This day 35 years ago saw the Republic of Ireland play their first game at a major tournament. In one of those coincidences that football...
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A side-effect of progress and evolution is that something considered ground-breaking upon its introduction can seem quite ordinary in hindsight. Looking back now the 1996...
With a club career record of 281 goals in 567 games and 48 strikes in 80 England caps, Gary Lineker was a pure number 9....
I never thought that I would be mentioned in the acknowledgements of a book about England shirts, but then I shouldn’t have reckoned without the...
Saturday’s World Cup quarter-final between England and France will of course be an all-Nike affair – the American company have six of the last eight,...
(Or if the World Cup had kept 1-11 numbering in force) By Jim Hearson You may have caught our previous work on renumbering FA Cup...
Updated from the 25th-anniversary version in 2017 Today, June 10, marks the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the 1992 European Championship. While my first...
Ordinarily, we would now be gearing up for the commencement of the World Cup in June, but of course things are different now. Hopefully the...
This request comes Jorge Primera, who is a mine of ideas and deserves an apology for not having them done sooner. In fact, he has...
Scotland were able to wear their first-choice kit in each of their three games Conversely, England had to wear alternative shorts in every outing Croatia...