Since its inception in 1970, the Panini World Cup sticker album has evolved from a simple collectors’ hobby inspired by one of the most famous sporting events, into a worldwide cultural and commercial ...

Panini, the football sticker firm behind the playground craze of the 1970s and 80s, is celebrating its 60th anniversary. How did it survive tabloid warfare, a thieving tycoon's clutches and ...

‘Football 82’ - the fifth Figurine Panini album dedicated to the English and Scottish game - showcases the era when, before Sky invented football, our top teams were made up of players called Colin, ...

Even before the first ball is kicked, Russia 2018 is shaping up to be more popular in the United States than any previous World Cup according to at least one metric: the sale of Panini stickers. For ...

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 ...

It’s not just a sticker, it’s a collectible. Sports fans these days are passing up their trading cards, once a staple of American childhood, for collectible stickers. With the start of the ...

The guys at ExtraTime Radio are in the World Cup spirit, and that can only mean pasting hundreds of Panini stickers into a book in order to commemorate the tournament. With that in mind, we're giving ...

The plan had been one packet, just to see what they looked like. Then it became two, so I could put together a five-a-side team. Then my friend Gavin, a Manchester United Women fan, sent over photos ...

“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 ...

Jonathan Ward, 56, was left surprised by the high level of interest his Mexico 1970 World Cup sticker album received despite missing six stickers A PANINI football sticker album has been sold for a ...

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 ...