Monthly Archives: December 2015

With football match crowds easily outnumbering church-goers, the beautiful game has become as close to a religion as many ever experience. With this in mind, designers Miguel Sousa and Francisco Pancho Cassis have flipped the idea, and have developed some football kits for a fictitious World Cup of Religions. See the images on TheModernGame.

The BBC has apologised to the former Aston Villa chairman Sir Doug Ellis after a subtitler mistakenly linked him with Hezbollah. “Great to see Doug Ellis here in his Villa scarf,” said the Match of the Day commentator Steve Wilson. However, those words were somehow misinterpreted by the subtitler and the sentence, “Great to see Doug Ellis here with Hezbollah” … Continue reading →

Soccer passion in the US is fast catching up with Europe. Portland Timber fans now put on a show beyond anything you’ll see on England’s terraces. The time, creativity and effort that the Timbers Army puts into their tifo displays would put most Broadway musicals to shame. Watch here and read about how they do it here. Mind-blowing.

It’s December, Christmas is coming and we’re in the festive mood. If you follow @savilerogue on Twitter you will see our 12 days of Christmas competitions with lots of lovely cashmere hats, scarves and gloves to be won this month. Use your wit to make us smile and you might end up with a prize.