Our story

I grew up on non-league football. The shouts carrying off the pitch. Fried onions from the burger van behind the goal. Home and away supporters stood together with no fence between them, the way it has always been at this level.

University took me out of my hometown. For a few years I followed the Premier League club in the city I had moved to. Better football, no argument. But in a crowd of fifty thousand you do not feel as important. At a non-league ground you are one of a few. The club can feel it when you turn up.

So I found non-league again in my new hometown. A new club, the same size of crowd, the same kind of afternoon. Plenty of people there from a similar route — some stepping away from the elite game, some just looking for a second club to get behind.

Up and down the country that passion is growing. Clubs with supporters who care about them out of all proportion to the level they play at — with almost nothing to show it with.

That is what Turnstile is for: clothing that represents non-league supporters, giving them a choice. Something that shows your pride, what your club actually means, without a manufacturer's logo slapped across the chest or being printed on the cheapest material going. Turnstile is about quality materials, with printing that goes into the fabric rather than sitting on top of it, proper embroidery where a design earns it, every piece made to order in the UK. Something to wear proudly any day of the week, anywhere — as well as on the terraces on a Saturday.