Kit and Community. Publication date: July 15, 2024

Key features
Discover the unique stories behind inspirational and
meaningful football-shirt designs
• Interviews and exclusive access to designers, producers and
campaigners using shirts to tell their story
• Foreword by highly respected football-finance expert
Kieran Maguire
• Chapter written by Football 365’s John Nicholson
• Allows the people who make the shirts to share their
memories along with tales of inspiration and ethics.

Kit and Community digs beneath the surface of inspirational and meaningful designs to reveal the incredible causes that use football shirts to spread their message. Starting with Stanno’s Shirt, we meet Gig and Roger, the parents of Exeter City legend Adam
Stansfield, who was cut down by cancer at the heartbreaking age of 31,. Gig and Roger share how their son’s shirts meant, and still mean, so much to them. Additionally, York City photographers Kieran Archer, Chris Payne, and Tom Poole created the club's stunning centennial shirt, which honors the region's rich chocolate-making heritage with stunning images. The trio describe every step of the design process. Plus, in a joyously inspirational interview, Tania and Jayme from Football Shirts FC (for charity)
discuss their mission to use shirts to support cancer charities close to their hearts. As these and other accounts in this innovative book show us, every shirt has a unique story to tell.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Matt Riley worked as a journalist in Thai football for many years, appearing regularly on the Fox Sports Central nightly show beamed across Asia, before returning to England as a lecturer in business Management at the University of Exeter. This is his fourth book, published through Pitch.

Publication: 15 July 2024
Price: £19.99
ISBN 13: 9781801507356
Format: 222mm x 144mm
Binding: Hardback
Extent: 272 pages