Take a step through the turnstile and listen to the roar of the crowd. Before you lies a rich collection of artefacts and memorabilia which tells the secret story of football. It is a story of glory, tragedy and the game that Scotland gave to the world.

"You are standing in the oldest, continuously used national football stadium in the world, in the most important country in world football history," says Ged O'Brien, manager of the newly opened Scottish Football Museum at Hampden Park, Glasgow

He is well qualified to make such a bold assertion. He has, after all, been piecing this story together for the past 12 years. Scots may not have invented the game per se, but there is a wealth of evidence to suggest that the passing style we recognise in modern football originated on a public park little more than a free-kick's length away from where we stand.

The IASSC (internet association of soccer shirt collectors) was a organisation for collectors of football shirts which started out in the late 1990's.

Many collectors on the collectors society page on footballshirtculture were once member of this organisation.A lot of them exchanged information and shirts for many years and still do today.The IASSC shut down in 2004 because of some dishonest collectors who sold and swapped fake playershirts.

To many collectors the IASSC was big help in collecting shirts and finding information about FAKE football shirts..

Here you find the: IASSC Files

Doha, QATAR – A staggering US$11.25 million was raised at the second Reach Out To Asia Gala Dinner in Doha with several exclusive items up for auction at the star-studded event held in the Qatari capital.

In the space of just an hour, seven exceptional lots ranging from the Golden Football, specially designed jewellery and ceramics donated by celebrities, to a Maserati car, classic Harley Davidson motorcycle and superbike, went under the hammer of London-based auction house Sotheby’s.

The generosity of some guests who successfully bid for the auction items saw selected lots put back into the auction for a second round of auctioning to drive up funds raised on the night. Money raised from the night easily surpassed the US$10 million raised at last year’s inaugural Reach Out To Asia Gala Dinner.

The 2006 FIFA World Cup Final football fetched US$2.4million, while an iconic piece of jewellery designed by the prestigious fashion house Boucheron went for US$3.2million.

"I believe that Leeds took their colours from the great Real Madrid team of the 50s," writes Neil Connolly. " I also heard that Juventus took their colours from Notts County. Are there any other clubs who took their kit from different teams?"

We might as well start with Arsenal, Neil, who pinched their dark red shirts from Nottingham Forest. "In 1895 a selection of Forest players joined the squad, bringing their old kit along with them," explains the Arsenal website.

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 FIFA Museum Collection.

The National Football Museum opened to the public in February 2001. The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) provided £9.3 million of the total initial funding of £15 million required to create the Museum.

Charitable Status
The National Football Museum is a registered charity, governed by a board of independent trustees. The Board comprises a chair and trustees drawn from the museums and heritage sector, football bodies, the business community and key stakeholders.

Football's Coming Home
There could be no more appropriate location for the Museum than Deepdale Stadium, the home of Preston North End FC, which is the oldest football league ground in the world. Preston has been playing at the same ground since 1878, longer than any other football league club. (The Museum is run entirely independently from the fotoball club.)

October 2006 

Football memorabilia has been recovered by police investigating burglaries at the homes of several Liverpool Football Club players.

The homes of Peter Crouch, new Danish defender Daniel Agger, goalkeeper Jerzy Dudek and on-loan striker Sinama Pongolle were targeted.

Four men in their early 20s were arrested when police search a house in the Tuebrook area on Tuesday night.

They are to be questioned on three separate burglary related charges.

Crouch's mansion in Alderley Edge, Cheshire, was burgled last Wednesday while he was playing in a European Champions' League match against Galatasary at Anfield.