Late last year we were delighted to get planning permission for the exciting new sculpture commissioned by Cambridge City Council, marking the place at which the rules of football as we know them today were first played: Parker’s Piece, Cambridge.

So here are the final designs for you to have a look at. Etched with the 11 Cambridge Rules in many different languages, the stone will be cut into nine pieces, four of which remain as a permanent marker on Parker’s Piece. The other five pieces are to be sent as tokens of exchange to five countries across the globe, the location determined by a story which echoes how football spread and how it has grown to encompass race, nation, class and gender.

It’ll be installed in Spring 2018, and Alan and Neville are currently in Portugal watching the stone being extracted. Find out more about their trip soon on this website.