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Irish Senior Team Shirt Names

  • 22-05-2005 10:45pm
    #1
    Creamy Goodness
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,584 ✭✭✭✭


    just a real curious question as my first post,


    anytime I watch international football when Ireland play they never have the names on the shirts eg. duff no.9 etc.

    is there a valid reason for this or is it just the FAI being cheap skates?

    I mean like isn't the name and the date of the game sewn into every shirt so like that they can't be re used again anyways?


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  • #2
    Gileadi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,126 ✭✭✭Gileadi


    uefa dont make you have the numbers on it and its probly better that way,imagine some of those eastern european names,the letters would be going the full way around the jerseys


    ps duff has been number 11 more or less since they returned from the world cup,if you got any pics otherwise to prove me wrong bring it on


  • #3
    20 Times 20 Times
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,220 ✭✭✭20 Times 20 Times


    i think he was just using it as a example ya know name and number


  • #4
    Creamy Goodness
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,584 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    yeh sorry was just using an example.

    i wasn't saying that we should have the names on the shirts but just wondering was there a logical explanation for it.


  • #5
    MrJoeSoap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,117 ✭✭✭✭MrJoeSoap


    Gileadi wrote:
    imagine some of those eastern european names,the letters would be going the full way around the jerseys

    Never mind eastern europe!

    Wright-Phillips And now that Bradley is coming through they can stick an S. or a B. before that!

    And then there's Jan Vennegoor of Hessilink...


  • #6
    dcarroll
    Closed Accounts Posts: 460 ✭✭dcarroll


    MrJoeSoap wrote:
    Never mind eastern europe!

    Wright-Phillips And now that Bradley is coming through they can stick an S. or a B. before that!

    And then there's Jan Vennegoor of Hessilink...
    of means or in dutch too, so its translaterd to venegoor or hesselink


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  • #7
    MrJoeSoap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,117 ✭✭✭✭MrJoeSoap


    dcarroll wrote:
    of means or in dutch too, so its translaterd to venegoor or hesselink

    Still has to put it on his jersey!


  • #8
    Töpher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,483 ✭✭✭Töpher


    And he doesn't abbreviate any of it! :D


  • #9
    Pigman II
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭Pigman II


    You are only required to have names (and small numbers on the front) on jersies at the finals of major International tournaments. The first time I noticed this was at Euro92 in Sweden.

    For other games you don't need any such info but at the same time there's nothing stopping you putting it there. I'd imagine the FAI just couldn't be bothered.


  • #10
    Serbian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,170 ✭✭✭Serbian


    If you email and ask them, they will probably tell you why.

    info@fai.ie


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