Fixture Congestion in Football: What It Does to Players
Complaints about the fixture list are as old as professional football, and for a long time they were treated as managers making excuses. The science…
Fixture Congestion in Football: What It Does to Players
Complaints about the fixture list are as old as professional football, and for a long time they were treated as managers making excuses. The science has since caught up with…
Kids Football Shirts: What Actually Lasts
A children’s football shirt has a harder life than an adult’s by a wide margin. It gets played in rather than watched in, it meets walls and playground tarmac, and…
How Football Kit Fabric Actually Works
Two shirts can be made of the same material and perform completely differently. The fibre is only the starting point. What determines whether a kit is comfortable through ninety minutes…
Cheap Tottenham Kits: What to Check Before You Buy
White home kits are the hardest thing to buy cheaply and the easiest thing to get wrong. Every production shortcut that a coloured shirt hides, a white one displays. Tottenham…
Manchester City Shirts: Player Version or Replica?
Most people buying a City shirt are choosing between two garments that share a colour, a crest and a name, and differ in almost every other respect. The listings rarely…
Arsenal Football Shirts: What Actually Changed Inside the Modern Kit
Put a 1998 Arsenal shirt next to a current one and the obvious differences are the collar, the sponsor and the cut. The differences that matter more are invisible. The…
Brighton & Hove Albion Kits: From the Goldstone to the Amex
For most of their history Brighton & Hove Albion were a club whose kit was better known than their results. Blue and white stripes, seagull on the chest, seaside in…
Newcastle United Kits: The Story of the Black and White Stripes
Some kits are famous for a design. Newcastle United’s is famous for a pattern. Black and white vertical stripes, black shorts, black socks: it has been the same for more…
Manchester City Shirts: How Sky Blue Became a Global Brand
There are perhaps five colours in world football that belong to one club, and sky blue is one of them. Say the words and the mind goes straight to east…
The Science Inside a Premier League Shirt: Fabric, Fit and Heat
A football shirt looks like a simple thing: a polyester top with a crest on it. It is not. The garments worn in the top flight today are engineered products,…