When I was a child, I loved stickers. I had stickers on my bicycle, stickers on my skateboard, stickers on my schoolbooks. One time, I put stickers on my bedroom wall, only to discover that they pulled off the wallpaper if you tried to remove them. My mother was not impressed.
But the stickers I loved the most were football (soccer) stickers. This was long before the advent of those fancy sticker books from the likes of Panini. In fact, my stickers and the books into which they were stuck often came from a petrol station.
I had one to coincide with a World Cup in the mid 1970s. But the one I remember most vividly was a navy blue sticker book which, if memory serves me correctly, came from Esso. Within that book was a space for stickers representing the English first and second division, together with the old Scottish first division. I remember the Scottish element particularly well because it took literally months of sticker collecting and swapping before I finally added the badge of the final club – Falkirk.
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