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Liberté Egalité Mbappé

Well, after a month of glorious competition, victory for Les Bleus, and their young talisman, Mbappé, a World Cup winner and scorer in the Final at just 19 years old, all set to be our 21st centur…

2018 It Nearly Came Home

Wow, what a month Gareth Southgate's men gave us! Even the sun shone throughout. In so many of us, hope and expectation swelled to fever pitch.   It was a summer love affair - intense, pas…

2018 England

Our very own, and strictly unofficial, England World Cup postage stamp with a revolutionary figurehead in place of the usual. Lets just hope the team are still in the tournament by the time the pos…

England Expects

To help steady English footballing nerves what better than Horatio Nelson's words. Unisex sizes small (36 inch chest/90cms), medium, (40 inch/100cms), large (44inch/110cms), XL (48 inch/120cms)…

2018 Thirty-two nations

Our  tournament shirt shows all 32 World Cup nations, represented in our unique, strictly unofficial and entirely original postage stamp design, and arranged in their eight intriguing groups. Not …

Bread and Circuses

It was Juvenal, a Roman poet active in the late first and early second century AD, who coined the phrase "Bread and circuses", referring to a superficial means of public appeasement, the generation…

Eusebio

"Black or white we have football under our skin." Eusebio

Fifty years ago Eusebio was one of the stars of the tournament, winning the Golden Boot as top scorer. This was a very different era to now. With few exceptions European football was an all-white t…

City 100

City's injury-time winner at Southampton on the last day of the season gave them 100 points, an historic 2017-18 achievement for the sky blue half of Manchester, and aptly celebrated by our new, an…

United May '68

50 years ago, 29th May '68, it was the red half of Manchester who were celebrating, though curiously, for arguably their greatest ever triumph, Untited played in blue! The first English team to win…

Toujours Arsènal

After 22 years and 17 trophies Arsene Wenger leaves Arsenal at the end of the season. His impact on English football is difficult to exaggerate, and for Gunners fans everywhere we offer this timely…

The Money Game

In the 2016-2017 season newly-promoted Burnley will earn more from the English Premier League TV deal in one season than the entire 42 clubs of the Scottish league will earn from theirs over the ne…

Bill Shankly

"The socialism I believe in is everyone working for each other, everyone having a share of the rewards. It's the way I see football, the way I see life" Bill Shankly

Shankly's red army conquered much of Europe. Bill redistributed the spoils to everyone, bar the blue hordes from Goodison. Unisex sizes small (36inch chest/90cms), medium (40inch/100cms), large (44…

Eric Cantona

"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea" Eric Cantona

A dedicated enigmaticist, Eric was a fan of cod philosophising, coupled with a touch of the eastern art of Kung Fu. Strictly unofficial. Unisex sizes small (36 inch chest/90cms), medium (40inch…

Lev Yashin

"The joy of seeing Yuri Gagarin flying in space is only superseded by the joy of a good penalty save" Lev Yashin

The original black cat, Lev collectivised his penalty area before taking two steps forward, one step back and plucking the ball out of the air. Unisex sizes small (36 inch chest/90cms), Plus!…

1914 Christmas Football Truce

Christmas Day 1914, for a few hours at least 'Greatcoats for Goalposts' as rank and file soldiers from the German and British front lines put down their weapons to have a game of football instead. The…

Shankly Holy Trinity

"At a football club there’s a holy trinity - the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don’t come into it. They are only there to sign the cheques" Holy Trinity

Shankly's dictum of a holy trinity - players, manager and fans - not only firmly puts the global business elites who think they 'own' our football firmly in their place, but is a universal for al…

England 4-2

Never mind the much-disputed third goal, the most famous line in English sporting commentary proves definitively that England's fourth and final goal should never have been allowed. 'Some people ar…

Cristiano Ronaldo

"I do not have to prove anything to anyone." Cristiano Ronaldo

The king of the stepover, and spring-heeled to boot, one of the finest footballers in the world today, who propelled Portugal to winning Euro 2016 with bravura performances before triumphantly lift…

Moore Hurst & Peters

STRICTLY LIMITED EDITION - BESPOKE GARMENT On a classic claret and blue shirt exclusively tailored and manufactured for Philosophy Football, this is a strictly limited edition of just 1112 garm…

Footballer

Small print: 20 years of Philosophy Football 1994-2014 In October 2014 Philosophy Football celebrates 20 years as self-styled 'sporting outfitters of intellectual distinction'. What makes us un…

Striker

Resistance to austerity and 30-goals a season, a striker has the lot for any team looking for industry and action up front. The striker is a player with a touch of class, wear your position with pr…

Philosophy Football.com

The Philosophy Football logo in all its classic glory. Show off your intellectual credentials with t-shirted pride. In navy blue as shown and a wide range of other coloyrs too colours. Sizes …