Finding gifts for a sports fan over Christmas can be tricky. You can’t wrap up membership of a site like bet365 Sport, for example and finding tickets to some sporting events can be like trying to knit with spider webs. Frustrating and usually pointless.
But fear not! We’ve scoured the world wide web for some of the more unusual, strange and occasionally baffling Christmas presents you could find for a sports fan.
Admittedly, how thrilled they would be to receive some of these as gifts for a sports fan on Christmas Day morning remains to be seen!
However, if you are in need of some gifts for a sports fan at the last minute, then why not consider some of these, erm, ‘beautiful’ items?
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Nothing says, “I couldn’t think of anything to get you, so I panicked and bought this last minute” as a gift for a sports fan, than a trusty-old key ring!
Now you could spend just a few pounds on a key ring, but why do that when Aston Martin, the car-maker and F1 team, are offering a silver key ring which you can have delivered to your home for just £268 and a few pence?
Part practical key accessory, part jewellery, nothing says “I have money to burn” more than a key ring to keep over £100,000 worth of car keys together. All for under £300 too!
But it’s not just Aston Martin who offer expensive key rings, Ferrari are also in on this game too! It's clear there is rivalry in the expensive keyring gifts for a sports fan market!
You can pick up your own prancing horse Key Chain and Charm for just £210, and that includes VAT too!
It’s such good value that you could also pick up a Ferrari grained leather luggage tag for just another £270!
But if spending just a couple of hundred quid on a key ring is a bit too common for you when consider gifts for a sports fan!, fear not, because on Ebay you can purchase a second-hand Lamborghini key ring from 1966-1973 for the starting price of £2,500.
Cole Palmer Face Pillow from Snugzy
Cole Palmer is a fantastic footballer, rightly deserving of the many accolades and acclaim he has received over the past 18-months. And now you can own a face pillow of the Chelsea and England forward direct from Snugzy for just £25!
This is a present that works on two levels. An ideal gift for a sports fan that loves Chelsea, or something that you can use to frighten children from at least 30-feet away.
Best of all, if you aren’t a Chelsea fan, then there are plenty of other footballers available including some major Premier League stars such as Rodri, Ruben Dias, Jack Grealish, Kevin De Bruyne., James Maddison, Son Hyeong-min, Cristian Romero, Nelson Semedo, Matheus Cunha, Jarrod Bowen, Marc Cucurella and a smattering of Norwich City players too.
You can even get someone elses face plastered over a football kit if you want to personalise the pillow to your own specifications! Plus there’s other sports options available including fishing, F1, Basketball, American Football, Rugby, Cycling, Bodybuilding and many more. Plenty of choice for gifts for a sports fan!
Retro Crystal Palace FC 1991 Dog Bandana
I can list on one hand the number of times in my life I have required a bandana. I am certain that my dog has required one even less so. Even so, that doesn’t stop me wanting one of these fantastic pet bandanas available for a wide range of football teams, using retro kits and current shirts as inspiration.
There are a huge number of kits from English and Scottish club teams and international sides from various eras to pick from and many of the designs are immediately memorable. Remember that famous Aston Villa and Southampton Hummell kit? Well, you can get Fido one of those if you so wish!
That’s not all that Retrosportsfactory.com has available either! Whether its coasters, luggage covers, beach towels, golf towels or even kitchen aprons, you can find a host of different items, searchable by item or team on the site. Many ideal gifts for a sports fan!
Personalisable items are also available and you can even create your own design using the on-site tools!
Southampton Johnstone’s Paint Trophy Win 2010 in a Mondrian Print
From the Goalhanger.com, you can purchase something that I think is very quirky and unusual, which actually resembles art. Design Richard Horsted has combined sport, with mathematics and art to create these abstract pieces which actually show how Southampton won the 2010 Johnstone’s Paint trophy. There’s a wide range of abstract pieces available for a number of different tournaments in the style of Piet Mondrian.
However, there are other abstract offers for a wide range of sporting events covering individual goals, matches, seasons and similar, all represented in a unique and artistic way. And from around £20 a piece (unframed), they are very reasonably priced too. These are perfect art-inspired gifts for a sports fan!
Football Cliches Book by Adam Hurrell
Head to Amazon now and you can pick up this fantastically funny book about football cliches. Dissected and analysed by The Athletic editor Adam Hurrell, you can find out why, at the end of the day, shots can be blasted, thundered, crashed home, spooned, drilled or fired at goal.
You can also get to grips with mime-based cliches, such as when a player makes a poorly timed tackle, they mime the shape of the ball to the referee or why if a player wallops the ball into touch for a throw-in, they will automatically claim with inherent vigour that the throw-in should be in favour of their team.
An ideal stocking filler to sit alongside other cost-effective gifts for a sports fan!
Sunderland Textured Tri-Terrytops
Quite possibly, my favourite of all the Christmas gifts for a sports fan is the unerringly wonderful Sunderland football club-themed Textured Tri-Terrytops. Now, if you don’t know what one of those is, then you are in for a pun-derful treat!
For just £15, you will receive a red and white terry-cloth triceratops, who for the uninitiated, is a dinosaur that had three horns on its head. Nothing says you love your club more than an unrealistically coloured fuzzy dinosaur.
It is so bad, it is perfect as the gift for a sports fan that has everything as barely anybody has their own club-coloured dragon-shaped dinosaur, do they?
So from the great to the good, to the very bad, these gifts for a sports fan should help you resolve any lingering issues you had finding that present for the sports nut in your family!
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