Light blue is rarer in football than it sounds, and this particular shade is distinctive enough to be identified on its own. It is also a good colour for a shirt that gets worn: lighter than most club colours and easier to wear as ordinary clothing than a saturated red or a black-and-white stripe.

The trade-off is the usual one for a light colour — it shows marks. Sky blue sits between white and a mid tone, so a season of wearing will show at the collar and cuffs.

Older clubs carry number traditions that go back decades. A shelf that grew recently carries the numbers of the players who are there now, which makes printing simpler: there is less risk of choosing a number that means an era the recipient did not mean.

If you are buying for someone else and know they follow the club, print the current first-choice name. If you do not know, leave the back blank — a sky blue shirt with nothing on it is finished as it is.

The home shirt is the one to buy first — the sky blue is the point. The away and third designs on this shelf tend to be darker, and they are the ones people buy as a second shirt because they wear better in winter.

Fit is standard English: roomy, your usual size correct, and the larger of two sizes if it is going over anything.