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The Modern Badge Bandwagon
Everyone loves a football club badge. They can purvey any number of messages about a team in a million different ways, but while some look near perfect, others look considerably ill-conceived.Over the...
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Panini Continental: Football 81 (Belgium)
Ever remember that feeling you got as a kid at Christmastime; that feeling of envy towards your friends when you saw the presents they’d received? Oh, you were happy enough with your own gifts, sure......
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The Greatest Germany Home Kit 1965-2015: The Result
Over the last half a century, the national football team of West Germany, latterly just Germany, have worn 22 different home kits. Some have been simple in their design while others have been colourful...
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Subbuteo: My who/what/where/when/why
I was very lucky to have enjoyed Subbuteo when it was surely at its peak. Over a period of five or six years, I built up a small collection of items and played dozens of games, and not once did I fail...
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Panini: Football Superstars (1984)
Back in February 2014, we reviewed Panini’s ‘Soccer Superstars’ collection from 1988. Consisting of an album into which picture cards (not stickers) could be inserted, this was a rare chance to see...
View ArticleJonathan Roberts' 5 Best Players That Never Played At International Finals
We welcome another guest writer to The Football Attic as Jonathan Roberts reminds us of some of the great players that never qualified for a major competition..."A World Cup without me is nothing to...
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Ultimate BBC Goal of the Season
For years it was the gold standard of football quality. Twenty-five yard screamers, fabulous team efforts, flying headers... they've all featured in the BBC's Goal of the Season competition over the...
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Moving the goal posts
It's a great pleasure to welcome into the Attic our old friend Jay from DesignFootball.com who today gives us his take on goal frames, Italian style and Subbuteo (among other things)...Like most things...
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Kit Collection Book Volume 2 Now Available!
Following the rather unexpected "success" of the critically acclaimed Football Attic Kit Collection book, it was only logical that a follow up would happen.Given Volume 1 covered all the shirts I'd...
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Videoblog 8: Chris O's Football Shirts
Here at The Football Attic, it's not just Rich J who's owned a considerable number of footy shirts in his time. Chris O's bought a few down the years as well, and to prove the point, here he is to tell...
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The Football Attic's Hit Parade: We Can Do It
The more you delve deeply into the history of football teams and their commercially released music, the more you realise that few clubs have ever created an original song from scratch. Even Jimmy...
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Ultimate BBC Goal of the Season - And the winner is...
...the first ever winner of the BBC's Goal of the Season competition - Ernie Hunt of Coventry City.That iconic donkey kick by Willie Carr, followed by Hunt's perfectly executed volley secured 37.6% of...
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Book Review - Sky Blue Heroes by Steve Phelps
We get sent a few books to review here in the Attic and it's always a delight, even if we don't always find the time to review them all. One book in particular I was looking forward to getting my hands...
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The Football Attic Podcast 30 - Future Nostalgia
It's all very well us old men banging on about what we remember from our childhood like a malfunctioning PeterKayBot, but what will future generations look back on with fondness?Salted? Caramel?So...
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The Age of Management
Not so long ago, I found myself wondering whether football managers and coaches were getting younger, particularly those in the Premier League. Where once the First Division was dominated by bosses...
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Farewell from The Football Attic
To those of you that have supported The Football Attic over the last four years…We are very sorry to inform you that today marks the end of our journey into the world of football nostalgia.Our...
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The Football Attic Kit Podcast 01 - Euro 2016
Football Kits! We all love em! Well, Chris & Rich do... so that's why we've decided to open up the Attic once more and dust off some of the lovely kits we've had sitting up there...Yes, the...
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The Football Attic Kit Podcast 02 - Copa America 2016
It's the second instalment of the Football Attic Kit Podcast and this time we take a look at the kits which featured in the recent Copa America. You'll learn all about Colombia and their sky blue and...
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The Football Attic Kit Podcast 03 - Mexico 86
It's podcast No.3 and we've run out of current tournaments to cover the kits of so it's back to the past we go and where better (and more obvious) to start, but Mexico 86?!So, following nearly an hour...
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The Football Attic Kit Podcast 04 - Euro 92
After a slightly extended break, we're back again to talk more about football kit design - and we have another special guest!This time, it's 'Gentleman' John Devlin, creator of True Colours volume 1,...
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