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Celtic’s first shirt with Tennent’s across the chest, after a decade of Carling, arrived in a summer of change: Neil Lennon had just been confirmed as full-time manager, and Nike cut hoops with a tonal geometric pattern hidden in the green, a folded collar and black trim. On the back, Marc-Antoine Fortuné, the French Guiana striker signed from Nancy in 2009, wearing the number 10 he kept until leaving for West Brom in 2011.

It was the season the title slipped away by a single point, 92 to Rangers’ 93, in a run-in where Hooper and Stokes scored by the dozen and Fortuné slowly lost his place. What remained was the Scottish Cup, 3-0 against Motherwell at Hampden on 21 May 2011, the last final played in this shirt, plus the European bruises against Braga and Utrecht. Here at Hoopster, this is the shirt of a point that hurt and a trophy that healed it.