The Weekly Buck

Written by Jon Clarke The weather keeps threatening to brighten up doesn’t it? Well we are in Spring already, the sun is still being shy, but here’s hoping that it starts to show up more often in the coming weeks. And you know what that means gents… time to get...

Written by Jon Clarke Fifty-two years. That’s how long it’s been since Sir Geoff Hurst put three past a very strong West German outfit - in front of 96,000 people at Wembley Stadium. Just the thought is enough to give any football fan goosebumps. In the five decades since then,...

Written by JON CLARKE If ever there was a household celebrity name that’s synonymous with style, its Mr. Beckham. The surname epitomises fashion. It’s a brand in itself. Whenever he steps out of the house, there will no doubt come a certain amount of pressure because of this image he’s...

Written by JON CLARKE Pressure to look good is higher than it’s ever been for men. With the superhero movie boom, the ‘ideals’ perpetuated by Instagram (not to mention the countless reality shows) men are being told how they should look on a daily basis. Buff, ripped, tanned and tattooed....

  Back in 2015, Jamie Carragher is reported saying that spitting is “vile” and “disgusting” after an incident between Jonny Evans and Papiss Cisse. How those words have come back to haunt him in recent days. As one of football’s greatest rivalries, there’s no match quite like Liverpool vs. Manchester...

Written by JON CLARKE As you enter your fifth decade on this good earth, it’s worth taking some time to reflect on your image. Granted, you’re not the fresh-faced, 21 year-old you once were. That cock-sure graduate who was willing to try all kinds of fleeting fashions (or fads) is...

Ninety years. Long time that isn’t it? Fats Domino, Andy Warhol and Che Guevara were all born in 1928. Significant. Iconic. And while they’re not claiming to be quite as significant and iconic as these people (though they definitely are), Goodwin Smith are celebrating the same birth year. Yes, believe...

Interview by JON CLARKE Back in 1986, Nick ‘Charles Tyrwhitt’ Wheeler started a mail order shirt company. It did just £12,000 per year in sales for the first four years. However, a potent cocktail of persistence and passion has since taken him to the very summit of shirtmaking, as the...