Wouldn't mind betting that some of the contributors on here are Parents or even Grandparents just itching for an excuse to but them for their relations.
Or even just themselves.
Whoever said we were a bunch of stamp sticker collectors.
I bought this for @les_says along with 10 packs of stickers. ( I actually bought it with packs of cards to start with but were told they were another game and were 'wrong' so had to go out to get the right ones )
Well, there was absolute concentration whilst he opened each packet, read out each name/ground/team, (louder if it was a silvery one). He then concentrated on sticking them all down one by one. It took ages., and then he flicked through each page admiring his work and stating which teams he had no players for.
I bought this for @les_says along with 10 packs of stickers. ( I actually bought it with packs of cards to start with but were told they were another game and were 'wrong' so had to go out to get the right ones )
Well, there was absolute concentration whilst he opened each packet, read out each name/ground/team, (louder if it was a silvery one). He then concentrated on sticking them all down one by one. It took ages., and then he flicked through each page admiring his work and stating which teams he had no players for.
Sounds as if that little boy of yours is having as much fun collecting these stickers as we did when were kids ;-)
I bought this for @les_says along with 10 packs of stickers. ( I actually bought it with packs of cards to start with but were told they were another game and were 'wrong' so had to go out to get the right ones )
Well, there was absolute concentration whilst he opened each packet, read out each name/ground/team, (louder if it was a silvery one). He then concentrated on sticking them all down one by one. It took ages., and then he flicked through each page admiring his work and stating which teams he had no players for.
Ha ha - well you have got to do it properly or not bother.
I bought this for @les_says along with 10 packs of stickers. ( I actually bought it with packs of cards to start with but were told they were another game and were 'wrong' so had to go out to get the right ones )
Well, there was absolute concentration whilst he opened each packet, read out each name/ground/team, (louder if it was a silvery one). He then concentrated on sticking them all down one by one. It took ages., and then he flicked through each page admiring his work and stating which teams he had no players for.
Sounds as if that little boy of yours is having as much fun collecting these stickers as we did when were kids ;-)
haha.
He also then told me, in great detail, about how the first one he completed was the division one panini book in 1983. The stickers were bigger, better quality and only 10p per pack.
No doubles yet, but I expect the face of disappointment from that soon!
I remember collecting them in the 70s and Charlton being a second division club got one team photo and a half sticker shiny club badge (shared with Birmingham or somebody similar). I wasn’t too bothered with collecting the rest after I had finished Charlton. I also recall getting a semi rare sticker and another kid swapping it for 50 stickers with me. Then I got that sticker again within a week. Also recall a boy who’s dad owned a sweet shop. I think he nicked a whole box because he needed a couple of players. The class room was like a factory opening sticker packs and he didn’t get any of the cards he needed! He looked devastated. I’m pretty sure you could send off for the last few cards you needed too, so it was a total waste! And when your were close to completing the bloody thing, it looked so tatty that your mum threw it away!
I have a 95 Panini album of the Football League and the first sticker I got was at the top was Garry Nelson. But I have in that album which I completed Jose Riga's two immediate permanent predecessors in their playing days. Phil Parkinson then of Reading and Chris Powell then of Southend.
I remember collecting them in the eighties. Used to cause actual fist fights in the playground. Once saw some kid get his lights punched out because he wouldn't swap about fifty stickers for one player another kid needed. My overriding memory of them is the conspiracy theories - some stickers were as rare as rocking-horse shit. I needed Billy McNeill (Or Billy McF***ingNeill to give him his full pedigree name) one year for about two months. Had a pile of about 500 doubles, triples, quadruples and God knows what else (I still have nightmares about Mark Poxy McGhee's grinning mug in that Celtic top - I must have had 20 of that f***er). When some kid called Golam Chowdhury got him as a double, he was the luckiest kid in school - he got a pile of stickers from me that you could break a bloody window with in return.
I don't have kids, so can't give myself an excuse to start the madness all over again...
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50p a pack
Guess who just ran down to the corner-shop-that-isn't-on-a-corner and treated himself
With the '79 set I bought a whole box of cards when I bought the book. Thought I'd crack it but ended up with masses of doubles.
Most doubles I had: Sammy Chung (Wolves Manager), Gordon Lee (Everton Manager), Bristol City Badge.
Or even just themselves.
Whoever said we were a bunch of
stampsticker collectors.Swap you two adidas for a Coca-Cola
Well, there was absolute concentration whilst he opened each packet, read out each name/ground/team, (louder if it was a silvery one). He then concentrated on sticking them all down one by one. It took ages., and then he flicked through each page admiring his work and stating which teams he had no players for.
He also then told me, in great detail, about how the first one he completed was the division one panini book in 1983. The stickers were bigger, better quality and only 10p per pack.
No doubles yet, but I expect the face of disappointment from that soon!
I don't have kids, so can't give myself an excuse to start the madness all over again...
just how much is that New World Cup sticker album....