2011/12 · Away

White adidas away shirt with green hoops, a dark green wrap collar, the Conseil Général de la Loire and Winamax Poker on the chest and the A.S. Saint-Étienne signature embroidered in gold on the nape. On the back, the hoops carry on in white on white, ghost mode.

And 2011/12 was the year Galtier's Verts were reborn: without Payet or Matuidi, with Ruffier in goal and a Gabonese kid called Aubameyang exploding with 16 league goals, 7th place with 57 points left the Europa League agonisingly close and set up the 2013 League Cup, the first trophy in 32 years.

Here at Hoopster, this replica lives next to its player issue sister: the same design in two bodies, a measure of how much these Saint-Étienne hoops weigh in the archive.