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...
by 10Footballs | Dec 16, 2025 | Articles
On 14 December 1935, Aston Villa hosted Arsenal at Villa Park in what, on paper, looked like a tough First Division fixture. Instead, it became one of the most extraordinary afternoons in English football history. Arsenal’s centre forward Ted Drake scored all seven...
by 10Footballs | Dec 16, 2025 | Articles
Some football programmes record a match. A few capture a moment. The Everton v Arsenal issue dated 5 May 1928 does something more unusual – it freezes the exact afternoon when William Ralph “Dixie” Dean turned himself into a legend, hitting 60 league goals in a single...
by 10Footballs | Nov 29, 2025 | Articles
“My dad always said you have to be mad to be a goalkeeper.” For a lot of us, that line sounds like a joke about the kid who gets stuck in nets because no one else fancies it. But for older generations, it had a far more serious edge. It came from a time when...
