Design errors

Sports

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Wrong dress In an Australian football game, the payers of one team always wear black shorts, the players on the other team white shorts. (AUSTRALIA - 1977)


Fighting teammates These two players wear the same outfit and should belong to the same team. So there is no reason why they are fighting for the ball. (FINLAND - 1952)


Soccer Comparing to the keeper, the size of the goal is out of proportion. (CAMEROON - 1964)


Big players In volleyball, the net is 2m40 above the ground, these players are real giants ! (ROMANIA - 1963)


Shifted colour Due to the shifted black colour, the goalkeeper seems to have switched his shirt with a field player (UNITED KINGDOM - 1966)


Wrong cap This stamp honours Roberto CLEMENTE, the great Pittsburg baseball player. The Pittsburg Pirates however never wear white baseball caps (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - 1984)


Potential conflict Both Russia and Brazil claimed the victory on the World Basketball competition in 1959. The Russian team were unbeaten, but refused to play against Taiwan in the final. Russia was disqualified and replaced by Brazil, who finally won. (BRAZIL - 1959)


Against the rules Three stamps with, on each of them, a fault against the soccer rules. (UNITED KINGDOM - 1966)


Wrong equipment Soccer, without shoes and adapted clothes, at the Olympic Games ? (BHUTAN - 1964)


Wrong uniform When Pelé scored his 1000th goal, he was not playing for the Brazilian team, but for his home team Santos. (BRAZIL - 1969)


Missing team All the players belong to the same team, and do not have individual shirt numbers. (CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - 1964)


Dangerous Catcher in an official cricket game without face protection (GUYANA - 1968)


Wrong result The result of the final match in the worldcup 1930 between URUGUAY and ARGENTINA was 4-2, not 4-1 (NICARAGUA - )


Wrong net or wrong ball This is a volleyball net, but the ball and the position of the hands refer to a basketball game. (TANZANIA - 1988)


Strange playground. Tennis and soccer on the same field, on the top an an hill, without guard. How much time will they spend searching the balls ? (SAN MARINO - )


Missing hole In basketball, the net has a hole to let the ball go through. (ITALY - 1997)


Missing ball Missing ball ? In any case not the right ball to play volleyball (NICARAGUA - 1988)


Wrong ball Rather a ball to play basket- than volleyball. (VIET NAM - 1990)


Wrong dress According to the way the players are dressed, three different teams seem to play against each other. (FRANCE - 1956)


Missing stage This tour started and ended in Prague. The last stage from Pilsen back to Prague was forgotten. (GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC - 1957)


Missing stripes The white shoulder stripes are missing on the shirt of the French players. (IVORY COAST - 1986)


Missing and wrong colours The white shoulder stripes are missing on the shirt of the French players, anbd the Brasilians had blue pants. (IVORY COAST - 1986)


Fantom game In 1986 in Mexico Argentina never played against the Soviet Union. (IVORY COAST - 1986)


Strange ball Wrong representation of a soccer ball. (RWANDA - 1966)


Not present The Danish player Frank Arnesen was suspended and did not partecipate at the game against Spain in 1986 in Mexico. (NEVIS - 1986)


Wrong team The Swedish team featured on the stamp is not the team which won a Bronce Medal during the World Cup in 1994. (SAINT VINCENT AND GRENADINES - 1994)


Wrong fixing To avoid that the ball bounces back into the field, the nets are not fixed directly to the supports (TOGO - 1996)


Red line There is not a red line on the shorts of the French soccer players (NICARAGUA - 1986)


Wrong direction The stripes on the shirts of Argentinas soccer team are vertical, not horizontal. (RWANDA - 1974)


No relation A chess championship has nothing to do with an Olympiade, the orgenisation of the Olympic Games. (GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC - 1960)


Not present Greece, Norway and Armenia did not partecipate to the World Cup 2006. (ARMENIA - 2006)


Strange game One of the field players is wearing white gloves on both hands, and the catcher is partecipating to the game with his protection mask. (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - 1992)


Abused use Olympic logo for the 3rd African games. (ALGERIA - 1978)


Second ball ? Drop the boll near the goal can happen, but why is the other player looking as if he is expecting another ball ? (GUINEA BISSAU - 1988)


Wrong outfit In soccer, the goalkeeper and the fieldplayers have always a different outfit. (WESTERN SAHARA - 1998)


Too close The pedals are too close to the frame, the lever will be insufficient to develop enough power. (ARGENTINA - 1963)


Missing protection In hockey, the goalkeeper always wears a protection mask. (TANZANIA KENYA UGANDA - 1972)


Too wide The goal is too wide, compared with the length of the goalkeeper. (CHAD - 1964)


Too small In soccer, the rectangle around the goal is 5,5 m width, thus three times the size of a player. (BELGIUM - 1998)


Wrong shirt France did not partecipate to the World soccer championship in 1994. (BULGARIA - 1994)


No advertising At the European soccer championships, the teams wear country-shirts without advertising. (NICARAGUA - 1988)


Fault A red card, or at least a yellow one, will be the decision of every referee for such a dangerous move. (CONGO REPUBLIC - 1990)


Missing count As the following year the 16th games were organised, this could not have been the 7th games. (BULGARIA - 1977)


Too low This vollleyball net is too low (ITALY - 1971)


Huge leg With such a huge leg, it should be easy to win teh match. (HUNGARY - 1985)


Too narrow The goal is much too narrow. (GUINEA - 1997)


Too low The volleyball net is much too low. (ITALY - 1977)


Distraction Why is the red player looking at the camera, and not at the ball ? (CONGO REPUBLIC - 1990)


Wrong shape Soccerball with one 6-sided tile, while the other ones are 5-sided. (CHILE - 1987)


Not present Basketballplayers with shirts of the national team of Turkey, but they did not partecipate to this Olympic games. (TURKEY - 1960)


Wrong lines Wrong representation of the lines on a soccer field. (VIET NAM - 1985)


Not clever ! The goalkeeper is catching the ball behind the goal line ! (VIET NAM - 1986)


With and without Pete Rose and other famous baseball players were depicted on this sheet. On request of the major league baseball, which had banned Rose from the sport for betting on baseball games, a new sheet was issued without this player. (GRENADA - 1988)


Wrong tour This stamp shows neither the tour of 1903, neither the tour of 1953 (FRANCE - 1953)


Wrong outfit All payers have the same white outfit. Impossible to make a difference between a teammate, an opponent or the goalkeeper. (MEXICO - 1977)


Wrong clothing Wrong representation of the olympic rings - female volleyball players do not wear skirts (YUGOSLAVIA - 1952)


Bicycle errors Two errors : missing chains, and on one bicycle the plateau was featured is at the left side instead of right (FRANCE - 2013)


Missing glove Goalkeeper with only one glove (VIET NAM - 1980)


Not olympic American football is not an Olympic competition (MEXICO - 1968)


Where are the others? Only three players on the field (NICARAGUA - 1948)


Wrong country This cyclist is not French, but Dutch (NEVIS - 1992)


2 or 3 teams? These basketball players have three different outfits (SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC - 1957)


Mixed up The names of the players were mixed up between the two stamps (look at the blue French shirt of Platini) (NICARAGUA - 1993)


Missing goal Nice catch, but where is the goal? (KAMPUCHEA - 1985)


3 teams? The players have 3 different outfits (SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC - 1975)