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Umbro's return to Tallaght came in 2020 with worked hoops: a tonal camouflage pattern runs inside the white stripes, discreet from afar and hypnotic up close. This example is the sponsorless replica, released before the JD Sports deal reached the kits, and carries Jack Byrne's 29 on the back.

And what a season fitted into this shirt: a league shortened to 18 rounds by the pandemic, won without a single defeat, the Hoops' 18th title and their first since 2011, with Ibrahimović's Milan visiting an empty Tallaght along the way. For Byrne, the maestro the green shirt returned to the Irish national team, it was the farewell of his first spell, before APOEL and the homecoming.

Here at Hoopster, Byrne's 29 reunites with the 2019 cup shirt that already lived here: the same maestro, now with the title that was missing.