is well documented in the museum, with shirts worn by Billy Bremner for Leeds United in the 1970s and Willie Gibson's Newcastle United league championship jersey from 1927. One case in particular which is bound to prove a popular one - for Scottish...
14 November 2006
Arsenal's new strip for their last season at Highbury may not be to everyone's taste but expert John Devlin is a redcurrant fan When Second Division Woolwich Arsenal moved into their state-of-the-art Arsenal Stadium in 1913 it cost around £10m (in...
26 August 2006
sold to English fans is the club adult replica shirt. Sales of the larger clubs can reach up to 500,000. When Newcastle United signed Alan Shearer, for example, the club made £250,000 on the day of this signing, just in terms of Shearer replica shirt...
25 August 2006
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...
24 August 2006
Inside Out investigates counterfeit football shirts. Every football season eager Magpie fans queue up to grab the new Newcastle United football shirt. Newcastle United fans spend millions of pounds each year buying these replica kits. It's a symbol of...
24 August 2006