Following recent deals with football bodies in Australia and Indonesia, Nike has announced a four-year sponsorship of the Football Association of Malaysia. The sportswear company will provide the main attire for all national teams and also contribute...
19 January 2007
The story of hummel takes its beginning in Hamburg in 1923 where the Messmer family started applying the first rubber outsoles to footwear. – from 1923 until today where technology and fashion have become vitals elements to a story that has only just...
14 January 2007
By Simon Garfield And Pele should know - his World Cup shirt has been sold for £140,000. Sports memorabilia has become a million-pound industry, but it is increasingly plagued by exploitation and forgery. So how do you know if you're getting the real...
23 November 2006
Precisely hundred year ago the origin of the legendary Quick-shoe began. In 1905 Herman Jansen began in the city Hengelo(Holland) with its shoe business that would grow into the known Quick-factory.,. A small one-man company evolved into a factory,...
18 November 2006
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