SHORTLISTED 2026

Sports Writing Award | Shortlisted

More Than A Shirt

by Joey D'Urso

How Football Shirts Explain Global Politics, Money and Power

Compelling and eye-opening, More Than A Shirt will change the way you think about the beautiful game’s most universal symbol. Joey D’Urso has travelled across the globe, combining on-the-ground reporting with unparalleled analysis to collate a list of the twenty-two football shirts that best explain the modern world.

 Joey D’Urso is a freelance journalist and author. He has previously worked for The Times and Sunday Times, The Athletic, owned by the New York Times, and BBC News. He was nominated for Football Journalist of the Year in 2022 by the FSA and has been twice nominated in the sports journalism category at the BJA.

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