This one is a bit late coming, but I've finally managed to get this shirt in the end-of-season sale. And it is a beauty - one that tells a remarkable, and not widely known, story. Wrexham's 2025 third shirt tells the story of an entire nation - on the other side of the world. And that takes some explaining for a North Wales mining town - so let's dig a little deeper and #GetTheShirtIn: It all begins, as so often in history, with a guy with an incredible beard. Welsh nationali

At first glance, this one is another soulless logo. A vain attempt to create a funky-looking logo that mimics the New York Yankees' famous "interlocking monogram" badge that adorns a gazillion baseball caps around the world. That the club is now also part of the City Group and appears to follow the round crest template used by Manchester City, Melbourne City, Montevideo City, etc., etc. (check them all out - they have a standard-looking "corporate style") doesn't fill the hea

When you travel east across Singapore, away from the towers of the central city, you eventually bump into an area called Tampines - named after a tree. The tempinis tree (or to be precise the ‘streblus elongatus’ – which sounds like something from Monty Python) is known for its hardy wood that once grew in thick forests in the area. Today they are few and far between - for obvious reasons a ready supply of excellent building timber was useful to not just the expanding city of

Ghana played a great game against England in the group stages of the 2026 World Cup. Their disciplined low block never looked like breaking and, no matter how many of its superstars England threw at them, the Ghanaians held firm and looked dangerous on the break. Ghana's "Black Stars" are one of African football's great names - four-time AFCON champions, lifting the trophy in 1963, 1965, 1978 and 1982, and so dominant that they earned the right to keep the original trophy. Th