Nothing like an Irish welcome – twice
For more on the kit-happenings of Ireland’s qualifying campaign for the 1994 World Cup, see this fine article At club level, you’ll occasionally hear of hitches with kits, usually sorted… Read more »
Tag: Republic of Ireland
Midweek Mashup – Republic of Ireland, 2004
We have seen in previous articles how games against France in Paris led to interesting all-green kits for the Republic of Ireland, with a complete adidas kit borrowed in 1973… Read more »
Fantasy Kit Friday – Ireland orange third kit, 1993
Joey Smith, curator of the excellent Pyro On The Pitch and the author of the just-as-good Cold War Classics series on this site, had a vision in his reverie: @museumofjerseys… Read more »
Great one-offs – Republic of Ireland, 1987
The Republic of Ireland’s international friendly against Israel on November 10, 1987 wasn’t shown on television. That evening, national broadcaster RTÉ 1 broadcast A Growing Obsession, the first in a… Read more »
Fantasy Kit Friday – England Umbro, 2014
We do keep a list of all of the requests people put in for FKF, but occasionally we mislay the details of who actually made a particular one and we… Read more »
1990 World Cup – all of the kits worn
You’ll notice we have the word ‘worn’ in the title – change kits which didn’t get game-time aren’t included. That’s preferable to including some and then missing others we mightn’t… Read more »
1990 World Cup kit-tracker – knockout stage
The early stages – Group A, Group B, Group C, Group D, Group E, Group F Second round Cameroon 2 Colombia 1 (aet) A game remembered for Roger Milla’s goal… Read more »
1990 World Cup kit-tracker – Group F
Previous parts – Group A, Group B, Group C, Group D, Group E Republic of Ireland 1 England 1 Five of the six games played in this group finished in… Read more »
Cold War Classic no. 7 – Bulgaria v Republic of Ireland, 1977
Joey Smith of Pyro on The Pitch is back with another part of this great series – see here for the previous editions. At the end of our last CWC,… Read more »
Ireland v Brazil, 1987 – another adidas/Umbro mashup
You might have thought that last week’s story about Cameroon wearing Umbro shirts with adidas shorts and socks was a unique one, but that isn’t the case. Thirty-one years ago… Read more »