Bob Marley's last ever outdoor concert inspires new soccer shirt

By Emmet Lyons, CNN

Updated 0832 GMT (1632 HKT) January 27, 2022

The Bob Marley shirt will be the Irish club's 2022 away jersey.

(CNN)What is the next move for a football team that has a designated poet in residence and the sport's very first climate officer? To design a shirt in honor of reggae legend Bob Marley, of course.

In the latest progressive scheme from Irish club Bohemians, a member-owned and not-for-profit team, the club have released a special away jersey to commemorate the Rastafarian icon's last ever outdoor concert, which took place in the club's stadium, Dalymount Park, on July 6, 1980. And 10% of all profits from the shirt will be used to buy sporting and musical equipment for people in Asylum Centres in partnership with the Movement of Asylum Seekers in IrelandThe concept came from the mind of the club's Chief Operating Officer Dan Lambert, who in part wanted to pay tribute to the club's history — a timeline that, as Dublin's oldest club, stretches all the way back to 1890. «We're always trying to use the natural assets of the club and one of the best assets we have is Dalymount and Dalymount's history,» Lambert told CNN Sport.Read More«We've played in the ground since 1901… Zidane and Pele and Van Basten and Ruud Guulit and George Best and Bobby Charlton, they all played there.»But it was the ground's storied history of music and in particular, the legendary Marley gig from 1980, that Lambert said was something that captured the imagination of the club's local community in Phibsboro on Dublin's northside. «We have lots of gigs at the ground and music history. Particularly in the '70s and '80s. We had Thin Lizzy and Meatloaf and Status Quo but nobody more famous than Marley.» «The Marley gig is legendary