Robin van Persie and his wife, Bouchra, were at Downing Street to meet British Prime Minister, David Cameron earlier this week. Robin is the ambassador of football youth charity 'Street League', which encourages education and football programmes for young people to develop skills they can later use in the working world.

It seems club programmes in the SPL might be about to endure a rather brutal re-invention.
The league, in its new found spirit of consultation, is canvassing opinion on the future of individual club programmes.
The endgame might see the disappearance of programmes as we know them and the advent of a league-wide SPL matchday magazine.

Recently I have been enjoying the discovery of the wonderful www.fulhamfootballprogrammes.co.uk an Illustrated History of Fulham Football Programmes and matches from the club's formation to the present day. Created by Fulham fan Phil Cowan, it really is a labour of love and features full scanned copies of Programmes from every era of Club's history.

It doesn't take much to bring out the obsessive in many men of any age, and this is something that advertisers and hawkers have been aware of for a long time and acting upon this sort of impulse with greater and greater sophistication in recent years. Football supporters, of course, can be amongst the worst for obsessive behaviour, and one of the more obvious manifestations of this comes in the form of football programmes.

Stone-Dri's story began in the 1940s when a family of four brothers from Salford began to produced coats and costumes from 95 Broughton Lane, Salford, under the name of ‘Stone-Dri – The Direct Rain Coat Company'.

They manufactured mainly with traditional shower proof fabrics such as, cotton gabardine, poplin, terylene and wool gabardine.

By our decree.

Aris took on financial behemoths Manchester City during the week in a Europa League match which ended nil-nil, arguably a small victory for the Greek side, even if they were playing in the Balkans. And though they didn't score on the pitch, they scored in the program with a none-too-subtle dig at Man City's trillionaires and the size of its squad by adding just a few more big names.

The English are known for their eccentricities. Stamp collecting is so passe for them. So is collecting football programmes. The English have this breed of people called anoraks who are absolute nutters. I remember on time going on a football special to Leicester (normal behaviour, nothing extreme there) and there was this nutter who was tape recording the sound of the train doors closing!