Pitch Invasion

Photo credit: Hugo* on Flickr, via the Pitch Invasion photo pool.
In the second of our photo series this week on the 2006 World Cup, here’s the unpleasant side of “celebration” from the night France beat Brazil 1-0 in the quarter finals.
The photographer explains:
Paris took to the streets to celebrate, invading the whole Champs-Elysées. Unfortunately, things […]

I’ll let George Vecsey of the New York Times imagine the scene in Pasadena, a town at the foot of the San Gabriel mountains north of Los Angeles. The dateline to his report reads August 13th, 1984.
Just before dusk on Saturday night, the Firestone blimp lumbered into the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains investigating […]

Who doesn’t love 1970s football kits? The simple designs are a thousand times more pleasing to the eye than most modern day shirts. The site footballshirtculture.com has a very impressive page with photos and renderings of each kit from the 1978 World Cup down to the smallest details. Beautifully done.
The most surprising is what is […]