QuoteDidn't something similar happen with Dundalk a few seasons ago? If my memory is not letting me down....it was a home match and blood got on a jersey. They had to grab a jersey from the club shop and use tape to put a number on it.
Quite funny, but imagine the ridicule if a club here had to borrow a supporters replica shirt before a match!
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Didn't something similar happen with Dundalk a few seasons ago? If my memory is not letting me down....it was a home match and blood got on a jersey. They had to grab a jersey from the club shop and use tape to put a number on it.
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Didnt it happen a few years ago when Albania came to play in Ireland for a world cup qualifier?
When Albania came to play ireland in the 90s they brought nothing! Adidas stepped in and supplied a kit. Cobh turned up to play Monaghan but bizarrely left their kit in drogheda and wore monaghans away kit! There was the pats v Sligo debacle that delayed the live TV game by 25 minutes. Waterford v bohs a few years ago saw bohs borrow a kit from a junior club due to both their kits clashing with Waterford (go figure!) and if course athlone have worn their third and away kits at home due to clashing with the referee! I could go on but you get the picture!
Someone had to wear a Harps away kit last season in Finn Park, I think it was Waterford but I'm not too sure. Often seen goalkeepers have to change kit in the past number of seasons too.
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Waterford then pulled a nasty fast one by trying to substitute a second junior club's kit, in an attempt to force Bohs to wear green and white hoops.Originally Posted by Titan
Don't remember the Pat's vs. Sligo incident.
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Twas Anthony Buttimer I think; not much more needs saying really!
I seem to recall that Albania team (in 1992) being arrested for misinterpreting "Duty Free" as "Free" and nicking half of Dublin Airport
Limerick wore Harps' away jerseys in Donegal in their farcical year; they took the lead and the player wheeled away kissing the Harps crest. So the story goes.
Same year Limerick had two subs on the bench, and had to use both. Second was a sub keeper. He went in nets and the first choice keeper went up front.
I remember Waterford starting a home game with ten players because their eleventh was stuck in traffic coming down from Dublin. This was in the Steve Brown era; late 90s. Three minutes in, the manager decides this is silly and subs on Marc Reid for nobody.
Lots of mad stuff has happened in the LoI. All the more fun for it too.
Haven't seen this happen yet though; another story from Scotland. Not the only time that's happened either.
Well in fairness, clean forgetting to appoint a referee for a game is probably worse (think it was UCD vs. Waterford in 2005).
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It was the first game of the 2008 season I think. We only had a red and white home strip and all white away strip at the time. Buttimer wouldn't allow either and Pat's refused to wear their away (grey) top so we had to don it. We were beaten 3-1 I think, Jamie McKenzie scored first.
We then produced an all green kit later that year. Same design as the home one from the previous year.
Yep, Buttimer decided our white strip clashed with Pats' red one. Ryan Guy scored a couple as far as I remember.
Was that on TV?
Yeah it was on tv. Was CPO at UCD at the time and was at a meeting with the Fai a few weeks before and brought this very scenario (can't remember how it came up) up but was assured all kits were thoroughly inspected and there was no chance of both a home and away kit clashing with another teams home kit. Oh how I laughed!!
Saw it happen at an U-19 match a season or two ago. The supporter even called some offsides, as the lino he replaced came back out pitchside and watched!
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Limerick wore Harps' away jerseys in Donegal in their farcical year;
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Which of the farcical years was that? Saw Bohs play Limerick in 1981 during the fried chicken wars, 10 shades of blue and no crest, and no names in the match programme.
.Bohs won 8-0, a result that was overturned when the FAI readmitted the other Limerick team to the league for no particular reason afai remember.
Had forgotten about that one! Thanks for the reminder. Yep, UCD v Waterford in 2005 sounds about right. It was a Monday night game; I wouldn't have been able to go ordinarily, but I made the last half-hour cos of that **** up.
What was their excuse?
i dont remember us having a grey top
Because you refused to wear it.
What always makes me laugh is that arsenal play spurs in the EPL in their traditional kits,yet Dundalk and pats can never do same.Also refs getting silly about keeper jerseys clashing with refs kit where again in premiership I have seen numerous times keepers in black and ref in same.
It gets even sillier at junior level where refs in summer league in Dundalk won't let lads wear tape that is a different colour to the sock,yet it was pointed out to me during the World Cup,a Brazil player breaking this "important" rule.
In summary I think Irish refs are just a pack of muppets
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What a fantastic misspelling. This sort of rubbish never happened during the winter season.
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