If you purchase a pair BEFORE Midnight on Sunday 13 September 2020 you will be entered into a draw to win an exclusive hat!

We have ONE Rowell Bucket Hat (pictured) to giveaway. The hat is a sample that will now never be made, it’s a totally unique item.

The hat is in size XL.

1. Your entry to the draw is automatic on purchasing a pair of Byrne Socks
2. Every customer who buys a pair of Byrne Socks can win no matter where in the world they are
3. The hat cannot be returned once won unless the purchase of socks is returned in which case the prize reverts back to us
4. The winner will be drawn on the 14 September 2020 and notified by email and announced on social media
5. Our decision on the lucky recipient of the hat is final and will not be discussed

Best of luck!

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We had videos from Lee Stevens (@OG66Gizmo) and Adam Forster (@Adamf2384), both of which were superb but failed to bring them victory, both players were eliminated by public vote! Lee was one of the BIG favourites having stormed to victory in our Euro 2016 competition and his defeat was quite the shock. Adam was beaten buy American underdog J Scott Stan, who must now surely have moved from stalking horse to firm favourite on the basis of his early performance.

The winners moving into the Quarter Finals can be seen below, as can the stunning efforts of every participant.

QUARTER FINALS (Played 29 June 18)

QF 1: @stevemorgan49 v @BulldogChelsea
QF 2: @davidp0610 v @NYCFirm
QF 3: @Andy_Sargent v @jfstan1
QF 4: @Aaronsidewhite v NLgyles

So tune in on the 29 June 2018 for the next instalment, you get to choose the winners by public vote so have your say!

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The Round of 16 schedule (to be played on 08 June 2018) looks like this:
Match 1: @stevemorgan49 v @gmcpake
Match 2: @BulldogChelsea v @steve_westlake
Match 3: @davidp0610 v @daytona_dave
Match 4: @OG66Gizmo v @NYCFirm
Match 5: @marcfirth316 v @Andy_Sargent
Match 6: @jfstan1 v @adamf2384
Match 7: @N1ckTodd v @Aaronsidewhite
Math 8: @NLgyles v @chris1976wright

Our #WorldCupSC18 sock range is growing and available at https://sockcouncil.com/product-catego…/world-cup-sc-18/

Tune in on the 8 June over on Twitter (@SockCouncil) for the last 16 of Knock Out World Cup Socks Out!

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We’re running the tournament alongside the release of our hugely popular #WorldCupSC18 Sock Range, paying tribute to classic football kits and great memories of the World Cup.

The competition is the ultimate fancy footwork cup battle. The players drawn against one another have to come up with the best combo to progress to the next stage. From the Round of 16 onwards the best combos will be put to a public vote on twitter (we are @SockCouncil there), so you can decide who has the best effort!

There are prizes up for grabs for our 32 participants, so there should be real competition.

FIRST PRIZE £50 voucher for sockcouncil.com
RUNNER UP £20 voucher for sockcouncil.com
Best effort of every round (judged by us, excludes the final) FREE pair of socks

The dates of the competition are:

First Round: 18 May 18
Round fo 16: 8 Jun 18
QF: 29 Jun 18
SF: 9 Jul 18
3rd Place: 15 Jul 18
Final: 15 Jul 18

In 2016 our Euro competition was a HUGE hit, and we are hoping for some more stunning efforts like these!

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The socks comes in a pack of two, one anklet and one mid-calf length, they are perfect for riding your bike, or sticking on with a nice pair of trainers to go down the pub!

We have released three styles of the socks so far, the Sprint, King Of The Mountains and Maillot Jaune, and we are really proud of what we have put together, they look fantastic as you can see. Chapeau!

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We started the BSFC/Sock Council following a visit to Manchester in 2011, meeting Wrighty the co-founder, and Macca for a pint, and after a trip to Oi Polloi to buy socks. We’ve made friends there, held events there, and after this week’s attack we wanted to do something positive to try and help. So, we’ve been in touch with one of our suppliers, Corgi Hosiery, and decided to do some Manchester Bee socks.

