West Brom Albion’s players showed their support for this year's Poppy Appeal during Saturday's incident-packed draw with Blackburn.

West Brom Albion are offering you a unique chance to bag a Baggies match shirt from the 2-2 draw and, at the same time, raise money for the Royal British Legion.

Up for grabs in the latest official auctions are the specially-designed jerseys, featuring embroidered poppies, worn by Tony Mowbray's 18-man squad during the Hawthorns clash with Rovers.Most importantly, all proceeds from the auctions will go to the 2008 Poppy Appeal.

The shirts on offer include those worn by the 14 players who made it onto the field (Scott Carson, Gianni Zuiverloon, Ryan Donk, Jonas Olsson, Paul Robinson, Robert Koren, Jonathan Greening, Borja Valero, James Morrison, Roman Bednar and Ishmael Miller plus subs Carl Hoefkens, Chris Brunt and Luke Moore) and the four unused subs (Dean Kiely, Marek Cech, Do-heon Kim and Pele).

FC Basel have organised an exhibition at their stadium museum. The “ FCB meets FCB “ exhibition shows how businessman and former player Hans Gamper migrated to Spain before founding FC Barcelona in 1899.

According to legend, Gamper may even have based Barcelona’s half red, half blue team strip on Basel's near identical colours which had been in use since the Swiss club's own founding six years earlier.

“Sadly there is no historical document proving that Barca’s shirts were based on FC Basel’s, but the circumstantial evidence is quite compelling,” Swiss Sport Museum collection leader Hans-Dieter Gerber said.

“The fact that Gamper went to Spain and set up FC Barcelona who started playing with the same distinctive colours he had played in suggests the story is at least credible.”

For those who forgot it… The Only A Game? exhibition opened its doors to the public today as the UEFA-driven project takes up residence in the World Museum Liverpool from 11 October to 1 March.

With admission free, the interactive exhibition invites visitors to plunge into the emotions of football, inspired by a selection of prestigious artefacts, trophies and memorabilia, covering in particular the last 50 years of European football.

Only A Game?, which first showed in Brussels last year, has a wider appeal than just to football fans, however, as it charts the development of the European Community after the Treaty of Rome, in tandem with the growth of the European club competitions.

The football shirt worn by Sir Geoff Hurst in the 1966 World Cup Final will return to Wembley tomorrow thanks to an Oxfordshire businessman.

Property investor Andrew Leslau has fronted a consortium of collectors who recently purchased the match worn football shirt of the world cup 66 hero.

His plans are to take it to the WC 2010 qualifying match against Kazakhstan. 

Mr Leslau, of Milton Common, said he hoped the shirt — insured for £1million — would be a talisman for fans and spur the team on to victory.

"This is the most important shirt in English football history - not just the most valuable and most expensive in the world," said Mr Leslau.

In the world’s first virtual sports museum, “The Priory Collection” you can see some of the most important and historical pieces of memorabilia from the 6500 items in the collection which is essentially devoted to football, cricket, rugby and the Olympics.

The football collection contains objects varying from an oil painting dated 1830, thought to be one of the oldest paintings of its kind to the Stanley Matthews kit worn in the 1953 FA Cup Final. Known as the Matthews’ Final; it was incidently the first time Queen Elizabeth had ever attended a football match.

The first World Cup Final between Argentina and Uruguay which was controversial because the teams couldn’t agree on which ball to play with, so it was decided that they play each with their own ball for one half. The online museum shows the Uruguayan ball played in the second half where they went on to win 4-2. The Bobby Moore shirt which he so famously swapped with Pele after the 1970 World Cup group match in Mexico.....plus many more items.

Yesterday, the municipal and state governments of the city of Sao Paulo, in association with private industry and a cultural foundation, unveiled the Museum of Football. (museu do futebol)

Located within the offices of the Estadio Municipal Paulo Machado de Carvalho, better known as the Pacaembu and one of the city's most popular postcard images, the museum has 17 rooms of exhibits, spread across three floors and covering an area close to 7,000 m².  

To visit the Museum of Football is to take a trip through the history of Brazil in the 20th century, and learn how football has shaped the nation's culture, via a modern design and a host of multimedia resources.

Upon entry, visitors are drawn to the Penalty Area, a room housing a photographic exhibition documenting a variety of Brazilian clubs' paraphernalia, collected by fans over the decades. Items on display vary from tankards to old magazines, and also include pendants, ashtrays and dolls.

England was the birthplace of the modern professional game of football, the world's most popular sport.

The National Football Museum collects, preserves and interprets this unique heritage for the public benefit. The Museum has a long-term mission, a responsibility to both the present and future generations. Football is the people's game. The Museum has a key role to play in social inclusion, widening the audiences for museums and their services.

The National Football Museum holds the world's finest collections of historic football artefacts and archives, including the ball from the 1966 World Cup Final, Maradona's shirt from the "hand of God" game, the oldest FA Cup trophy, the shirt from the world's first international, the official FIFA Collection, and so much more ...

President of the National Football Museum: Sir Bobby Charlton and Vice-Presidents: Sir Alex Ferguson, Sir Tom Finney, Sir Trevor Brooking are looking for some help with these jobs: