Packie Bonner spent his entire senior career at Celtic and kept goal for the Republic of Ireland. The stock behind this page contains nothing of his, despite one listing appearing to match.
The single listing the site finds is a 2024-25 QPR Match Issue FA Cup shirt for a player named Dixon-Bonner. The surname matching that powers these pages catches it, but it has no connection to the Celtic goalkeeper.
Bonner’s Celtic career belongs to an era when printed goalkeeper shirts were not a retail product at all, and goalkeeper kits in general were made in the smallest runs of any shirt a club produced. Even for keepers of his standing, the surviving stock is usually blank shirts rather than named ones.
The item is a third shirt, #19, listed at around £120. Match Issue describes a shirt prepared for a named player for a specific fixture — here an FA Cup tie — and numbered accordingly, whether or not it was worn. It is not a replica and not match-worn, and it is priced between the two.
Celtic shirts from the 1980s and early 1990s do circulate, but printed ones from that period are almost unheard of, and goalkeeper versions rarer still. Search by club and season and expect to buy the shirt unprinted. If a named Bonner shirt is offered anywhere, ask how the lettering was applied before you pay for it.
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