Kitbag is one of the best websites for football and rugby clothing, equipment and accessories. It's clear and quick to get round, has a really wide range of products and offers fast delivery. They keep well up to date with the latest kit from your favourite team and offer a full range of shoes and balls from all the top brands. As they ship Worldwide and offer European shirts there's a quick currency converter ready and waiting for you to use and you can choose from standard, Royal Mail Special and express delivery.
With its excellent delivery service, offering standard, express and Saturday delivery plus international delivery and its diverse range of products for the golfer this would be an excellent website for gifts. Check through their golf accessories where you'll find the range from Callaway and Nike, golf gadgets including swing trainers and ball retrievers and DVDs and books. There's also a gift finder which offers you a selection depending on how much you want to spend.
Norman Thelwell's wonderfully funny cartoons first appeared in Punch magazine over forty years ago. His portrayals of country life, sporting persuits and in particular horses and riders are known and loved the World over. This is not a sophisticated website, with sophisticated pictures but if you know someone, whatever age, who rides or loves horses (and has a sense of humour, of course) you'll doubtless find a gift for them here, from cards, diaries, giftwrap and pictures to 'get off my foot!' socks, printed t-shirts, The Riding Academy money box and cross stitch kits.
This is a really good website offering gifts for fishermen that don't get in the way of the rods, reels and flies that they almost certainly won't want you to give them. You'll find sterling silver fish cufflinks, Barbour scarves and hip flasks, humerous mugs, limited edition prints, note cards, barware, Richard Wheatley fly boxes and silk ties. They use first class post for all deliveries and ship Worldwide.
From a full range of rods and reels by manufacturers such as Snowbee, Fulling Mill, Loop and Fladen to waders, hats, caps and gloves, everything for the keen fisherman is available here. If you're looking for a gift go past the fly tying kits unless you're sure they'll be welcome and concentrate more on fly boxes, tackle bags and rod carriers or fly tying tools, lamps and magnifiers. There's free delivery here in the UK on orders over £40 and an express delivery option.
This is another excellent tennis website retailing raquets by Prince, Wilson, Babolat and Yonex, amongst others, ball baskets and ball lobbers by Lobster, Tennis Tower and Shotmaker and everything else for the tennis player. They also have a Unique Gifts section, where you'll find things like tennis bookends, coin trays, bottle openers and letter racks and they offer Gift Certificates as well. They deliver worldwide and offer a UK express service.
You'll find all the usual hiking and trekking gear here, by brands such as Berghaus, Bridgedale, Columbia, Craghopper, Lowe Alpine and North Face plus an excellent range of gifts including LED lights, diving torches, waterproof MP3 players, Leatherman tools, binoculars, altimeters, clocks and Oregon Scientific weatherstations. There's free next day delivery on orders over £50 (UK) and they'll ship Worldwide.
Needless to say this is a five star hotel, championship (five star) golf course with five star products in its shop. So it's expensive. But if you want something really special, whether or not he/she's played there then this is the place to visit (online, I mean). I wouldn't personally, go for the Gleagles embroidered clothing, however, but take a quick look at the accessories and you may find something that'll be a hit.
CartoonStock is a searchable database of over 60,000 quality gag cartoons, political cartoons, cartoon pictures and illustrations and sporting cartoons by over 290 of the world's best cartoonists. Once you've chosen your area, eg sporting, you just have to put the type of sport (football for example) into their search box and click 'search'. You'll then have loads of cartoons to choose from which you can add to your shopping basket and once you've done that you can choose whether you want your selected cartoon as a print, on a mug, t-shirt or mousemat.
Hattie Smart designs golf gloves, but not just any old golf gloves, these are designer golf gloves, made from the finest leather and available in a range of colours including pistachio, violet, fuchsia and cranberry for women and kangaroo, bayleaf and vanilla for men. All the gloves are very reasonably priced and arrive beautifully packaged so they'd be the perfect gift for your golf playing friend or relative. You need to call or email to place your order.
There's a huge range of posters on this website claiming to be the UK's largest online retailer of posters, art prints and associated goods, plus a range of printed t-shirts and poster and print hangers. For the sporting enthusiast you'll find an excellent selection covering skateboarding, surfing, football, motorsports and cricket. Everything is reasonably priced but you may have to wait for delivery.
If you know London well you're bound to have passed the elegant Swaine Adeney Brigg store at 54 St James's Street. Well known as purveyors of the highest quality gentlemen's accessories such as umbrellas with unique handles, wallets, attache and document cases in a variety of styles and leathers plus wonderful (and wonderfully priced) leather luggage. They have a very good gift selection and many of their items can be personalised.
Musto, Henri Lloyd, and Gill are the three main brands on offer here for the sailor, including the clothing, accessories, footwear and luggage ranges. You'll also find deck shoes and chandlery, Kahuna watches, Leatherman knives, Silva compasses and charts and marine books, plus the clever Sea Shore 6 speed Marine Folding Bike which stows away on board or in the boot of your car. They'll ship to the UK or to Europe.
The one stop shop for cricket novelties and gifts with best sellers such as a cricket-ball clock, cricket letter rack and a framed limited edition picture commemorating The Birth of the Ashes in 1882 showing the hand written batting orders, scorecard and original scorers sheet. There are simply loads of ideas here from the very cheap and cheerful to the not so cheap (although most things are well priced). So take a look around here for stocking fillers and attractive gifts for all ages of cricketer.
This is the place for girly-girls who love their cars to come and have a browse. Not everyone want to have exotic seat covers or a pink passion polka dot steering wheel cover but if you think that sounds like you then this is without any doubt your place. It's also a very good store for finding gifts for new drivers, with The Girl's Guide to Losing Your L-Plates and diamante wheel nut caps just a couple of the ideas. hmm.................. There's everything from the truly useful to the totally daft here and you'll either love it or skip right on.
As beautifully presented and expensive as you would expect, at the Fortnum and Mason online store you can order their gorgeously packaged teas, coffees, chocolates, hampers and deli products such as caviar and cheese, dip into their extensive wine celler and visit their ‘At Home’ department which is packed full of lovely gift ideas and home décor items. Then pay a visit to Fashion and Beauty to find their own brand toiletries plus other exclusive ranges and accessories for both men and women. If you live in and around London and you’re buying gifts, you can request delivery by horse drawn carriage!