A chara, – Breandán Goss in his explanation for why Germany’s away shirt is green (December 19th) has, alas, fallen for one of the most enduring urban myths about Irish sport, up there with the late, great Socrates playing for UCD!
Germany wear green and white as their second kit because that is the colour of the German Assosciation, the DFB, which is assumed to derive from the colours of the pitch. Switzerland were the new West Germany’s first opposition in 1950, with Ireland playing them later in 1951. – Is mise,