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Football fans with their shirts and flags at Glastonbury 2024

Football fans have turned up with their shirts and flags at Glastonbury 2024 for another weekend that will long live in their memory.

This had been a growing trend for many years now at music festivals across the country, an increasingly common sight with many people watching on from home trying to spot fans of their own team in the crowd watching big name artists.

In previous years at Glastonbury, we’ve seen Tyrone Mings swapped his cardigan for an Ipswich Town fan’s replica shirt, Aitch’s performance on the Pyramid Stage seemingly unveiling Manchester United’s new home kit.

In 2019, we had Grime artist Dave calling upon one fan called Alex, invited onto stage and performed his track ‘Thiago Silva,’ while wearing a PSG shirt with the player’s name on the back.

In 2022, Sam Fender, a massive Newcastle supporter, had a Newcastle United flag on display for his set.

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This is our fourth year of covering footie fans at Glastonbury, with the help of @GlastoFooty, a Twitter account who celebrates the best of footy shirts at the festival.

As you saw, many fans and flags have been on show, with teams from non league to Premier League well represented.

Around 200,000 music lovers are expected to turn up for the festival this weekend, a large amount of the turned up in a kit showing off their colours and even making some new friends and WhatsApp groups chat no doubt in what is sure to be an experience never to forget.

In this article we’ll show you all the photos sent through and popping off across various social media platforms… just keep scrolling to see them all in between quotes from other festivalgoers about the popularity of kits at music events.

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Glastonbury Festival this year clashes with the Euros, and the organisers have already said in a statement that they won’t be showing England’s clash on Sunday.

Fans fans could be left unaware of the score with phone signal notoriously bad at Worthy Farm.

In a statement released, organisers said prior to Scotland’s elimination: “In previous years, we have endeavoured to show notable matches on big screens where possible, particularly on days before the main stages have opened.

“However, with England and Scotland’s Last 16 matches potentially clashing with headline sets at this year’s Festival, the decision has been made that – as in 2014 and 2016 – should England or Scotland qualify from their groups, their Last 16 matches will not be shown at the Festival.

“It won’t be known until the week of the Festival whether or not England or Scotland will actually play a match during the Festival.

“But, as we have already been asked about our plans, we wanted to let everyone know well in advance that the decision has been made not to screen the potential matches.

“We would like to wish both Gareth Southgate and Steve Clarke’s sides all the best in Germany. And we hope we’ll all be able to watch them play Quarter Final matches in the days after this year’s Festival.”

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Rudi Obasi-Adams, a regular festivalgoer and Man Utd supporter from Preston, wore a 1989 Ajax shirt to Latitude.

He said to BBC News in 2023: “Football shirts are definitely back as a fashion statement. I think there’s been an increase [at festivals] – especially England shirts combined with bucket hats.

“It has become more of a fashion statement rather than people just representing their clubs, and I think you see quite a wide range of people.

“It’s not just geezers, you see lots of girls wearing them nowadays and older people.

“I got this as a lockdown present – we did a secret Santa and we all got each other retro shirts.

“Somebody else got the 2018 Nigeria shirt and somebody else got one of the 90s Bayern Munich shirt – I think I got the best of the bunch.”

Sam Ralphs, a volunteer worker, said the range of vintage and retro shirts went down a hit at an Oxfam shop, which was also at Latitude last year.

“We’ve had the shirts for the past three or four festivals and they fly out – people get really excited about particular ones, especially the older ones,” he said.

“We had a few really good ones at Glastonbury – a Wet Wet Wet from Clydebank, which is a bit of a unicorn – it’s a third kit and we sold that for £220, which was really cool.

“I know a lot about football shirts but not a lot about football.

“It’s really interesting to see which ones people get excited about, but it’s usually the more obscure ones or lower league teams.

“People find one from five or 10 years ago, which means something to them, their dad, mother, uncle, or whoever and gets them excited – which is cool to see.”

“Football shirts, for the majority of their existence, were seen as the preserve of the tasteless or the nerd,” Neal Heard, author of The Football Shirts Book, said.

“In front of our eyes, mostly over the last two years, this perception has been totally turned on its head.

“Right now, there is no cooler object of streetwear and, for me, this is just the beginning. Football shirts will follow the pathway of the once humble training shoe and their spread and influence will grow exponentially in all realms from the football industry itself to streetwear and fashion.

“Football shirts lend themselves to ownership and belonging, both in terms of being into something ‘on trend’ but also in terms of allegiance to your team or even with sponsors.

“They are brand vehicles of a few dimensions and this pushed up their ability to speak to people.

“What better way to show off this love than at a music festival.”

Credit – Rose-Ellen Woodmass

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