Personalised football gifts for dad.
What to buy for a dad, grandad or father in law who already owns the shirt, the scarf and the mug. Budgets, sizes, timings and the details worth checking before you order.
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The gifts that land are the ones tied to a day he remembers. His first game, the promotion season, the derby he took you to. Anything that only shows a badge could have come from any club shop, so it gets far less shelf life than something that names the people who were there.
What to spend
Under £20 covers a digital print he can put on any wall once it is framed at home. £25 to £40 covers a framed A4 or an unframed A3. £40 and above covers a framed A3, which is the size that actually reads across a living room. Spending more on a bigger size usually beats spending more on extra small items.
Get the details right before you order
You will need his club, the shirt names and numbers for each person in the picture, and a rough idea of who should be standing where. Nicknames work better than full names on shirts. If you are not sure about a spelling, ask someone in the family rather than guessing, because the name is the first thing he will look at.
Leaving it late
A digital file arrives within 48 hours, so it still works the night before a birthday. Framed prints need posting, so order those with several days to spare, especially close to Christmas and Father's Day.
Framed or digital
Digital is cheapest and instant, and he can print it at whatever size he likes. Framed is the better gift to hand over, because there is something to unwrap and it goes straight on the wall. Plenty of people buy the digital first and upgrade to a framed copy once they have seen it.
Grandads and fathers in law
Include the grandchildren in the print. It turns a football gift into a family one, which is usually the version that ends up in the hallway rather than the spare room.
Why a custom print works for dads
It puts him, and whoever he goes with, in the stand of the ground he knows, with the right names on the backs of the shirts. Nothing else in the club shop does that, and it does not date the way a season specific shirt does.
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