FIR Italy - 2020/02/09 - Matteo's T-shirt A Day
Matteo wears his Italy top while supporting the underdogs in the Guinness 6 Nations.
Today Italy lost their game against France in the 6 Nations. While I was supporting the underdogs (Italy) I was also wearing my Italy Rugby shirt from circa 2003.
This was a cotton rugby shirt made by Robe di Kappa, with the Federazione Italiana Rugby (FIR) shield, the Robe di Kappa logo and the shirt sponsor Jaguar.
Here are the highlights of the game as well.
6 Nations Rugby - 2020/02/01 - Matteo's T-shirt A Day
The Guinness 6 Nations gets under way today, and MAtteo has a t-shirt for that…
The Six Nations Championship is an annual international rugby union competition between the teams of England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland, and Wales. Today’s t-shirt is one which celebrates the tournament and has the 6 Nations symbols across the front: a cock for France, a thistle for Scotland, a rose for England, the Prince of Wales Feathers for Wales, a three leaf clover shield for Ireland and a tri-colour shield for Italy. Needless to say these are not the official Rugby Federation logos, that would have involved an expensive licensing deal…
The Guinness 6 Nations 2020 kicked off today, so what better day to wear this t-shirt. I’ve now embedded the video highlights from the weekend’s action below.
Another 4 rounds to go. While not very pleasant for Italy supporters, there is a lot of entertainment to come.
Italia Online - 2020/01/12 - Matteo's T-shirt A Day
Today’s t-shirt hurls us back to the days of the very slow internet…
Big throwback to 1997/1998: the internet was something new in Italy and Italia On Line (IOL) was Italy’s version of AOL (unrelated to AOL in any way apart from “product inspiration”). IOL ran a TV ad campaign highlighting the usefulness of search. When at the SMAU consumer electronics and technology trade show in Milan I was given this t-shirt which highlighted the catchphrase of the ad campaign.
This was before the days of established search providers (Google was in its infancy and Bing didn’t exist). Altavista and Yahoo were my search engines of choice at the time, but IOL still covered the internet portal function for me.
Let’s face it, even if you did have an internet connection in 1998, it was so slow you would be bashing your face against a rock face and shouting “Open up you bastard!” anyway. Thank goodness for progression of internet speeds: my current home connection is 750 million times faster.
IOL later folded into Libero and was lost in the innards of the internet. It had a good run and gave us a good laugh with this ad campaign.
Needless to say, I don’t wear this t-shirt in public much. Even in Scotland people know that the southern european word for referee is a rude one…
Pineapple on Pizza - 2020/01/06 - Matteo's T-shirt A Day
Will pineapple on pizza be the casus belli for world war 3?
Pineapple on pizza. It is definitely a hot debate, often discussed on the internet. In my view it more likely to cause World War 3 than any other current global events.
OK @CensoredPixel let us settle this. Is pineapple acceptable on pizza? Please retweet for reach. #pizza #pineapple #Poll
— Matteo Doni 🇬🇧 (@Todoleo) July 19, 2018
This t-shirt was a gift from my friend and colleague Jen, who graciously gave it to me after winning our twitter poll on if pineapple on pizza is acceptable.
Bologna’s food decency police getting me off the streets….
Later that year I made the mistake of wearing the pineapple on pizza t-shirt while in Italy. Sadly this led to the local Bologna food decency police arresting me for inciting unacceptable food pairings.
Whatever your views on pineapple on pizza, you have to admit that this t-shirt is a pretty impressive item of clothing….