15th Apr 2025
Black in the Game: Bruce Dyer
Uma Ghelani on the career of forward Bruce Dyer, the first Black seven-figure teenager in English football history.
Collection Stories
14th Apr 2025
Mitre: England’s longest-running sports manufacturer?
Mitre’s progression from a Huddersfield tannery to one of England’s premier football manufacturers.
27th Mar 2025
Sing When You’re Winning? The rise and fall of songsheets
Looking back at a time when supporters almost literally sung from the same hymn sheet, via a songsheet produced for the 1964 FA Cup Final.
7th Mar 2025
Manchester United v Arsenal: Battles, brawls and brilliant goals
While not as geographical or historical as other club rivalries, there’s absolutely no love lost between Manchester United and Arsenal.
26th Feb 2025
7,000 miles from home: Everton v Spurs
A look at the first game played between two professional teams in the Americas: Everton v Tottenham Hotspur in 1909.
30th Jan 2025
Frank Swift’s medals
A look at Frank Swift’s medal collection, including Sportsman of the Year and FA Cup honours.
10th Jan 2025
Arsenal v Manchester United: FA Cup Classics
A look at some of the key FA Cup fixtures between Arsenal and Manchester United over the decades.
10th Jan 2025
The first ever FA Cup Final
The story of the very first FA Cup Final in 1872, told through one of our objects: the only known surviving medal awarded to the winners.
5th Jan 2025
FA Cup: Third Round shocks
The January giant-killing round is upon us! We look at five of our favourite cup upsets from the Third Round of the FA Cup, featuring top-tier shocks and player sackings, career-making goals and nigh-impossible results.
19th Dec 2024
The colourful life of Jack Hillman
Beth Williamson looks at the colourful career of goalkeeper Jack Hillman, an FA Cup winner with Manchester City in 1904.
5th Dec 2024
England v Germany: a dark day in football history
Beth Williamson on one of the dark days in our national side’s history: England v Germany, where the Swastika was flown at White Hart Lane.
22nd Nov 2024
QPR Ladies: WFA Cup winners, 47 years on
A very special visit from members of the Queen’s Park Rangers Ladies side that lifted the 1977 WFA Cup.