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Green and white Kappa hoops, the Italian brand's logo repeated down the sleeves and a club crest with a drilling rig and the Iraqi flag, a reminder that this is the club of Najaf's Midland Oil company. On the back, NAFT ALWAST in capitals where a player's name would usually sit.

The season went down in history for the worst reasons: the 2019/20 Iraqi championship was annulled without a champion, first interrupted by the October protests and then finished off by the pandemic.

Here at Hoopster, it joins the oil shelf, next to Cabinda's Sonangol and the German village of Wietze: the shirt of a season that officially never happened.