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Nike long sleeves for northern winters, with the TVM 1920 crest on the chest and a sponsor that could not be more local: Abraham, Der Schinkenspezialist, Germany's great name in ham, based precisely in Seevetal. On the sleeve, a circular seal repeats Kirschsport around a player's silhouette, the local sports shop's signature, and a green full back's 2 lives on the back.

It is the 2014/15 shirt of the II, the reserves playing district football on Hamburg's doorstep, in a Nike template identical to a thousand others that the hoops make unmistakable.

Here at Hoopster, it enters through the usual door: the football that never escapes the Sunday results is what fills half this archive.