NEAL HEARD explains why he needed to write a book about his favourite football jerseys – and why Newport County’s 1979-82 adidas kit is still his number one…

THE idea of producing a book on football shirts has been bubbling away in my head for at least 20 years, and that’s a long gestation period!
The game-changing scenario that pushed me to finally produce it was a combination of the growth of social media, and cheaper print costs.
This meant I could now produce the exact book I had long-since dreamt of, without being beholden to an unsympathetic publisher. It...