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      April 2011: Site Update After several months of inactivity I am delighted to add six new shirts to the website - some of them are real crackers too! There are quite a few more in the pipeline also which I hope to have uploaded within the next few weeks so keep checking back for more updates! What many people who follow football do not realise is that quite often the shirts that they see the players wearing are considerably different to those available for fans to buy in sports shops. These differences vary from team to team and strip to strip. This is why shirts available to supporters are called 'replica' shirts - because whilst they are very similar, they are normally different to the actual shirts that players wear. This makes them highly collectable and - in some cases - quite valuable.
Republic of Ireland shirts in recent years have had one major difference between replica shirts and 'match worn' shirts: the sponsor's logo! For well over a decade now there has been Opel or Eircom written across all replica shirts. Many fans have complained because it is highly unusual to see an International team do this. There are other differences as well - but these are a lot more subtle and vary from strip to strip. I have been collecting Republic of Ireland match worn players football shirts for a number of years now and, in October 2002, decided to create a website. All of the shirts listed on this website are either match worn or player-issued: there are no replica shirts anywhere on this site. |
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