How Heat and Weather Change the Way Football Is Played
English football has a reputation for being played in rain and cold, and most of it is. But the season now starts in the warmth…
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English football has a reputation for being played in rain and cold, and most of it is. But the season now starts in the warmth…
Complaints about the fixture list are as old as professional football, and for a long time they were treated as managers making excuses. The science…
A children’s football shirt has a harder life than an adult’s by a wide margin. It gets played in rather than watched in, it meets…
Two shirts can be made of the same material and perform completely differently. The fibre is only the starting point. What determines whether a kit…
White home kits are the hardest thing to buy cheaply and the easiest thing to get wrong. Every production shortcut that a coloured shirt hides,…
English football has a reputation for being played in rain and cold, and most of…