Being an Ipswich boy whose family mostly comes from Felixstowe, I've avoided doing a #GetTheBadgeIn for the Seasiders, mostly because I've wanted to do them justice and not rush it, as there is a huge history and heritage behind both towns. Another reason has been that the current badge is actually quite a tricky one as a launch pad. It clearly symbolises the coming together of the two teams into one... and little else. So, a while back I did create a sort of tongue-in-cheek,

Ajax have had a recent reputation for producing utterly striking and beautiful kits. I suppose, being named after a Greek hero, Ajaz FC have always been looking to stand out. Their 2025/26 away shirt may quietly be one of the most historically loaded kits in modern football. Many a team has produced a ‘wavy’ kit to indicate their town’s relationship with the sea. But few can boast that their connection to the sea has been as impactful as that of Amsterdam’s. Because it was fr

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

Cape Verde, population 500,000, have qualified for the last 32 of the World Cup. A remarkable feat which saw them take points from Spain, Uruguay and Saudi Arabia, finishing second in their group above former World Cup champions Uruguay. Simply incredible. Their 40-year-old goalkeeper, Vozinha, went viral after a string of heroic saves kept a clean sheet against Spain. Overnight he went from 50,000 Instagram followers to 16 million. The day of the "Blue Sharks", as their nati