2016 · Away

Northern Ireland away shirt released for Euro 2016, the tournament that ended a 30-year wait for a major finals and marked the team's first ever appearance at a European Championship. White with the green chest band and adidas three stripes on the shoulders, bearing the IFA's embroidered celtic cross crest, it accompanied a campaign nobody predicted: rated the weakest team in the tournament by UEFA ranking, Northern Ireland beat Ukraine, escaped a group containing world champions Germany and only fell in the last 16, against Wales, to an unfortunate own goal. The shirt of the summer when Will Grigg was on fire in the stands of France without playing a minute.

Here at Hoopster, it is the shirt of a summer nobody believed in: thirty years of waiting undone in France, with Will Grigg on fire in the stands.