Monday 11s – Number 10s squad numbers quiz
Another instalment of our weekly quiz – we’ve almost gone through the entire 11!
Italy’s appropriately named goalkeepers at Euro 68
No matter how much one may try to be cool, it’s hard not to descend to the levels of screaming schoolgirls at a One Direction gig when David Squires acknowledges …
José Molina’s debut for Spain
As a goalkeeper earning his living in Spain, José Molina unsurprisingly either wore 1 or 13 at club level for Atlético Madrid, Deportivo La Coruña and Levante. An unused squad member …
A 2002 Gooner fanzine article about retiring numbers
During a recent house move, we came across a lot of old magazines, including an edition of Arsenal fanzine The Gooner from 2002, in which Brian Dawes argues against the …
Scotland’s dalliance with names on shirts, 1979-81
Our friend Simon Shakeshaft wrote this piece for the current edition of Programme Monthly and has kindly shared it with us. To everybody going, there was nothing unusual about Scotland entertaining Peru …
1994 – Liverpool’s aborted re-numbering attempt
It’s always frustrating when you have a clear memory of something, but can’t corroborate it. I could recall reading a piece on the coming season’s squad numbers in Match magazine …
Bony? Em…
Swansea City made a couple of additions on Deadline Day yesterday. Young Portuguese midfielder Renato Sanches joined on a season-long loan from Bayern Munich and initially the Swans announced that …
Lucas Perez feels insulted – but he’s not the first to lose the Arsenal number 9
Lucas Perez is not a happy man. Having joined Arsenal from Deportivo de La Coruña late in the transfer window of summer 2016, he found game-time hard to come by, …
Sheffield Wednesday re-impose some numbering order
Sheffield Wednesday have announced their squad numbers for the coming season. You’ll recall that, a year ago, the Owls’ numbers for 2016-17 were a topic of conversation for their unconventionality, …
O’Neills deal with Cork’s unusual request
When we wrote about the possibility of a number 9 England goalkeeper shirt a few days ago, little did we realise that a similar modern-day example was about to take …