Matchday Memories

Secret Santa Gifts For Football Fans

Secret Santa Brings Strange Gifts

Santa is a football fan too !

One good thing austerity might have done is to restore the real value of gift giving. The excesses of the past may have had some kids thinking the more they spend on me the more they love me and some people thinking the higher the cost of a gift the better it will be received, nothing could be further from the truth. Although, feel…

Bonfire Night or Football ?

Used to love bonfire night as a kid. Well above birthdays and christmas even. But it was longer then one day for us, we used to go around for weeks collecting wood from around all the houses and gardens.

I lived in a street where after every tenth of so terrace house the was a yard and the houses with gardens. The address of such a house would be let ours at the time No.2 Back of No.69. And…

Gift ideas for a football supporter

The big problem with buying themed gifts like football memorabilia is often the gift buyers don’t know a lot about the subject. So here’s a few ideas for gifts that will thrill your “victim”.

Football memorabilia covers the full range from low price little extra items to a major investment items at £500 or more. If you are going to invest a reasonable amount it’s worth making sure you know some…

Faking it part two – Examples of Rake World Cup Tickets

Ebay provides the perfect platform for selling fakes or counterfeit items. Fake memorabilia is only a small part of the corruption that takes place everyday both there and on Facebook. So let’s start with some advice that may save you some money. Number One, try only to trade with reputable people, it may cost a little more but not always. But if you are thinking of a trade with stranger try to…

In a drunken haze, Homer Simpson once said “everything looks bad if you remember it” – a reverse spin on the sentimental glow so often favoured when looking back over our shoulders down memory lane. Before I sat down to write this I too wanted to double check that what I recall wasn’t contaminated by a longing for lost youth; that those glorious days were in fact nothing more than a few weeks of…

Faking it part one – World Cup Football Tickets

Welcome to a new section of our football memorabilia blog. Here we will try to introduce you to the pitfalls of collecting by revealing how you can spot fakes and avoid disappointments when buying football memorabilia like tickets and cup final football programmes. It must be said we are by no means experts at spotting fakes but over the years we have cobbled together information gained from our…

I’d set them all out carefully before I ran downstairs for breakfast. Mum had been calling me for ages and I knew we were running late but I needed to get the formations right. It was Brazil v Peru and I’d be spending most of the day at school looking forward to it. Looking over my shoulder one more time I took in the wonderful sight of 20 round discs on the green baize on my bedroom floor and…

Promoting Football Memorabilia On Facebook

Here are the ways we are giving back to the football memorabilia community. We feel it’s important to keep football memorabilia interest alive, as an hobby, interest or investment. So much has changed since 1992 as as all the record books promoted by the media now seem to start there. Making a mockery of the 200+ years before TV money came into the game. Sure they’ll troll back if it suits their…

Over the last few weeks we’ve had our tool box out to make the site faster and more accessible. We are always looking for feedback and comments so please keep that in mind when using our site. In these days when everyone is so busy we really do appreciate it when people take the time to contact us if the see an issue with the site or have a suggestion on how we can do things better.

This latest…

We’ve extended our discounts from just the weekend to the whole week !

These are automatice discounts. For our UK customers once you spend £10 you’ll get free delivery on your order. For example if you buy five magazines the total price is £10.00 normally you would expect postage of at least £3.00 added to your order. This is now free so the saving on that order is in fact at least 30% !!

We’ve…

Discounts – Tell Us What You Want Most

From time to time we have a sale or do a special discount period. These are always popular with our regular customers and also it’s a good chance for us to introduce our service to new customers. But when we decide it’s about the right time for a sale we always find it difficult deciding which type of offer suits you the customer best.

Our prices are kept tight and so the is limit movement in…

The Programme Collector – Life in days

I suspect that similarly to a lot of football programme collectors, I fell into the hobby somewhat by accident. When I was a kid, my dad’s job meant we had to move house every couple of years. One of the ways that he kept my brother and I as happy as possible with this arrangement was by taking us to watch whoever the new local football team happened to be.

When I was about nine we pitched up in…

It’s recently come to our attention that a similar name to our trading name is being used as a Facebook page by someone other then us. Our Facebook page suffers from our old trading name and Facebook won’t let us change it. So to try and prevent any further confusion we have created a new Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/MatchDayMemoriesShop

We are now using this new page to update our…