Issue 09

Words Liam MacDevittPhotography Sharif Hamza

Morgan Rogers

PFA Young Player of the Year. England starter. Style icon. Liam MacDevitt meets Morgan Rogers, the footballer who refuses to be just a footballer.

Words Elgar Johnson-ForsterPhotography Charlie Gray

Khadija Shaw

Khadija “Bunny” Shaw is the most lethal striker in women’s football. Elgar Johnson-Forster meets the woman who just won everything – and is only getting started

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

Words Pete KilfordPhotography William Selden

The Ravens

Andy Woodman walked out of Arsenal to manage a club with 800 fans. Two promotions later, he is taking Bromley into League One. Pete Kilford went to find out how

Photography Angelina Mamoun-Bergenwall

Press Gang

After the final whistle, the real show starts. The lights are on, the microphones are live, the questions are coming, the looks are ready. CZ8 presents key looks for the moment when the game is over and the real performance begins, inspired by the most scrutinised two minutes in sport.

Words Tom WardPhotography Elliott Morgan

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 Jack StanleyPhotography Charlie Cummings

Josh Kerr

Josh Kerr celebrates victories by pretending to sleep, and he’s just broken the hardest world record in track athletics. He tells Jack Stanley why the mile belongs to Britain.

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

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.

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

Photography David English

Formation

Are you 4-4-2 or 3-5-2 , whatever the line up, we have the best formation of products ahead of any big game.

If you build it, they will come

Will the World Cup make America love football?

Words Nick Davie

TIFOSI

‘TIFO’, historically linking to a type of ‘fever’, as it describes the emotional, almost delirious intensity of football fandom.

Photography SCANDEBERGS

Photography Robbie Mailer-Howat

Fandom

Every nation. Every obsession. Every outfit. From Rio to Osaka, from the terraces to the touchline, a fashion story for the people who make football what it actually is; the fans who live and die by the game – and always look good doing it