Ent. Landorthe Estancarbon Savarthes 2006/07 Home Shirt

Nike dressed the Entente in wide hoops with Krys, the French optician chain, and Paru Vendu, the classifieds newspaper, splitting the chest, and Dietsmann closing below, a name that sounds strange for a village club but has roots in the region: the oil and gas multinational bought Setram, a firm from southwest France, in 1989, and has kept engineering offices in the country ever since. On the back, the green 7 under Groupama, the mutual insurer also sponsoring the shirt.

It is the 2006/07 shirt of a club that only exists because four villages decided, together, to keep playing.

Here at Hoopster, enter rural Comminges with sponsors from far away: an oil multinational paying for hoops worn by a four village union.