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The Football Museum Press Articles

The Daily Telegraph

16th February 2001

"It's as though you’d died and woken up in football heaven."

"The museum, housed under two sides of Preston North End’s Deepdale ground, should indeed become a place of pilgrimage for anyone with even the remotest interest in football. Even those with no interest at all will find the social history aspects fascinating. The place is truly captivating."

The Independent

16th February 2001

"It would be a mistake, however, to assume that the museum is a mere accumalation of memorabilia rescued from dusty attics by the great granchildren of long departed players and supporters - There are also multi-dimesional panels which trace the history of football, incorporating television monitors showing, for example, the earliest recorded footage of a game.”

"Reassuringly, there has been no attempt to to sanitise the games history. Not only does the museum provide sumptuously designed pictoral evidence of the social context which football has developed - from the Great War aned Jarrow Crusades to punk rock and the Rubik cube - but it draws attention to the disasters of Hillsborough and Bradford, hooliganism and racism that some might prefer to see swept under the carpet."

Sunday Express

11th February 2001

"If you think museums are musty dusty old places, forget it. This one is sheer delight, for fans of every age and persuasion - and even for those poor deluded souls who reckon they don't like football."