Shamrock Rovers 2019 Home Shirt

If Warrior caught Rovers mid crossing, New Balance said goodbye to them in the year of arrival. In 2019, in this shirt of hoops dissolved into pinstripes with golden details, Shamrock Rovers lifted the FAI Cup again 32 years on, a drought running since 1987, precisely the year the sale of Glenmalure Park cast the club into the wilderness. The final at the Aviva Stadium had everything epic about it: 1-1 with the all powerful Dundalk after extra time and a penalty shootout decision, with Tallaght descending on Dublin in numbers to watch the curse break. It was the breakout season of Jack Byrne, the midfielder who put a League of Ireland player back in the national team, and second place in the league announced what was coming: the four in a row of 2020 to 2023 was around the corner. This is the hinge shirt, the one that closed the old wound and opened the golden era. At Rovers, even a brand's farewell shirt arrives with a trophy attached.

Here at Hoopster this is the shirt that ended a curse: thirty two years without the Cup, broken on penalties at the Aviva with all of Tallaght in Dublin. Hoops know how to wait for their revenge.