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A Nike teamwear template dressed the local way: the dolphin on the crest, the colourful Ville de Sète logo beside it, IT firm cyndi as a sticker on the chest and a giant panel on the back, electrician Laurentelec across the stomach and a 6 printed at the local Intersport, the shop's mark at the base of the number. National division football, where sponsorships are stitched on by hand and every shirt is unique.

It served in Sète's third straight season in the third tier, and the last one. With the club sunk in a governance crisis since the summer, the team dropped to National 2 and the president resigned at the season's end. A year later came judicial liquidation and rebirth as Sporting Club Sétois, today in the regional leagues.

Here at Hoopster it pairs with the 1988/89 match worn shirt, and fate decided that the archive's two Sète shirts would tell two falls. The club of France's first double deserves a third one that tells a rise.