Ceci N’est Pas Un Maillot Français

I woke up this morning and day had indeed turned into night. One of the small constants of the football world is that Adidas make the French national kit. Ever was it thus, and ever should it be. Indeed, such had the ties between the FFF (the French Football Association) and the German kit manufacturers [...]

Football Shorts 2

Gah. I was full on enthusiasm for going to a match this afternoon but, when push came to shove, an hour and a half up to Middlesex to see AFC Wimbledon play there and the same journey back was just too much for me after so many weekends away already this year was just a [...]

First, As Ever, With The News

I’m only a month late on this, but the news that Adidas have released a ball for the upcoming African Cup of Nations in Ghana has only just reached me. If I was feeling particularly unkind, I’d describe it as “flamboyant”, but at least you can’t say that they’re not radical. The flip side to [...]

Why Statisticians Get It Wrong

It may surprise you to know that I am not a big fan of statistics. If you put a big table of facts and figures in front of me, my head starts to spin and a small bead of foam is likely to form in the corner of my mouth. I am greatly pleased that, [...]

A Smart Bit Of Business

Here’s a very quick trivia question for you: what one thing did the England 1966 World Cup winning team, the Liverpool team that won European Cups in 1978, 1981 and 1984, the Brazil team that won the World Cup in 1994 and the Manchester United team that won the 1999 European Cup all have in [...]

Burns Night

Tomorrow afternoon at 4.00, England will kick off at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow against Russia and, in case you have been living under a rock for the last few weeks or so, it has an artificial pitch. If you’ve been reading the mainstream press over the last few days, this pitch will be give [...]

Six Of The Worst

Some of you may recall the post that I put up on here last week listing my six favourite football kits of all time. On his excellent blog Pitch Invasion, Thomas Dunmore commented that he finds it easier to recall truly awful kits than it is to remember the great ones. With this in mind, [...]

If In Doubt, Write A Different List

I thought I’d break the monotony of the players list with another list this evening. The Guardian’s Sports Blog decided to break up what has been a rather flat sort of a week, football-wise, by listing their favourite six football kits of all time. Rather than risk the wrath of some of the goons that [...]

Posts & Nets: My Magnum Opus

Of all the paraphernalia in and around a football pitch, nothing grabs my attention quite like the goals themselves. There. I said it. There is something indescribably aesthetically pleasing about goal posts and goal nets. They add completeness to a football pitch. A football stadium during the summer, when the posts have been taken down [...]

London Fashion Week

As one or two of you may have noticed from the comments section for the post below this one, there’s going to be a definitive history of goal nets on here in the next few days or so. I will be working on this tonight (and if anyone has any titbits if information that they’d [...]