ALL CLUB SHIRTS

Most of what sits in this collection comes out of three leagues. English clubs football shirts covers Arsenal, Manchester United and the rest of the old First Division and Premier League names, Spanish clubs football shirts is mostly Real Madrid and Barcelona with Valencia and Atletico Madrid filling in behind them, and Italian clubs football shirts runs from Juventus and AC Milan through to smaller sides like Torino and Brescia that rarely turn up anywhere else.

Dutch clubs football shirts is built almost entirely on Ajax, Feyenoord and PSV, kits made for a domestic league that punched well above its size for two decades. German clubs football shirts is thinner but sharper: Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund jerseys from the nineties and 2000s, the kind bought for the badge rather than the name on the back.

French clubs football shirts holds PSG, Marseille, Lyon and Lille, several with the number of a player who later became a much bigger name than the club he wore it for. Anything outside these six countries, from Celtic to River Plate to Galatasaray, is grouped under rest of the clubs rather than split into leagues too small to carry a page of their own.

A shirt with a recognisable player's name on the back tends to move faster than a blank one, and this collection has plenty: Del Piero at Juventus, Henry at Arsenal, Ronaldinho at Barcelona. The names with real weight, players who defined a club rather than passed through it, are pulled together separately in legends.

Every listing carries its own condition rating and its own photos, because no two originals from the same season are in the same state. Sizes are given as pit to pit and top to bottom, measured flat, since a label reading L from 1996 rarely matches an L cut today. Almost everything here is one of one: a single physical shirt in a single size, so what you see in the photos is the only piece there is.