Recently selling for £4000 at auction, this is Dieter Hoeneß’s Mexico ’86 shirt. An adidas design, as most (West) Germany shirts are, the item was only expected to reach between £500 and £700 but...

Umbro have quite the pedigree in football kit design - they have been around for very close to a century - and way back in 1969, the year of these catalogue pages, they were a dominating force. Even...

This is a Netherlands shirt issued to Dutch footballing legend Johnny Rep for the 1978 World Cup in Argentina and recently sold at auction for £3400. The classically styled adidas design is from one...

This Bryan Robson shirt from Manchester United’s run to the quarter-finals of the 1984-85 Uefa Cup recently sold at auction for £8500. The Away design, which is slightly different to the domestic...

This Manchester United shirt from the middle of the 1984-86 era recently sold at auction for a whopping 13 times its estimate - £9000 rather than the predicted £600-800. As is often the case, the...

This 1963 England shirt with FA 100th anniversary embroidered crest patch - “CENTENARY YEAR 1863-1963” - recently sold at auction for £2600. Originally prepared for the now late Jimmy Armfield, who...

When we take a look at catalogue pages generally, they tend to be from around 20, 30, or, at a push, 40 years ago. If we really stretch it, we might cover some from the late 1970s… Here, The Glove...

Recently selling by auction, this Bobby Moore shirt from Fulham’s 1975 FA Cup Final defeat to Moore’s beloved West Ham United is a true piece of history. Carrying the former England captain’s iconic number...

A recent auction house sale has seen a 1971 shirt match-worn by Stoke City’s John Mahoney fetch £2600. Estimated to make between £700 and £1000, the vintage item apparently benefitted from its...

From a European point of view, it’s good to see how football design - or soccer design - was being viewed in North America towards the end of the last century. The Major League Soccer - MLS -...