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 ...

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 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 ...

Ever since 1970 when they were first produced, the countdown to the World Cup has really started with the arrival of the Panini stickers: 638 players, teams, stadiums and badges to be collected and ...

PANINI football stickers were so big in the 80s that even the tooth fairy got involved. This reporter can recall vividly the thrill of lifting up the pillow to find that he had been left two yellow ...

To find out whether women's football is finally going mainstream, Fifa could commission a focus group. Or it could pay for an opinion poll, phoning 1,000 people to see how many can name a female ...

School playground trading, the joyous feeling of unpacking a 'shiny', and the rage-inducing cry of "not another one" after getting Lee Hendrie for what felt like the 20th time. For generations, ...

A boom in online swap shops has given a generation of nostalgia-driven collectors the chance to dust off their old Panini sticker albums, writes aficionado Greg Lansdowne A man sells stickers for the ...

PANINI, an Italian firm, has produced sticker albums for World Cups since the tournament in Mexico in 1970; in 2014, there were 640 stickers to collect. The market for the stickers is not just for ...

Europe’s top court has ruled that Italian company Panini did not breach competition rules or violate the terms of the single market in its sales of football stickers. EURACTIV’s partner Italia Oggi ...

The latest NFL release features autographs and memorabilia of legends and stars. 2025 Panini Immaculate Collection Football ...

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 ...