Sportswear firm apologises for Nazi gas gaffe

SPORTSWEAR manufacturer Umbro, which designs kits for the Ireland football team, yesterday apologised for mistakenly calling a pair of trainers the same name as a deadly gas used by the Nazis.

The company agreed to drop the name Zyklon after complaints from at least one Jewish group.

Umbro insisted its decision to call the casual training shoe Zyklon was “purely coincidental.”