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The stories that shape the world around sport — from street culture to fine art, music to movement.

22 Articles

Calcio 2.0

Embedded within Italian history is the ancestor of rugby and football : Calcio Storico Fiorentino. A brutal sport where only the strong survive, wrapped up in Renaissance costume reimagined for 2026. This is calcio 2.0

Photography Theo Mccines

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TINIE TEMPAH

The London rapper talks Jiu Jitsu with Tom Hardy, the power of sport, and why footballers want to be musicians. Tom Ward takes note

Words Tom WardPhotography Elliott Morgan

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Got, Got, Need!

980 stickers. 48 nations. Billions of packets. We meet the woman steering the world’s most obsessive collecting ritual into the biggest World Cup ever staged

Words Nick Davie

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The Art of Football

Picasso painted footballers. Warhol screen-printed Pelé. Now three of North America’s greatest museums have stepped into the 2026 World Cup.

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Into the Street

Sarah Hardacre's Barrow parade revives the town's forgotten women footballers, from the banned WWI-era Barrow Munitions Girls to Lioness Georgia Stanway, tracing a century of women's football pushed underground and back into the street.

Words Nick Davie

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If you build it, they will come

Will the World Cup make America love football?

Words Nick Davie

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Worn Worldwide

How '47's Clean Up Cap Became the Hat That Fits Everyone

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Woven By Hand

For its third home World Cup, Mexico will wear a shirt embroidered by hand.

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The Vintage Showroom

A repository of garments whose craftsmanship and character have long outlived their original owners.

Words Tayler WillsonPhotography Philip Sinden

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Saul Nash

The designer launches his first-ever ballet commission for Wayne McGregor's Alchemies. An evening of pure poetry and power, Alchemies features the anticipated premiere alongside the Company’s first revivals of Yugen and Untitled, 2023.