Barcelona’s early 1990s ‘Dream Team’ could be said to have been ahead of their time. In one sense, this is borne out by the fact...
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When Barcelona travelled to Osasuna on September 3 of this year, a surprising piece of squad-number history was created. While Spain changed from 1-11 in...
By Jim Hearson And so we reach the final stretch of our re-imagining of Champions League winners with 1-to-11 instead of squad numbers. Understandably, this...
When Frank Lampard was appointed as Chelsea’s interim manager, there was a lot of fanciful talk about how he could perhaps follow in the footsteps...
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....
One notable change during the transfer window didn’t involve a player moving clubs. Instead, Barcelona were able to take advantage of the fact that La...
Next year will mark the 25th anniversary of Barcelona – and Internazionale – joining forces with Nike, partnerships that remain strong to this day. Still,...
Something we always find pleasing is when a club’s change kit follows the style of the primary strip – for example, Arsenal with contrasting sleeves,...
By Tom from The Shirt Union See here for previous entries in this series It’s the early summer of 2004, and we’re about to embark...
Last Saturday against Real Madrid, Barcelona wore a special strip which nodded to the Senyera flag of Catalonia – their fifth different shirt this season....
