Every page of my Panini Football 1990 Sticker Album - Complete

Many moons ago when I was a lad, all I thought about was football. Wind, rain, hailstone, or shine, If there was a ball to kick, I'd be out there doing it.

If the ball burst (normally through overuse on concrete), or some idiot (sometimes me) kicked it onto the school roof, we'd all be completely lost. I didn't know anything else during school break-time.

I'd pick up my dinner ticket (a benefit of single parent families), use it to buy a bag of chips(fries) with cheese, and 4 small sugar infested drinks, and head out with my hands full onto the playground.

Seagulls would lurk, watching carefully for any chips that may be dropped as I raced around trying to get involved early whilst rapidly munching away on my lunch. I never got shat on by a bird at school but no word of a lie, the tallest guy, my friend Darren, suffered 5 times at the hands, or butts of these low flying animals - an average of once a year.

After school we'd usually head to a known field (no mobiles required), and sometimes play til the sun went down. Occasionally, the police would arrive and reluctantly tell us a neighbor had complained about the noise. Football kept us out of trouble, and the police knew it. Oh well, on to the next field.

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The weekend was when the professionals played. No 'Monday night football', or 'Friday night live'. Saturday 3pm was kick off for almost all fixtures, apart from one televised 'Divison 1' game on Sunday at 3pm. That was it bar the European games and Internationals, and in 1990 (from 1986), no English teams were playing in Europe anyway. source

We were starved of watching top level football until the early 90's when SKY television came along. However, we did have our sticker albums in which we could idolize our heroes of the day. And today, I present to you my 1990 Panini Football 1990 Sticker Album - Complete and (fairly) intact.

If you would like to see close-ups of any teams/players or pages, let me know.

Also, if you have a similar collection, please share!

English Football First Division

_{Front cover (with SF2 badge for proof of authenticity}

_{1989 - Players of the Year}

_Arsenal

_{Aston Villa}

_{Charlton Athletic}

_Chelsea

_{Coventry City}

_{Crystal Palace}

_{Derby County}

_Everton

_Liverpool

_{Luton Town}

_{Manchester City}

_{Manchester United}

_{A rather younger looking Sir Alex Ferguson}

_Millwall

_{Norwich City}

_{Nottingham Forest}

_{Queen's Park Rangers}

_{Sheffield Wednesday}

_Southampton

_{Tottenham Hotspur}

_Wimbledon

_{World Cup greats}

Scottish First Division

_Aberdeen

_Celtic

_Dundee

_{Dundee United}

_{Dunfermline Athletic}

_{Heart of Midlothian}

_Hibernian

_Motherwell

_Rangers

_{Who said that? Commentators of the day}

_{Back cover}

_{Poster - Europe's Finest}

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Being the average writer and conveyor of words that I am, I cannot possibly explain the delights involved in opening a packet of these stickers, aged 11-12, and finding a 'badge' or player you didn't own already, and then placing it carefully into the album. One of my joys of being a child.

I believe this album took months to fill, all my pocket money, and plenty of trading at school.

When I finally completed it, I had a stack of duplicates or 'swapsies' and ended up giving them all away in a huge smash n' grab style way, throwing the lot up into the air in the school yard.

Dear football, I loved you then more than I do now, but I'll cherish this album, and Saturday 3pm. (and 12:30 and 5:30 these days).

Amusingly to me, my daughter was born on a Saturday at 3:05 pm :) Step aside football!

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The first person to guess my favourite team gets a 50% up-vote.

The first person to guess my favorite player in this album gets a 100% up-vote and some extra love and respect.

Thanks for reading, and stay tuned for all the pages of these completed albums.

Cheers

Asher

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