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...
by 10Footballs | Nov 29, 2025 | Articles
Arsenal’s history is packed with drama: last-minute title wins, classic Wembley finals and unforgettable European nights. For collectors, the magic of those occasions lives on in the matchday programmes. Arsenal programmes do more than list the teams – they capture a...
