16th Mar 2021
Object of the week: Everton v Liverpool programme
This is the match programme from last spring’s Merseyside derby at Goodison Park – a match which didn’t go ahead.
Collection Stories
10th Mar 2021
Object of the Week: Burnden Park Disaster programme
This week marked the 75th anniversary of the Burnden Park disaster. We look at an object from our collections connected to the ill-fated match in 1946.
2nd Mar 2021
Object of the Week: Billy Meredith
With St David’s Day this week and the Manchester derby this weekend, this week’s Object of the Week focuses on an object from the museum’s collection relating to a significant figure in the history of Welsh football and both Manchester clubs.
23rd Feb 2021
Object of The Week: Hope Powell portrait by Stanley Chow
This week’s Object of the Week is a portrait of Hope Powell by Manchester artist Stanley Chow. Tilly Johnson explores the career of one of English football’s most important figures.
16th Feb 2021
It’s not about results or multi-million pound salaries, it’s how football can change lives – Jane Bateman
Jane Bateman has developed football networks around the globe for more than 20 years leading The Football Association’s International Relations Team. But it’s delivering programmes around football and social change that she feels are the most rewarding.
12th Feb 2021
Object of the Week: Valentine’s Day card
Love is in the air (sort of) in our latest Object of the Week: a humorous old-timey Valentine’s Day card.
10th Feb 2021
Anita Asante: Meeting Obama, the Olympics, Arsenal glory, and the future…
Aston Villa and England’s Anita Asante reflects on highlights from her football career and what needs to be done to tackle discrimination in the game she loves.
3rd Feb 2021
Object of the Week: Manchester United signed menu card 5 February 1958
This dinner menu card from the Hotel Majestic in Belgrade is signed by the Manchester United team who would be struck by tragedy the next day.
27th Jan 2021
Object of the week: Bristol Rovers Gas Girls’ shirt
This stunning football shirt is both stylish and supports equality. Harriet Dean, on student placement with the museum, talks about this Gas Girls’ garment…
21st Jan 2021
Object of the week: John Motson’s sheepskin coat
It’s 30 years (December 1990) since John Motson appeared at Wycombe Wanderers’ Adams park battling snow gusts in his sheepskin coat. We look at the key piece of the legendary commentator’s winter wardrobe.
13th Jan 2021
Colin Bell: “The reluctant hero who was King of the Kippax”
Our curator Peter Holme writes about his hero – the late, great Colin Bell.
25th Nov 2020
Meeting Diego Maradona
Sporting Memories group member Tony Haggerty on the time he was lucky enough to meet football royalty, El Diego.