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A nostalgic wander through the football crests of the past and the old designs which conjure the memories of football gone by

When did numbers first appear on football shirts and how have they evolved since?  We delve in to the numbers game and why the football shirt and the number on the back are now inextricably linked.

Check out this unboxing review from the lads at www.ftgig.co.uk   Fashion comes round in circles is what they say. Only yesterday I saw a girl wearing a pair of Adidas poppa trousers on the train home. These were cool 20 years ago, earlier that same day I saw a girl in a hoop stripe pastel colour sweater, these were cool 30 years ago. What is it then that makes all of these things come round in circles. For these people, its not nostalgia, as they were probably only about 20 themselves so would not have even been born when...

Football can be visceral, territorial, furious and all encompassing, yet for some it can also be life saving; a way to connect, a way to unify, a social inclusion like no other.   So, with suicide remaining the biggest killer of men, under 45, in the UK, what can football do to help break the silence surrounding male mental health? According to Colin Dolan, founder of the Mental Health Football Association, “Football saves lives........it saved mine without a shadow of a doubt. If it wasn’t for football, I’d be dead, or in a gutter”. The charity Mind Kicks, formed back in...

One minute’s silence will be observed at 3.06pm in Liverpool this afternoon, to commemorate the time, 30 years ago that, the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Notts Forest at Hillsborough was stopped, and to mark the disastrous events of that day which resulted in the tragic deaths of 96 men, women and children