R.I.P. Panini Sticker Albums

Tom Hark Preston Park

Will Post For Cash

Jul 6, 2003

70,613

• Jul 12, 2003

• #1

Bah! Panini UK Ltd has had its appeal turned down - its classic sticker albums are now banned because of copyright infringements of the Premier League logo and the club badges. A truly sad day for kids and anoraks everywhere.

 

Trigger

Well-known member

Jul 4, 2003

40,457

Brighton

• Jul 12, 2003

• #2

Awwww man, Panini sticker albums are what growin up is all about! I remember completing my first album (Mexico 86) Today is a very sad day indeed!

The legendary Mexico 86 album!

 

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Yorkie

Sussex born and bred

Jul 5, 2003

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dahn sarf

• Jul 12, 2003

• #3

I think they used to rip kids off. My son had scores of swaps because they didn't issue equal amounts of the players.

It was a ploy to get kids to spend more and more of their pocket money to complete their albums. It almost became a compulsive obsession with him.

 

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Shizuoka Dolphin

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Jul 8, 2003

6,987

N/A

• Jul 12, 2003

• #4

Very true about the limiting of certain players - I remeber how hard it was to lay your hands on a Bryan Robson or Ian Rush yet you had a huge surplus of dodgy Coventry City defenders and QPR midfielders...

 

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e block rebellion

Member

Jul 6, 2003

138

shoreham

• Jul 12, 2003

• #5

truely a sad day

 

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Happy Seagull

Barca Cule

Jul 5, 2003

3,822

If i'm here then i'm on my laptop, if i'm not, the

• Jul 12, 2003

• #6

My first album was the Mexico 86 too

It wasn't a total rip off as you were able to send off for your last 50(i think) stickers needed by post. :blues:

 

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gonzo666

New member

Jul 5, 2003

249

southwick

• Jul 12, 2003

• #7

what a sad day

right im off to see the prime minister to get him to do something about this

 

Sonic

Spiky little bugger!

Jul 6, 2003

889

Patcham

• Jul 12, 2003

• #8

Mexico 86? I remember finishing the World Cup 82 book.

I still had Panini 80-85 in a drawer until a few years ago when I chucked them out.

 

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DTES

Well-known member

Jul 7, 2003

6,022

London

• Jul 12, 2003

• #9

Sonic said:

I still had Panini 80-85 in a drawer until a few years ago when I chucked them out.

Click to expand...

er... Why??

 

Jam The Man

Well-known member

Jul 5, 2003

8,142

South East North Lancing

• Jul 12, 2003

• #10

my first was Mexico 86! Still can't believe some of the dodgy super imposed pics!

 

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alan partridge

Active member

Jul 7, 2003

5,256

Linton Travel Tavern

• Jul 12, 2003

• #11

thats very sad. my first one was football 81. i kind of liked all the lower league 'half' sticker ones. then again the albion were top flight then and got the silver club badge

 

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Shizuoka Dolphin

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Jul 8, 2003

6,987

N/A

• Jul 12, 2003

• #12

Got, got, got, got, need, got, got, need, got, got, got, got, need desperately! Got, got got...


I'll swap you three normals for one silver!

 

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Eddie the Seagull

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Jul 6, 2003

2,214

Crowborough

• Jul 12, 2003

• #13

Boo-Hoo........

The only one I completed was Europa '80.

 

Rambo

Don't Push me

Jul 8, 2003

3,969

Worthing/Vietnam

• Jul 13, 2003

• #14

The first one I completed was football 83 - albion in Div 1!!
Any one ever remember the two swansea players that had there names and photos mixed up? - sad git yes i know.
Coat....

 

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ezzoud

New member

Jul 5, 2003

226

• Jul 13, 2003

• #15

That really is the end of an era and speaks volumes for what the game has now become. The only one I completed was Football League 1977-78, still got it in the loft falling to pieces, something to show the grandchildren etc etc....

 

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simon swagbag

Member

Jul 8, 2003

489

Eastbourne

• Jul 13, 2003

• #16

I've got Soccer Stars 77-78 somewhere, completed.
"Special Jubilee price 10p" it says on the front.
Trevor Brooking, Steve Coppell, Pat Jennings.
But Football '78 was the big one at Hoddern School in Peacehaven, even one of the teachers, Mr Escott, started collecting!

 

brighton rock

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Jul 5, 2003

4,430

lancing

• Jul 13, 2003

• #17

shame ,its all down to money these days