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• About Me | The Beautiful History

  My name is Han, I originate from The Netherlands and I’m a passionate football chroniqueur; not by profession but by nature. In the past, I’ve been covering nationwide amateur and professional footbal...

• Crests | The Beautiful History

  The main function of the club emblem is to intensify feelings of club loyalty with a unique visual motif. It also acts as a label of identity appearing on club badges, ties, notepaper, programmes, fla...

• Aston Villa | The Beautiful History

  With no written record and with human memory being too cloudy to be reliable, the precise date on which Aston Villa Football Club were founded can never be firmly established. But it can be linked to ...

• Colours | The Beautiful History

  This blog takes a closer look at the sartorial saga of home outfits of English and Welsh football clubs. It is not always clear why particular club colours where chosen in the first place. Often there...

• Leyton Orient | The Beautiful History

  There are conflicting stories about the origins of the club. In the latest and probably most accurate version the club’s roots can be traced back to 1891. From a group of cricketers at Homerton Colleg...

• New Brighton | The Beautiful History

        The once flourishing holiday resort of New Brighton with its excellent beaches, now a housing dormitory for Liverpool, was a town day trippers would flock to just before the turn of the twentiet...