Our Story

Our story · Est. 2021

It started in an old ATM booth.

Before there was a shop, there was football. Lorenzo and Neil grew up playing the game, and it took them further than they ever imagined, to trials and football camps in London, Spain and Germany. They came home without a pro contract, but with something that would matter far more later: friendships with people who lived and breathed football shirts.

In 2021 we took over a tiny space in Parkhurst. It used to house an ATM. When the machine was pulled out, most people saw an empty wall. We saw the chance to build the shop we always wished existed.

Every fan in South Africa knows the feeling. You remember the shirt from that final, that season, that player. But finding the real thing without getting scammed felt impossible. Lorenzo had spent years asking the same question: where do you find it, from someone you can trust?

So he tested it. Around 30 shirts from his own collection, years of hoarding, went on the rail. Letting them go wasn't easy. Watching the whole drop sell out told us everything.

Local collectors came forward to sell, others trusted us to consign, and word spread fast. Within months, hundreds of shirts a month were finding new homes.

Then those old football friendships came full circle. Years after the trials and camps, we reconnected with the people we'd met in Europe and started sourcing overseas: tracksuits from Germany, full collections from Spain, and bales of classics from one of the UK's biggest vintage shirt specialists.

Every shirt carries someone's memory. We're just here to pass it on.

Today that little ATM space is home to Lorenzo and Neil. Nearly 10,000 shirts later, the promise hasn't changed since day one: real shirts, honest condition, no scams.

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