by 10Footballs | Dec 31, 2025 | Articles
There’s something magic about finding football history in an unexpected place. One minute you’re walking past boxes of old records and random kitchenware, the next you’ve spotted a stack of old football programmes tucked under a trestle table. For collectors, markets...
by 10Footballs | Dec 31, 2025 | Articles
There are bad days in sport, and then there is 29 June 1950 – the afternoon when England contrived to lose to a team of American semi-pros at the World Cup in Brazil, while the West Indies spun them to a historic defeat at Lord’s. For collectors, the programmes and...
by 10Footballs | Dec 31, 2025 | Articles
Liverpool’s history is packed with big nights, bigger trophies and some of the most passionate support in the game. It is no surprise, then, that Liverpool programmes are among the most collected and talked-about items in the hobby. From fragile pre-war issues to...
by 10Footballs | Dec 30, 2025 | Articles
Walk into any collector’s home and you’ll often find the same thing: boxes carefully labelled by club, season or competition, stacks protected in sleeves, and a few prized issues displayed like artwork. To some, it might look like paper. To collectors, old football...
by 10Footballs | Dec 16, 2025 | Articles
If you really want to feel the history of football, you do not have to rely on grainy clips, statistics or half-remembered stories. You can hold it in your hands. Football programmes – the flimsy booklets bought at the turnstiles for a few pennies or pounds – are some...
by 10Footballs | Dec 16, 2025 | Articles
Between the early 1930s and the late 1940s, England v Italy was never just another international. On one side you had England, self-appointed guardians of the game, proudly aloof from the World Cup in their “splendido isolamento”. On the other, Italy – back-to-back...
