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Socceroos 2026 World Cup Squad Prediction
Socceroos 2026 World Cup Squad Prediction
In January 2023, we tweeted that Australia would reach the 2026 World Cup Final. We named the XI. We committed. Three years, two Achilles tendons, and three defections later —... Read more...
Football Clichés
Football Clichés
From "Park The Bus" to "A Cold Night in Stoke," football runs on clichés — and we wouldn't have it any other way. Strip Tees' Cliché FC collection turns the... Read more...
Football's Uncomfortable Relationship With Mainstream Australia
Football's Uncomfortable Relationship With Mainstream Australia
Football is the world's game — so why did Australia spend a century treating it like an uninvited guest? From the legitimising power of England's cricket tours to the Anglo... Read more...
World Cup Logos Ranked
World Cup Logos Ranked
Every four years, a nation gets to tell the world who it is — not in words, but in a logo. We've gone through all 22 FIFA Men's World Cup... Read more...
Viva La Revolución: Why Ange-Ball Changed Everything
Viva La Revolución: Why Ange-Ball Changed Everything
We started Strip Tees in 2018 because we were football fans who couldn't find shirts that reflected how we actually felt about the game. Ange Postecoglou is the reason we... Read more...
Why Jackson Irvine Is My Kind of Footballer
Why Jackson Irvine Is My Kind of Footballer
Jackson Irvine turned up to sign for Celtic in a Nick Cave t-shirt. That was it for me. A Nick Hornby-style love letter to the Socceroos captain, St. Pauli's heartbeat,... Read more...
The night Australia finally broke the curse: remembering the Socceroos’ historic win over Uruguay in 2005
The night Australia finally broke the curse: remembering the Socceroos’ historic win over Uruguay in 2005
On a warm night in Sydney in 2005, the Socceroos finally broke a 32-year curse and changed Australian football forever. From the trauma of Montevideo to Mark Schwarzer’s impossible saves... Read more...
Mark Viduka’s four-goal masterclass at Elland Road turns 25
Mark Viduka’s four-goal masterclass at Elland Road turns 25
Mark Viduka's Four Goals Against Liverpool: The Day Elland Road Held Its Breath | Strip Tees Twenty-five years ago today, Mark Viduka scored four goals against Liverpool at Elland Road.... Read more...
The Socceroos World Cup 2026 Squad: Young, Hungry, and Ready to Shock the World
The Socceroos World Cup 2026 Squad: Young, Hungry, and Ready to Shock the World
A new era of the Socceroos is dawning — younger, faster, and built to survive the furnace of a North American summer. With Popovic at the helm, this predicted 26-man... Read more...
My Life in Football: How the Beautiful Game Found Me
My Life in Football: How the Beautiful Game Found Me
A lifetime of missed signs, wrong turns, and happy accidents — how I finally realised football wasn’t something I found. It was something that had been under my nose all... Read more...
China v Australia 1923 — when football broke through the White Australia policy
China v Australia 1923 — when football broke through the White Australia policy
China v Australia 1923: When Football Broke Through the White Australia Policy In 1923, Australia had a law designed to keep Chinese people out. That summer, a Chinese football team... Read more...
Mark Viduka, good feet for a big man
Mark Viduka, good feet for a big man
Mark Viduka was a walking contradiction. Built like a wrecking ball, moved like a dancer. One of the best strikers in the world, and almost entirely unbothered by the fact.... Read more...