The National Football Museum

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...
27 October 2006

the history of Christie's football sales

The sale of Gordon Banks's 1966 World Cup winners medal for £124,750 illustrates once more that sports memorabilia is big business. Indeed, the six items of the Banks's collection sold at Christie's auction house in London on Thursday realised more...
16 October 2006

Fake match-worn shirts guide

up the shirts sponsors logo. David Beckham wears two different sized boots - totally true. Some players cut tongues off football boots and will not wear a new set of boots till season finishes supersition and also they say a boot doesn't break in till...
01 October 2006

ferenc puskas memorabilia sold

Hungarian and Real Madrid legend Ferenc Puskas, who is desperately ill in a Budapest hospital with a form of Alzheimer's disease, was forced to sell off his medals, including the golden boot he was awarded to commemorate his amazing international...
28 September 2006

Christie's Football memorabilia auction 13-09-2006

Christie’s Football Memorabilia on 13 September will include the jersey worn by George Best during the Manchester United versus Northampton Town F.A. Cup match in 1970, when he scored six goals and played arguably his finest ever football performance,...
04 September 2006

Eric Knowles - Football Memorabilia

does beg the question even more when you consider the £13,800 paid for a pair of red, black and white Adidas Predator football boots worn by David Beckham in the 97 - 98 season And how I wish I had thought twice about throwing out all those match...
29 August 2006

Shirts of the future?

fan David, 23, from Woodley in Cheshire, has not only designed the football shirt, he has also turned his attentions to football boots and has designed a boot with a pressure sensitive insole that highlights when the pitch conditions are too hard or...
27 August 2006

Exhibition Hong Kong - the story of football

France in 1968, a Real Madrid shirt worn by Alfredo di Stefano in 1953, a model of David Beckham's foot, George Best's football boots and the football shirts signed by superstars like Pele, Ronaldinho, Beckham and Michael Owen. The seventh zone,...
23 August 2006

Christie's auction 06-2006 World Cup memorabilia

A piece of England's World Cup folklore which has been in German hands for the last 40 years went on public display in London today before going under the hammer next week. The red No 2 shirt worn by England full back George Cohen during the 1966 World...
21 August 2006

Uruguay football shirt "a monument"

de Janeiro. His kit has come up for auction, but its new status means it now cannot be taken out of the country. "The football boots which the 'Black Chief' used on this mythical field for the Uruguayans, and the shirt which he sweated as he pulled off...
21 August 2006