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A Christmas gift guide to football club merchandise – in pictures

Footie Christmas gifts: Chelsea Toaster
Check out this toaster! Photograph: Public Domain
Footie Christmas gifts: Sheffield United gnome
Insert your own more-mobile-than-Steve-Simonsen joke here Photograph: Sheffield United website
Footie Christmas gifts: Olympique Nimes bubbles
'I'm forever blowing official Olympique Nimes bubbles …' Photograph: www.nimes-olympique.com
Footie Christmas gifts: Djurgardens fishing hook
By fish hook or by crook, Djurgardens will sell some official merchandise Photograph: Djurgårdens IF website
Footie Christmas gifts: FC Sochaux perfume
Eau de Sochaux. Smell like a Montbéliard fan … Photograph: www.planetefcsm.com
Footie Christmas gifts: Wolfsburg license plate frame
Wolfsburg licence plate frame. Check out those cats eyes! Photograph: Wolfsburg FC website
Footie Christmas gifts: The Volkswagen Arena Skyline wall stencil
Why put a Jackson Pollock on your wall when you can have the the Volkswagen Arena Skyline wall stencil? Photograph: Wolfsburg FC website
: Footie Christmas giftsVfl Bochum tape dispenser
You have to admire Bochum's brass neck: not only are they selling a tape dispenser, they've called it "Beverley Hills" Photograph: VFL Bochum website
Footie Christmas gifts: AEK Athens Etch-a-sketch
Those who unwrap this Etch-a-sketch might be saying FFS rather than AEK Photograph: AEK Athens website
Footie Christmas gifts: Prints of Phil Townsend, Director of Communications at Manchester United
The one thing in history that was outsold by the Sinclair C5. Possibly Photograph: Public Domain
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