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[awardinary]

I’m not normally one to post anything in the sports forum, but a thread idea came to life this evening for some reason.

In your lifetime, what football shirts have you owned and had printed with, either your own, or a player’s name on?

I don’t own one presently, but in my lifetime I can claim to have owned 4 different club shirts. I think my first was for my local team, Bristol City, and it was not with a printed name on the back. Some years later in secondary school I bought an away shirt (white) for Manchester United, and again it wasn’t with a printed name (I think it was the 1998 season). I know before leaving secondary school I owned an England shirt too, but I can’t remember what year or if it was home or away, but I think it was an away shirt, but I know some years after leaving secondary school, late 2000’s, I got another England shirt, full home kit, and it was printed with “10 Rooney” on the back. Around the same time I bought a home shirt for Manchester United (around the 2008/09 season), I thought that had Rooney printed on it too but I could be getting mixed up, in hindsight I wish it had said Giggs on there instead. I’ve not bought any official football shirts myself since, but I was given one as a gift from my brother once, it was the home kit of Barcelona, around 2010 season, and Messi’s name was printed on the shirt!

None of these shirts belong to me anymore so I don’t have images to share, but I’ll see if I can dig up old club images of the kits to compare to.

What about you? What football shirts (or if you want to share rugby shirts instead) have you owned over the years?

This post has been edited by awardinary: Feb 18 2020, 12:40 AM