Most player shirts are bought because the player is playing. This one is bought because someone remembers watching. That is a completely different purchase and it is worth saying out loud, because it means the design details matter more than the fit.

Which also means the version matters. Ask which shirt they picture — the club one in stripes, or the yellow national one — because those are two different memories and people feel strongly about which.

Shirts from this era were cut closer to the body than modern ones — narrower shoulder, less room through the chest. If you order your current size you will get something that fits differently from what you expect.

Go up one size, and go up two if it is going over anything. This is not a defect in the shirt, it is what shirts were like then, and buying for that is the whole trick.

This is the best football gift for someone in their thirties or forties who stopped following the game closely and still remembers this player. It lands in a way a current-season shirt does not.

On care: older prints are more fragile than new ones. Inside out, cold, no tumble dryer, and never iron on the print. If it is going on a wall rather than a body, that is a completely legitimate way to own it.