buried underneath the centre spot. Prominent Wembley figures who took part in the ceremony included Tottenham Hotspur and England player Jermain Defoe, FA head of football development Sir Trevor Brooking, stadium architect Lord Norman Foster, four-time...

Sunday July 23, 2006 Thieves have stolen England caps and a World Cup shirt in a haul from Wayne Rooney's parents' house in Liverpool. The Manchester United star's family home in Sandfield Park was targeted between 5pm and 11.20pm Saturday night....

Hugh Hornby, head of Curatorial and Research at the museum, said: "Although this is the National Football Museum for England, it is good for us to connect with the rest of the world through objects, images and text. I think it is worth featuring...

every game for the Brazil team still considered to be the greatest ever. The 1970 World Cup was held in Mexico; Brazil beat England, Romania and Czechoslovakia in the group stages before victories against Peru then Uruguay saw them to the Final. On 21...

Cohen's shirt, which had been given a pre-sale estimate of £20,000, was in remarkably good condition 40 years on from England's triumph, with only a touch of wear and tear. Christie's spokesman Matthew Paton confirmed that the shirt was now in the the...

on the lookout for a Pele shirt Christies March 24th auction has the maestro's 1959 Brazil shirt worn in a friendly against England estimated at £8,000-£12,000. So what price for arguably one of the most important shirts in the history of the game?...

England footballers who have been suffering in the Portuguese heat could benefit from a new hi-tech football shirt that alerts managers to players' heart rate and hydration levels. The shirt, designed by Northumbria University student David Evans, uses...

order to cash in later on official shirt sales! Continental clubs are some way behind the merchandising boom pioneered in England though Italian fans do not see football replica shirts as quite the fashion items favoured in England. Nostalgia selling...

By the early 1980s in England competition sponsorship had opened the way to club shirt sponsorship. Abroad, the wearing of product names on club shirts was already common. In 1978 Liverpool became the first British club to have a shirt sponsor.Sponsors...

World Cup 2002 shirt and a 2005 League Cup final shirt, had been stolen last week. Dudek's home in Caldy, north-west England, was burgled while he was on holiday in Poland. His £65 000 black Porsche Carrera car was also taken. On Friday, police searched...