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The shirt of the return to square one. After sixteen years in the Football League, Championship included, the 2019 relegation sent the Glovers back to the non-league football they had departed in 2003, and this TAG shirt dressed that first season of reunion, cut short by the pandemic and settled with leagues decided at a desk. The design brings the hoops to life with two shades of green in diagonal cuts, as if every stripe had its light and shadow, with The Glovers tab sewn at the hem signing off the identity. The sponsors are a portrait of footballing Somerset: builders Jones on the chest, a long-standing partner, and on the back Thatchers, the region's cider since 1904 and the club's faithful companion, probably the tastiest sponsor in the whole collection. From the Championship to the National League in six years, hoops intact: in Yeovil they relegate divisions, not identity.

Here at Hoopster this shirt closes a sixteen year circle: the Glovers back in the non-league they had once left, in a season the pandemic settled at a desk. Returning to the beginning is a form of history too.