Irish Senior Team Shirt Names

Creamy Goodness · 22-05-2005 11:45pm #1

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?

Gileadi · 23-05-2005 10:43am

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

20 Times 20 Times · 23-05-2005 1:18pm

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

Creamy Goodness · 23-05-2005 1:28pm

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.

MrJoeSoap · 23-05-2005 1:28pm

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...

dcarroll · 23-05-2005 2:21pm

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

MrJoeSoap · 23-05-2005 2:29pm

dcarroll wrote:

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

Still has to put it on his jersey!

Töpher · 23-05-2005 3:11pm

And he doesn't abbreviate any of it!

Pigman II · 24-05-2005 12:04am

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.

Serbian · 24-05-2005 2:12pm

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

info@fai.ie

Irish Senior Team Shirt Names

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