The Spain shirt is one of the more confident national designs precisely because it does nothing clever. Red body, yellow detail, done. It is instantly identifiable and it has not needed to change to stay identifiable.

For a buyer, a strong single-colour body is good news for printing. A name set on the back of a red Spain shirt is legible from further away than on almost any patterned design on this site.

Spain won three consecutive major tournaments between 2008 and 2012. Most national teams have one golden generation that people remember from a photograph; Spain's is recent enough that a large number of people simply own the shirt from it.

That changes what sells on this shelf. A Spain shirt is often bought to match a memory the buyer has personally, rather than a reputation they inherited.

On most national shirts the numbers people print belong to strikers. Spain is the exception: the shirts people ask for are the midfield numbers, because that is where the era people remember was actually won.

If you are printing a name on a Spain shirt and you are unsure, the midfield numbers are the ones that read as knowledge.

Two honest routes. Buy the current shirt if it is going to be worn — it is the one that fits the way modern shirts fit and it is the one in stock. Buy an era design if it is going to be kept, because the memory attached to it is the point.

Spanish national cuts sit between the English and Italian club cuts: roomier than Italian, slightly more shaped than English. Your usual size is normally right.