Catch the shirts of '66

Ricky Tomlinson gets off the sofa and embarks on a fascinating quest to track down the most famous shirts in English sporting history. Four hundred million people watched spellbound on July 30th 1966 as, in the final moments of extra time, Geoff Hurst...
22 August 2006

Football shirt firms set to pay £100 m fine

number of complaints of price-fixing and refusal to supply that these sectors had generated over many years. 3. The sporting goods campaign was opened with a press notice on 21 January 1997. Beginning on 4 February, a series of advertisements was placed...
22 August 2006

Christie's auction 06-2006 World Cup memorabilia

fans as Cohen was a lifelong player for the club. Anyone in London can come and have a look at it, it's quite a rare sporting relic." He added: "There is something from every single World Cup here, going back to the first tournament in 1930." There has...
21 August 2006

Uruguay football shirt "a monument"

'Black Chief' used on this mythical field for the Uruguayans, and the shirt which he sweated as he pulled off the greatest sporting achievement, must remain in Uruguay and be exhibited as an example of its people's highest values," the government said...
21 August 2006

Sport collectors score financial goal

cricket, tennis and fishing antiques all in demand. Football crazy But just as football dominates the headlines on the sporting pages, it also provides the leading prices in the world of sporting memorabilia. "Certainly football provides our biggest...
21 August 2006

The Barcelona Museum

Museum: which covers the club's more than a century long story through the many trophies won, photographic archives, sporting material, audiovisual shows and a vast number of items to stir the fans' emotions. · The Art Gallery: with works by some of the...
18 August 2006