the Size Right First Time

Buying a football shirt for a child involves a calculation adults buying for themselves never have to make. You are not only choosing a size that fits today. You are…

Cheap Manchester City Shirts: Getting the Sky Blue Right

Sky blue is the hardest colour in English football to reproduce. It sits in a narrow band where a small shift in the dye leaves the shirt looking washed out…

Cheap Chelsea Shirts: How to Buy Well Without Overpaying

There is a version of shirt buying that goes badly. You find a price too good to ignore, order your usual size, and three weeks later something arrives that fits…