Football and fashion a match made in heaven

I used to buy a lot of my clobber from former Cork City players Joe Gamble and Neale Fenn when they had a nice little shop called Indigo on Leeside’s Washington Street.

This was way back when one could afford nice clobber and League of Ireland players had money to open shops. Remember that? Ultimately Gamble moved to Hartlepool, where I’d watch for his name beneath Jeff Stelling’s panel of Soccer Saturday pundits on the ticker while former Spurs starlet Fenn migrated north to Dublin. I went back to dressing like a sports journalist.

It’s not unlike the relationship between football and fashion: a little uneasy.