Collections Stories
Looking to learn more of the stories behind the objects?
Delve into the fascinating history of our extensive collection. Below you will find blogs, articles, Q&As and features on our favourite objects, unlocking the stories within each item and exploring what makes football the game of our lives. This is also where we will be revealing our Object of the Week, showcasing some of the fascinating items from our ever-growing collection. Check here every Thursday for the latest insight and opinion from our museum curators and experts.
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Object of the Week: Transfers, Contracts and Wages
21 January 2022
With the January transfer window closing soon, Uma Ghelani takes a look at the history of player contracts and transfers.
Twelve Games of Christmas: That Half-Time Team Talk
25 December 2021
Our final game of Christmas looks at the most famous team talk of all: Phil Brown's dressing-down on Boxing Day 2008.
Twelve Games of Christmas: Christmas Cracker at the Bridge
24 December 2021
A remarkable Boxing Day at Stamford Bridge, featuring eight goals, three red cards and two penalties and late drama.
Twelve Games of Christmas: Seven goals a-scoring
23 December 2021
The day Tottenham Hotspur were stuffed like a turkey by a gluttonous Newcastle United up at St. James' Park.
Twelve Games of Christmas: And It’s Live…
22 December 2021
The first festive fixture to be shown live on national television: title chasers Norwich City against relegation-threatened West Ham United in 1988.
Twelve Games of Christmas: Man Utd v Liverpool
21 December 2021
Liverpool's 1978 Boxing Day defeat of Manchester United in their own back yard, and the history of a North West rivalry.
Twelve Games of Christmas: Last Christmas
20 December 2021
The rise and fall of Christmas Day football, which culminated in one final game at Blackpool's Bloomfield Road in 1965.
Twelve Games of Christmas: Boxing Day 1963
19 December 2021
The day Christmas came one day late for football fans across the country: the goal glut of Boxing Day 1963.
Twelve Games of Christmas: The Second World War
18 December 2021
Revisiting football during wartime Britain - including Brighton's infamous Christmas Day trip to Norwich City in 1940...
Twelve Games of Christmas: Dick, Kerr Ladies
17 December 2021
The significance of the bumper Boxing Day match between Dick, Kerr Ladies and St. Helen's Ladies at Goodison Park in 1920.
