Football Culture | The People's Archive ®

Our archive highlighting the popularity of football fandom and culture in the UK, 1950s-2000.

Salford, 1968.
Salford, 1968.

Photo © Lee Heywood/The People’s Archive.

Chelsea Fans, London, 1969.
Chelsea Fans, London, 1969.

Photo © Jimmy Nugent/The People’s Archive®

“Myself and my Dad and some mates. This was taken before the 1969 Cup Final. Chelsea Played Tottenham Hotspurs. We Lost…..We hired the Monkey from a Gypsy for the photo it cost 5 shillings.”

Man City Fan Scully in Kirkby, 1970s.
Man City Fan Scully in Kirkby, 1970s.

Photo © Scully/The People’s Archive.

Liverpool Fan in Rome, 1977.
Rome, 1977.

Photo © Sam Porter/The People’s Archive.

A Liverpool fan in Rome for the European Cup Final against Borussia Mönchengladbach. 25th May, 1977.

Glasgow, 1970s.
Queens Park, Glasgow, 1977.

Photo © Martin McFaul/The People’s Archive.

Subbuteo Footballl Game, Bristol, 1970s.
A game of Subbuteo. Bristol, 1970s.

Photo © Steve Chapple/The People’s Archive®

A Liverpool Fan in Wigan, 1981.
A Liverpool Fan in Wigan, 1981.

Photo © The People’s Archive®

Luton, 1982.
Keeping it Casual. Luton, 1982.

Photo © Harrison Jones/The People’s Archive®

Liverpool, 1984.
Liverpool, 1984.

Photo © Paul Kayley/The People’s Archive®

Paul “This was taken in 1984 at Jacob’s Sports & Social Club when Everton won the FA Cup. It’s my Nan (and Joe her “fancy fella’ as my mum referred to him).”

Coventry City Fans on the way to Wembley, 1987.
Coventry City Fans on the way to Wembley, 1987.

Photo © Mitchell Batchelor/The People’s Archive®

Coventry City FA Cup Parade, 1987.
Coventry City FA Cup Parade, 1987.

Photo © William Leigh/The People’s Archive®

“A photo of myself aged 9 at the Coventry City FC Sky Blues Cup Tour in Coventry. It looks like something out of communist Russia! I love that loads of people had got on to the roof of the Belgrade. Health and Safety!”

Oakworth, West Yorkshire, 1987.
Oakworth, West Yorkshire, 1987.

Photo © Johnny/Mozzarella/The People’s Archive®

Keep-Ups on Redcar Beach, 1990s.
Keep Ups on Redcar Beach, early 1990s.

Photo © Mark Wall/The People’s Archive.

Mark: “Taken by my dad in the early 90s. Playing keep ups on a bleak looking Redcar beach, with South Gare Steelworks kicking out god knows what in the background.”

Rochdale, 1994.
Rochdale, 1994.

Photo © Tom Wardle/The People’s Archive®

Tom “A Couple of my mates James and Blair having a kick about on Clement Royds Street.”

Carrington Power Station, 1994.
Carrington Power Station, 1994.

Photo © Andrew Smith/The People’s Archive®

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