The smell of football is so enshrined you can imagine it as a recipe: 200g of fried onions, one tablespoon of cigarettes and a pinch of urine. Less is said about the feel of the game, maybe because so ...

For a great many football fans an essential thing to do when going to watch a game is to buy the match-day programme. Yet as Paul Matz, editor of collectors' magazine, Programme Monthly, admits, some ...

THE EARLIEST GAA match programmes were never intended to be a souvenir, or take the form of a collector’s item. They were designed to fit inside a coat pocket and were actually considered useless once ...