All of the profits will be donated to the charitable efforts in aid of those affected by the attack. Corgi have been superb, they are putting the socks into production without delay, making a special effort, and they have also reduced the price they are charging as their contribution, credit to them for their support and kindness, good people. We hope this gesture is taken in the spirit it’s intended, we just want to do something tangible. We’ll keep you informed of developments and final designs, as well as a release date of course. 

Peace & love, Reuven x

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So what interesting things do I have to say about socks? I like socks, that’s for sure. However, I can’t really think of any sock related events that are worthy of recounting in cyberspace. I wonder if astronauts have specially designed cosmic socks to keep their varicose veins from exploding? Who invented the sock? Probably some Celtic tribe four thousand years ago maybe. Can vegans eat socks? Did you the word ‘sock’ is an anagram of ‘coks’? No my own sock story is pretty mundane. Where I live, in Runcorn on the Mersey estuary, there used to be a massive ICI chlorine plant. There’s still a massive chlorine plant but it’s now owned by eco-rapist, Jim Radcliffe and his INEOS chemicals conglomerate.

Runcorn was and still is to a degree an ‘ICI Town’ and prior to becoming a new town and welcoming 35,000 migrant scousers from across the Mersey with open arms in the 70s, most of the male population were employed either at ICI itself or industries linked to it; the salt works, the docks, the tugs and so on. My dad worked at Weston Point docks and Weston Salt Union had their yard at the same location, salt being used in vast amounts for the production of chlorine and transported via the Weaver canal from the salt mines in Northwich and Winsford.

This interlinked industrial connectivity also manifested itself in items of clothing and one such icon of my youth was the ‘ICI Sock.’ These socks were knitted from a wool mix with the same pinkish hue and taste of three week old corned beef hash. They were thick and warm and perfect for winter days spent playing three and in em for hours on end in the garages. ICI socks were handed down from father to son like medals from the Boer War, they were cherished items, adored and even worshipped.

The great God, Chlorine had furnished the people of the town with prosperity and lung disease and for this the god demanded sacrifice. We offered our first born sons and they gave us warm socks and cancer. I don’t even know how me dad had pairs of em – maybe he traded them for some knock off whiskey or a jar of precious unguents from the Orient, any way I’d swipe them from the airing cupboard whenever the outside (and sometimes the inside) temperature required. They may not have looked funky and fashionable but fuck they were warm.

Still, as I look around TK Maxx in search of affordable sock wear that isn’t either minor brand diffusion line bull crap or self-consciously Jon Snow ‘eccentric’ I’m glad Sock Council have filled the massive foot shaped void in my life. Now, hopefully they’ll drop all this football nonsense and get around to doing an ‘Industrial’ range, in pink ofcourse.

By Phil Thornton (author of Casuals)

The Swine Magazine archive is available here, something Phil wrote for 5 years! We highly recommend you check it out!

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We’ve come together to make some amazing head gear. Perfect for the end of winter and beginning of spring, in Norway or the UK.

The hats are 100 per cent Merino Wool, they have an absolutely amazing feel to them. They each have an embroidered BSFC x Branchmen logo and come with stickers celebrating our friendship with our Scandi mates. There are only 50 hats, we want to keep our work together exclusive and limited, what’s the point of seeing everyone wearing the same thing?

This is the first in a series of collabs we’re doing with our Norwegian friends, bringing you authentic Scandinavian concepts made in the UK. We hope you are as excited as we are!

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The socks are our tribute to the great strikers who have worn the Barcelona number 9 shirt, names such as Stoichkov, Larsson, Ronaldo, Ibrahimovic, Hans Krankl, some of the best forwards ever seen!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKKXsAG2Z8Q

The socks are made from wool and nylon in the UK and are available in two sizes, so they will fit most feet.

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If you’ve forgotten to buy something for that special someone then don’t sweat, we’ve got Gift Cards here.

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The Final of the competition will see @Original66Gizmo take on @BulldogChelsea, our very own England v Germany tie! It will be a cracking ‘game’, taking place on Sunday 10 July at around 6 pm over on twitter!

There will also be a third placed play off!

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