Mobil Football Club Badges, "all in the correct club colours and they're made of cloth material so you can stitch or stick them on to clothing*..."
* "We do not recommend that the badges be washed as this may have a detrimental effec...
Monday, 28 November 2011
Saturday, 26 November 2011
TV Times: 1970 World Cup preview
Many England fans of a particular vintage rightly look back on the 1966 World Cup as a high water mark in all their time supporting the national team. What's easy to forget, however, is that the following World Cup was the one that had everyone talking. England entered the 1970 World Cup as champions and no-one could fail to get caught up in all the hullabaloo that was generated.Sir Alf Ramsey's team flew out to Mexico to defend their title and back...
Friday, 25 November 2011
My First... Football Kit - Coventry City Home 86/87
I’ll try not to bang on about Mexico 86 too much in any posts I make here, but given it was a hugely pivotal moment in my life, it’s gonna happen. Let’s just all come to peace with that and move on - about six months in fact, for it is now January 1987, having been subsumed by football and discovered in myself a perhaps unhealthy obsession with football kits. (I say unhealthy, I wasn’t doing weird things with them - I just like them... a lot... I’m...
Thursday, 24 November 2011
Wednesday, 23 November 2011
Panini: Europa 80
Europa 80 was the first Panini sticker collection I can remember owning. I still have it in my possession - in fact of all my old sticker albums it's probably my most prized possession. To my astonishment, I recently discovered I'd filled 241 of the 262 spaces in the album. 'Astonishment' in that I don't remember getting so many of the stickers, plus I was only eight years old at the time and shudder at the thought of how much money my parents must...
Friday, 18 November 2011
Holy Grail No.1 - Subbuteo FIFA World Cup Trophy
Search for ‘holy grail’ in Google Images and the results invariably depict some glorious, shimmering, golden cup. There’s also a fair few Monty Python images too, but we’ll skip those. Search in the Football Attic, however, and the results are...well, pretty much the same. As for me, my personal holy grail (actually one of many, but we’ll cover some others later) was also an object of golden beauty, but rather than having once been cradled by the...
Monday, 14 November 2011
Welcome
To paraphrase Samuel Johnson, when a man is tired of modern football, he is tired of life. Vintage football, however, is different.
We've clambered into The Football Attic to relive all that was good about the beautiful game and invite you to join us.
Long before big business and unbridled commercialism took over football, there was much to enjoy about our favourite sport. Whether it was collecting Panini stickers, playing Subbuteo or watching The Big Match on a Sunday afternoon, you couldn't fail to feel a tingle of excitement as the world of...
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