The Yahoo Sport Christmas Gift Guide: 7 great sports gifts to buy this year
Christmas is nigh and like Wayne Rooney’s hair, your ideas for presents are thin on the ground. So why not let Yahoo Sport help with some sports-themed gift ideas that we’ve scouted from far and wide especially for you.
So if want more sport in your child’s life, want to ‘drive in the slipstream of champions’, offer support to a male friend’s biological unmentionables, want a putting great idea for a golf mate, are keen to keep your cycling buddy safe at night, or if you’d like to introduce someone to the footballer who was chased along the touchline by the future Queen of England, read on.
1) Sportpax www.sportpax.co.uk
Most school bags are as dull as Alan Shearer being banterous with Gary Linekar. Sportpax’s sports-themed backpacks for kids are the perfect school or sports bag, with room for books, their lunchbox, boots and gym kit.
As for the cost, they’re brilliantly priced: the football and rugby backpacks are £27.99 (including FREE P&P), and the tennis backpacks are two pound more at £29.99 (FREE P&P).
All of Sportpax’s great-looking bags have adjustable straps, handy inner pockets and are easy to wipe clean. We think they’re an excellent gift for sporty children. www.sportpax.co.uk
2) Jockey® Performance Boxer Trunk www.jockey.co.uk/collections/jockey-performance
If you’re going to buy underwear for someone, Jockey offer a selection of underwear ideal for sports. Say goodbye to your tighty-whities, Yahoo Sport readers: Jockey’s latest streamlined Performance underwear offers comfort, support, and elasticity suited to men who lead active lives. Good to know. A polyester-and-elastane fabric blend gives these moisture-wicking, lightweight, cooling underwear just the right amount of compression and support for the man on the move. So unless your recipient is perpetually stationary and dislikes pants, these make sense.
www.jockey.co.uk/collections/jockey-performance
3) Zaggora www.zaggora.com
Zaggora is a British-based company specialising in women’s activewear and health foods with over a million happy customers in 143 countries. And they only started 6 years ago! Want to know what to buy an active woman this Christmas? Here’s the answer: Zaggora have a range of ‘hot wear’, a range of fitness wear made out of ThermoFit performance fabrics which raises your temperature to help you work out smarter by sweating more and burning more calories. Check them out. Actually, while you’re at it, they do a festively-apt spiced apple protein smoothie that sounds a) delicious and b) good for you.
4) The Fhoss Illuminated Signalling Backpack – www.fhoss.com
The Fhoss Illuminated Signalling Backpack is a fantastic gift for Yahoo Sport readers who love cycling. It uses advanced technology via a blue tooth remote control that allows cyclists to activate illuminated directional LEDs to signal forward, left and right movements, along with a slow/stop signal. It’s easily charged with an attached USB cable and has a charge time of 4 hours. With a light time of 100 hours, the remote control can be mounted on handlebars or the wrist, allowing riders to be seen at all times. Cyclists who ride after dark and especially commuters should love this new and innovative product.
5) Raybon Putters www.raybonputters.com
If you’re buying for a golfer or someone looking to get into golf, Isle of Man’s Raybon Putters is almost certainly what you need. They believe that the process of buying a golf club needs to change, and therefore they work together with golfers to create a putter that is unique and perfect for them. Every putter is crafted with skill, attention to detail and pride. No more off the shelf, one size fits all; it stands to reason that your game will improve as a result
The company was founded by precision engineer Ian Raybon and a PGA professional golfer Gary Hunter, so they know better than most what they’re doing. Check them out.
6) Lotus Driving Academy – www.lotusdrivingacademy.com
This is superb for those with a need for speed! The Lotus Driving Academy offers a range of experiences suitable for anyone looking for a more involving and informative track driving session, they say. Based at the Hethel test track, the Lotus Driving Academy enables you to improve and hone your skills in the latest new Lotus Exige and Elise models. Yahoo Sport readers can tread the same tarmac as Nigel Mansell, Ayrton Senna, Emerson Fittipaldi and Kimi Raikonnen and experience 0-60mph in just 4.2 seconds!
Prices start at £119 for the ‘Scare Yourself Sensible’ session. Sensible has never sounded so exciting.
7) Flying Over an Olive Grove: The Remarkable Story of Fred Spiksley – www.spiksley.com/book
Born at a unique moment in the history of the beautiful game, Fred Spiksley was amongst a new wave of teenagers who, in 1885, could aspire to be a professional footballer and dodge the inevitability of industrial labour. Football has had many entertainers – Best, Messi, Gazza, Ronaldo, Zidane – but none of them have escaped from a German POW camp, been chased along the touchline by the future Queen of England, or shared a stage with Charlie Chaplin. Fred Spiksley did all of those things. Fred was football’s first entertainer. This is a book which took 20 years’ of research to put together – and it tells. Like Fred’s life, it’s pretty remarkable. A great gift for anyone who loves the history of English football.
Merry Christmas!
