The Football Shirts Book


Book Description

They think it’s all over...it is now, with this comprehensive guide to football shirts through the years. From the obscure to the ubiquitous, The Football Shirts Book is packed with over 150 original and super rare shirts from the greatest game on earth. Covering everything from the iconic to the unusual, even the most hard-core fans will find out something new about the kit of their favourite team. Including full-colour photography, as well as interviews with football shirt design teams, musicians, and fashion designers, this guide offers a full exploration of the brands, design, and sponsorship history behind the world’s best-loved football shirts. It is a must-have for those crazy about football shirts, as well as those whose interest is piqued by history, design, and pop-culture.







The Football Shirt


Book Description

Ross has been saving for a football top of his favourite team for ages, but doesn't think he'll ever afford it. When he sees one pinned to a tree, commemorating the death of a young boy, he can't resist taking it - but Ross gets more than he bargains for, and finds having the shirt comes at a dreadful price.







A Culture of Kits


Book Description

Drawing on intel from experts and global collectors, this book provides the ultimate guide to classic football-shirt collecting. What elevates a shirt's status? Who is buying? Are shirts an investment? This book lifts the lid on the booming business behind the growing culture and community of classic football shirts.




Kit and Community


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Kit and Community digs beneath the surface of inspirational designs to reveal the incredible causes that use football shirts to spread their message. This innovative book - with a foreword by The Price of Football's Kieran Maguire and a chapter from Football 365's John Nicholson - proves beyond doubt that every shirt has a story to tell.




1000 Football Shirts O/P


Book Description

"The most comprehensive collection ever assembled of iconic football shirts, featuring more than 1,000 illustrations representing 100 countries and 500 teams. In addition to detailing the colourful histories behind legendary shirts, this book also highlights the key players of important matches and celebrates memorable victories. Inside you'll discover why Pelé wore number 10, why the Italian national team plays in blues, and why the us women's team boasts two stars on its jersey. Football shirts have always been of paramount importance to the game, creating a unique visual identity for each national and club team. Open this book and you'll travel around the world and through time in 1,000 shirts, from Arsenal to Zenit, finding the most loved, most beautidul and most off-the-wall shirts along the way." --Cover.




Pretty Poly


Book Description

Pretty Polytells the story of the football shirt, charting its dramatic evolution over a 150-year period, from modest beginnings to a product at the centre of a billion-dollar industry. Packed with facts, figures and anecdotes, it uncovers the history embedded in every feature of modern-day strips, from necklines to namesets.




Shirt Tales and Short Stories


Book Description

At last, a chance for soccer fans of a certain vintage to sigh over the striking, muddy simplicity of some proper footy kits. With illustrations by John "True Colours" Devlin and all the kit-happy stories, soccer stickers, and vintage memorabilia that you'd expect, Shirt Tales & Short Stories whisks you back to the lost world of classic kits.