rscot
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Post by rscot on May 26, 2021 16:21:10 GMT
My first memories of international football was the 1978 World Cup. Do any of you guys remember getting your Panini World Cup sticker albums for the 1978 World Cup in Argentina.
I think it is one of those formative experiences as a youngster. You and all your mates going around to the shops to buy packs of stickers with terrible chewing gum, spending all your pocket money to fill up the albums. Becoming familiar with all the players from the different countries taking part in the competition and the various stadiums used in the event.
You would go to school with all your “doublers” like a big wad of cash and try to hustle the other collectors for the stickers that you hadn’t already got in your album.
The obsession with filling up the book, the joy and satisfaction as teams were filled in and the different sections all gradually become completed. The yearning for those rare, seemingly unobtainable stickers that you couldn’t ever seem to find, to fill that huge, glaring hole in the page that would stand out like a scar on the landscape whenever the page was open.
Ah great memories
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Post by rscot on May 26, 2021 16:22:02 GMT
Ah that’s right, England never qualified 🤷♂️
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Post by acricketer on May 26, 2021 16:25:43 GMT
Esso coins! No contest!
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Post by gtleighsr3 on May 26, 2021 16:27:55 GMT
Lol,buy"""""" packs of stickers.
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Post by 72bus on May 26, 2021 16:33:13 GMT
It was football cards in my day . Wed put them up against the wall and you'd flick other cards to try and knock them down. The one who knocked the last one down took all the cards on the floor
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Post by rscot on May 26, 2021 16:39:02 GMT
Lol,buy"""""" packs of stickers. Honest, wholesome lads we were, always happy to help the aged cross the road. Although being brought up in a “New Town”, which was specifically designed using underpasses and pedestrian flyover to remove the need to cross roads, it was a rare occurrence. |
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Post by gtleighsr3 on May 26, 2021 16:42:17 GMT
Why the fuck would u buy them with Martin's amongst others use to leave boxes of stuff on low shelves to er help one self.
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Post by gtleighsr3 on May 26, 2021 16:43:33 GMT
It was football cards in my day . Wed put them up against the wall and you'd flick other cards to try and knock them down. The one who knocked the last one down took all the cards on the floor Was that in your dmob suit ?  |
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Post by rscot on May 26, 2021 16:47:12 GMT
Why the fuck would u buy them with Martin's amongst others use to leave boxes of stuff on low shelves to er help one self. The shopkeepers here were insightful enough to realise that these stickers were gold dust to us young lads and the boxes of stickers were kept safely behind the counter |
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Post by gtleighsr3 on May 26, 2021 16:50:33 GMT
We did the stickers at my school in Brentwood,the girls did M and S,Nick stuff take it back no receipts and still get cash. And we had a couple of first years who would literally rob any shop for anything to order. Love towie land.
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Post by Stanley75 on May 26, 2021 18:03:09 GMT
My first memories of international football was the 1978 World Cup. Do any of you guys remember getting your Panini World Cup sticker albums for the 1978 World Cup in Argentina.I think it is one of those formative experiences as a youngster. You and all your mates going around to the shops to buy packs of stickers with terrible chewing gum, spending all your pocket money to fill up the albums. Becoming familiar with all the players from the different countries taking part in the competition and the various stadiums used in the event. You would go to school with all your “doublers” like a big wad of cash and try to hustle the other collectors for the stickers that you hadn’t already got in your album. The obsession with filling up the book, the joy and satisfaction as teams were filled in and the different sections all gradually become completed. The yearning for those rare, seemingly unobtainable stickers that you couldn’t ever seem to find, to fill that huge, glaring hole in the page that would stand out like a scar on the landscape whenever the page was open. Ah great memories Very much so, rscot. Great memories. I've still got those albums somewhere. Could never chuck stuff like that out. |
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Post by 72bus on May 27, 2021 9:00:26 GMT
We did the stickers at my school in Brentwood,the girls did M and S,Nick stuff take it back no receipts and still get cash. And we had a couple of first years who would literally rob any shop for anything to order. Love towie land. went to Brentwood once ... It was closed |
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