Plenty of clubs wear red. Very few wear red with white sleeves, and the ones that do are usually being compared to this one. That is the difference between a colour and an identity: remove the white sleeve and the shirt stops being right in a way that removing a trim on another club's shirt would not.

It also makes the home shirt almost impossible to get wrong as a purchase. It will be recognised instantly, anywhere, by anyone.

There is a run of Arsenal away designs that people ask for by year rather than by club — the yellow and blue one, the dark red one, the ones with an unusual collar. They are the most collectible part of this shelf, and they are the reason some people own six Arsenal shirts and only one of them is red.

If the recipient already has the home shirt, this is unambiguously where to go next.

Fit is standard English — your usual size, roomy enough to layer, and the smaller of two sizes if you want it to sit like clothing.

On printing: a red body takes a white or gold name set well and a dark one poorly. If you are printing, check the listing photos for what colour the print is on that specific shirt, because it varies by season and it is the difference between legible and not.