Showboat Editorial
The Five Best Shirts Uploaded to Showboat This Week
4 minute read
Community
We’re back with one of our most topical, and potentially controversial, weekly articles: The Five Best Shirts Uploaded to Showboat This Week. As with... read more »
Has Football Become Posh Enough for Burberry?
9 minute read
Deep Dives | Features | Kit Culture
Twenty years ago, Burberry’s famous check was associated with football hooligans and a tabloid caricature of working-class Britain. Now the fashion... read more »
Chivas, Nike and the Art of Dressing Like a Mexican Cowboy
8 minute read
Kit Culture | New Drops
A black and gold football shirt, a 120-year-old club crest and a little inspiration from Mexico’s national sport. Nike’s latest creation... read more »
Barcelona, Tyler, The Creator and the Art of the Clásico Shirt
10 minute read
Deep Dives | New Drops
Barcelona have unveiled their latest collaboration with Spotify, placing Tyler, The Creator’s GOLF WANG logo on the front of their shirt for El... read more »
Shirts Sponsored By… Cars: When Football and Motoring Went Hand in Hand
9 minute read
Features
There was a time when football shirts were as likely to advertise a family saloon as a bank, airline or gambling company. Car manufacturers were... read more »
The Thread: Le Coq Sportif and Italy
5 minute read
Deep Dives | Features | Kit Culture | The Thread
Some football partnerships become part of the furniture. Adidas and Germany, Nike and Brazil, Puma and Italy for much of the modern era. Le Coq... read more »
The Match review: the poetry of football and the power of images
8 minute read
New Drops
There are very few football matches that can sustain a feature-length documentary forty years after the final whistle, particularly when almost everybody... read more »
Spezia Have Gone Right Back to the Beginning
4 minute read
New Drops
Anniversary shirts have become so common that it is easy to become numb to them. Change the badge, remove the sponsor, add a date inside the collar and call it... read more »
The Best Five Football Shirts Uploaded to Showboat in September
4 minute read
Community | Guides
It's been our biggest ever month to date here at Showboat. We had north of 25,000 shirts uploaded onto our app in a single month. And it wasn't even a... read more »