Sport and more specifically football has always gone hand-in-hand with memorabilia. The fun doesn’t just stop at spending north of £100 for a ticket, £8 for a flat beer and fiver for a cold chicken balti pie, there’s so much more you can spend your hard-earned money on…

Club Pins

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Now normally we wouldn’t endorse the purchase of an opposition’s colours, whether that comes in a badge, a scarf (more on that later) or the ultimate sacrilege, a shirt but this we rather like! As one of our followers @j.mallete pointed out, it might look nice but ‘what happens when you start drawing all London Prem teams’. For now however, it’s a thing of beauty.

Half-And-Half Scarfs

No list of good and bad football memorabilia is complete without a mention of the half-and-half scarf! It’s become the norm in modern football but that is more a signal of what has become of the beautiful game! Some will argue that it’s a momento of those ‘big matches’ but let’s be honest, if you’re waving a scarf around your head with United colours on one end and City on the other, you need to reassess your life choices….or just do us all a favour and stay at home to watch the game!

There have been some absolute shockers on show recently; Chelsea v Arsenal, and that huge rivalry of Liverpool v Derby, but the one that really caught our eye was one lad proudly draping a half-and-half Lidl/Aldi scarf!

Football Figurines

What better way to show your love for your team or your favourite player than a miniature model with an oversized bulbous head! Corinthian figures, known to many of us as simply ‘Bigheads’ stormed onto British shelves in the late 90s. Until then, football collectables were reserved to mainly Panini stickers and Subbuteo. Bigheads brought you the best of both worlds, being able to collect your favourite players, proudly displaying on your window ledge going a little bit jaundice from years of sun exposure.

The Toilet Seat (Steve Brucey Edition)

Now every team is guilty of releasing some quite frankly embarrassing merchandise. From Christmas jumpers to ladies ‘sexy’ underwear, there’s a long list of absolute shockers but quite literally the crappiest of them all, has to be this addition. In 2014, Hull City was about to play in the clubs’ first FA Cup Final, a momentous occasion for any fan! So to commemorate the big occasion, a local Hull firm released a toilet seat with the orange and black club colours on the outside and on the other, their decorated manager (probably not the kind he would have wanted after they gave up a two-goal lead to eventually lose) Steve Bruce!