It’s 40 years old now, and unsurprisingly showing its age; a bit dog-eared, the staples are rusting, the centre pages have come loose. But it remains, four decades on, an evocative portal for football ...

The following are two excerpts from Greg Lansdowne’s chronicling of Panini’s World Cup Stickers: Panini Football Stickers – The Official Celebration. Lansdowne and Bloomsbury Press have graciously ...

This is an excerpt from Greg Lansdowne’s chronicling of Panini’s World Cup Stickers: Panini Football Stickers – The Official Celebration. Lansdowne and Bloomsbury Press have graciously allowed us to ...

If it's hard to believe that football stickers, six centimetres square, could really be a source of corporate warfare, try speaking to those who've worked for either of the industry's two rival ...

Fans have been filling Panini albums for six decades. If you have any old stickers, you might want to get them valued By Richard Foster for The Football Mine There are sticker collections gathering ...

I have a collection of sticker albums, predominantly 'Panini', for football tournaments (World Cup and Euros) dating back to Euro 88 in West Germany. I would love to know the estimated current value ...

“This isn’t just a photo of Bukayo Saka. This is M&S Bukayo Saka.” Yes, football stickers used to come from the newsagent. But this spring, throughout the build-up to Euro 2024, you can also pick them ...

Panini - a tasty sandwich from a posh deli, a 17th Century Italian artist ... or the football sticker books that transfixed a generation of young football fans? Of course for any fanatic of the ...

Amid the myriad glories of a Premier League career, the fabulous wealth, the sculpted brands, the PR gloss, most players will not clock that they have this week been assigned a precious and indelible ...

‘Got, got, got, need...’ are words often overheard in classrooms and playgrounds at the time of every major football tournament as kids huddle together to swap stickers and ‘shinies’ of their ...