Game Day

Scarf up, floodlights on, ten minutes to kick off.

Your pet wears a plain knitted supporter's scarf in two solid colours with simple horizontal bands. Behind, an evening stadium seen from the stands: floodlights above, a blur of crowd thrown far enough out of focus that it reads as atmosphere and nothing more. The light is the giveaway, cool from the floodlights above mixed with something warmer from one side, which is exactly how a ground looks at night and almost impossible to fake with a plain background.

An honest note about the colours. The scarf is an invented colourway and carries no crest, no badge and no lettering, and we do not reproduce any real club, national team, kit or city mark. That is a legal line rather than a stylistic preference: printing a real badge on something we sell is straightforward infringement, and no gift is worth that. What we can do is match your colours. Tell us the two you want in the order comments and the scarf will be built from them.

For most people that is the whole point anyway. The recognisable thing in the picture should be the animal, not the merchandise.

It is one of the strongest gifts we make for someone who is difficult to buy for.