An England goalkeeper shirt with 9 on the back?
Thanks to Lee Hermitage for the picture from Ted Croker’s book. We’ve mentioned England’s numbering at the 1982 World Cup in a previous post about sides who allocated digits alphabetically …
1999 – Arsenal come so close to 1-11
In the past, we’ve looked at Arsenal’s experiment at the end of 1993-94, opting to go 1-11 with names on shirts rather than using squad numbers. That didn’t last too …
Quiz – a blast from the past
And you thought Monday 11s was hard… This quiz appeared in the dearly departed Shoot! of April 6, 1991. Kudos to anyone who can get full marks, answers below. Answers David …
Ice hockey numbers – a lot to do with train-ing
Obviously, the focus here most of the time is the shirt numbers worn in football, but other sports are of interest to us too, and hopefully you might also might …
Alan Shearer a perfect 10 on his England debut
Alan Shearer was the archetypal British centre-forward, a true all-rounder – while he was good in the air, it didn’t always have to be with his head, his penalties were …
The power behind Ricky Villa’s five-star FA Cup final winner in 1981
This is the Tottenham Hotspur team which started the 1981 FA Cup final against Manchester City, the game finishing 1-1 after extra time, with Manchester City’s Tommy Hutchison putting his …
James McClean to honour Ryan McBride by wearing 5 for Ireland
Instances of players wearing number 5 while operating as wide midfielders are not too plentiful. There was Lee Sharpe at Manchester United and Ruel Fox at Newcastle United in the …
Cantona was twice the player at Leeds
This post had been intended to be about just one thing – a kind-of example of squad numbers in the Football League in the 1-11 days – but further digging brought …
Ayew joking? 3 up front strikes again
Not so long ago, we marked Morgan Schneiderlin’s arrival at Everton by citing the other hooligans to have worn full-backs’ numbers in midfield. It should of course go without saying …
Monday 11s – 1993/94 squad number quiz
Welcome to the latest edition of Monday 11s, our weekly quiz. This week, we’re going back in time to the 1993-94 season, the first in which Premier League teams assigned …