Monday 11s – Goalkeeper squad number quiz
Welcome to the latest edition of Monday 11s, our weekly quiz. This week, we’re taking a look at goalkeepers and the numbers they don for club and country. Let us …
Our new favourite Dutch team
As regular readers of the blog will know, the Netherlands have featured heavily here. The country was at the vanguard of the alphabetical numbering movement, it fielded 1-11 in two consecutive …
‘Mark no. 6!’ ‘Which one?’
Friend of the site Jay from Design Football – the brains behind the excellent podcast of the same name – asked us an intriguing question recently: have there been instances, apart …
The Netherlands’ World Cup Rehabilitation
We’ve already looked at alphabatical numbering at the World Cup and the role the Netherlands played in that. While the 1974 numbering was acceptable (bar Johan Cruyff’s ego), the 1978 system …
Alphabetical numbering systems at the World Cup
First off, a confession. Here at this blog, we’re awful snobs with an inflated sense of self-worth. If you read any article about numbering in football, the chances are that …