For anyone who was forced to make their own shiny of the Wolves badge, laughed at Hamish McAlpine's Partick Thistle Perm or had dozens of Clive Whitehead swaps the year Brizzle City made the top league then this might be worth a watch, I dont think its a repeat.
ITV4 2245 tonight
Stuck On You: The Football Sticker Story
https://youtu.be/IisyMLgxvv0
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Briefly
Pannini set up by an Italian news vender
4 English men run the English franchise
Maxwell buys English version
They set up merlin
Sell same for 50 million
The four partners had re-mortgaged their homes to set up Merlin but, following writs that were served on the individuals by Maxwell's solicitors and pressure from the odious individual on wholesalers not to stock Merlin's products, they were within days of going bankrupt. But WWF, of all things, bought them time and Maxwell's death allowed Merlin to reach agreement with the PL. TOPPs then bought the company out for USD50m.
The FKS pictures from 1970 demonstrate exactly what was discussed in the programme about their shoddy quality, with cut and paste heads and plain shirts
I've got a complete Euro 80, a complete Division 1 1993 and a complete World Cup 2006. I've still got the swaps from the last two of those.
I try not to make the mistake of working out what I've spent and prefer not to reflect on the fact that I'm obviously a troubled man-child attempting to live in the past.
I had about 30 Ian Ormandroyds