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      Welcome to the current holding page for the Irelandshirts.com website displaying a personal collection of match worn Republic of Ireland shirts. The old website has now sadly gone, but is being replaced with this new and updated version. The new site is currently undergoing this major move and revamp, but eventually here I intend to show a gallery of all the shirts that I have, a shirt history for the Irish national team and profiles of many of Ireland's greatest players. So all the old shirts previously seen on Irelandshirts.com and any new additions I have recently acquired will be added behind the scenes, over the coming weeks, and the new site will be launching very soon.
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 beenOpel 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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