When the sun disappears: National Football Museum

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In Manchester we have had some wonderful weather this week, it genuinely couldn’t have been any nicer, but we can’t rely on it to stick around.  With that in mind, families need to be keeping an eye on things to do when the sun goes away, that is why we visited the National Football Museum.

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00:00With the summer weather having visited and soon to leave, I decided that it was high

00:04time that I spend a bit of time looking around Manchester, trying to find places that families

00:08can go when the weather maybe isn't as good as it's been this week.

00:12As soon as you walk into the museum, you're met by some silverware, so immediately it's

00:15my kind of place.

00:16We're not allowed to touch the trophies anymore because people used to drop them.

00:19I'm looking at you Manchester City.

00:21There's also George Best's mini, a jacket from Manuel Pellegrini and the exhibition

00:25that brought us here today.

00:26This brand behind me is far and away the best in terms of football shirts.

00:30I mean, I support one of the teams that they looked after.

00:33I won't reveal which, you'll never get that out of me.

00:35And here at the National Football Museum, they've got a little gallery with some of

00:39their best ever kits.

00:40You've got some of the classics, like this Leicester City 1985-86 kit, a lovely little

00:46blue number.

00:47And then you jump right up to 2020 to this brilliant Queen's Park kit.

00:54They add some of the actual kits that they've done quite recently, as well as some of the

00:58original artist's drawings.

01:00So on the floor that I'm on currently, you've got things like this, meaningful shirts from

01:04football's history.

01:05So here we've got UEFA Champions League earn it kits, which were worn by Leeds players

01:10against Liverpool just after the Super League was announced.

01:12A Black Lives Matter jersey as well.

01:15The first floor is a gallery where they've got a bunch of random memorabilia, including

01:18stuff like Pringles cans from Euro 2000, Vuvuzelas from South Africa 2010.

01:24And then I went up to go to the activities floor.

01:27So this is just one of the many activities you can do, it's three quid for three penalties

01:30and you take them up against this big wall, it gives you a score and there's a leaderboard

01:34apparently.

01:35So I'm going to have to try pretty hard, I think.

01:41So after getting beaten by a bunch of kids at a penalty shootout and realising that maybe

01:44football wasn't for me anymore, I went up to the top floor where you've got these really

01:48cool sort of avant-garde art exhibitions to do with football and the city.

01:52I made a little note there that I hung up, as you do, but I really can't recommend the

01:56National Football Museum enough.

01:58Give it a go and follow Manchester Will for more.

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