5472 x 3648 px | 46,3 x 30,9 cm | 18,2 x 12,2 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
25 septembre 2023
Lieu:
Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK
Informations supplémentaires:
. Birmingham 1966 World Cup souvenir commemorating the FIFA World Cup in England, UK. Photographed on 25 September 2023. The recorded location is Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK. The circular printed design incorporates an aerial city image and bold THE WORLD CUP 1966 BIRMINGHAM lettering, providing a period piece of football memorabilia from the tournament won by England. Birmingham was one of the host cities used during the competition. Surviving items such as this evoke the visual identity and local experience of the tournament and can illustrate stories about host cities, football nostalgia, collecting, England's World Cup victory and the enduring cultural significance of 1966 in English football. For the story of fan culture, it is useful to note that sporting grounds, club colours and event memorabilia become part of local identity as generations of supporters associate particular streets, gates and stands with matchday ritual; Stadium architecture and branding also change repeatedly as clubs modernise facilities. The historical setting for branding is that material culture includes the ordinary products people bought, used, collected or displayed; Small manufactured objects can reveal national identity, advertising, technology and popular taste in ways that formal records do not. For present-day fan culture, 2026 is significant because sporting imagery has relevance beyond results, illustrating club identity, fan culture, major-event economics, venue investment and the role of sport in local regeneration. In the 2026 discussion of branding, online resale, nostalgia and interest in vintage design have made many ordinary twentieth-century objects active collecting categories rather than disposable goods. Closely connected keywords include football club, sporting heritage, sports venue, professional sport, football history, major event, sports tourism, supporter culture, sports memorabilia, collectable, consumer object, and vintage object.
