Monthly Archives: February 2014

Manchester City will be trying to win the League Cup for the first time since 1976 when they face Sunderland at Wembley on Sunday. When they last won the competition 38 years ago – against north-east opposition in the shape of Newcastle, if you’re a fan of omens – things were a bit different. For instance, as they completed a … Continue reading →

Marcelo Moya Ochoa is the director of art at BBDO Chile. With a World Cup in South America looming, he’s decided to stare into his crystal ball and imagine what some of the stars of the tournament might look like in 50 years’ time. The results are a glimpse of what 72-year-old Neymar and 76-year-old Arturo Vidal might look like. … Continue reading →

These very clever pieces are the work of British artist Leo Fitzmaurice. He wisely observed that beyond the cliches about writing your team on the back of a fag packet, you could also fashion some very nice kits for them, too. The kits are torn and folded to provide some very neat football-themed origami (and some genuinely interesting 1990s-esque kit … Continue reading →

Belfast-based designer Sean Rainey has created this range of posters celebrating the shirt number typography of some World Cup legends. With the 2014 World Cup fast-approaching, we thought we’d share them with you. We’ve picked out the Diego Maradona print, which is particularly eye-catching, to showcase here, but Bobby Moore, Pele, Franz Beckenbauer, Johan Cruyff and Paolo Rossi’s shirts are … Continue reading →

New Fulham manager Felix Magath could be the man to take up Roberto Mancini’s title as the Premier League’s foremost scarf-wearer. Unlike Mancini, Magath tends not to opt for club colours (so we’ve still got some work to do to get him into a Fulham scarf), although he has done on occasion. But the incoming Cottagers boss does like fine, … Continue reading →

There had been been a lot of ‘one team in Manchester’ talk before last night’s game between Manchester City and Barcelona. Manuel Pellegrini said City were the only team in Manchester this season, Dani Alves claimed that he only found out there was two teams in Manchester quite recently. This scarf salesman didn’t help City’s cause. He relocated from the … Continue reading →

Alan Pardew has proven that Newcastle’s current lack of spending extends to his wardrobe. He raided the club shop for an £8.99 scarf to keep him warm during last night’s 0-4 home drubbing at the hands of Tottenham. The Magpies boss plumped for the NUFC Pegasus scarf – which you can see more clearly here -and it didn’t appear to … Continue reading →

Remember Martijn Reuser? Having come through the ranks at Ajax in the late-1990s, a knee injury held him back from becoming the Dutch international star he was expected to become and he ended his career with just one Holland cap to his name. In 2000, he made the switch to Ipswich Town. Having helped the Tractor Boys to promotion, he … Continue reading →

A photographic campaign has been launched to raise awareness of the current plight of Coventry fans. Sky Blues supporters are forced to travel to Northampton to watch their team’s home games at the moment. Digital agency Green Knight Media is behind the photos. Photojournalist Andy Scaysbrook, a Coventry fan, has been snapping fellow supporters. He said: “I grew up watching … Continue reading →

We always ask you to send us matchday photos of your Savile Rogue scarves in action at the weekend (and many of you do share your photos with us, so thanks for that), although we realise that some of you might be a bit too shy to do that. But we reckon that anyone can stretch to a picture of … Continue reading →