Sport Fraser Wilson 07:00, 20 Dec 2016 Updated 13:22, 28 Mar 2018 Panini football stickers in the good old days ...

Eighty unopened packets for the 1984 English and Scottish football leagues sold for £1,700 while 50 packets for the FKS Wonderful World of Soccer sticker album for 1971-72.

Soccer Stars 1971/72 stickers sold for £1,500. (Image: LoddonAuctions/BNPS) He stored them in a back room of the shop after they went out of date and has kept them ever since.

Panini’s first album entirely made up of self-adhesive stickers had been the Calciatori 1972–73, as the first World Cup album, Mexico 70, had still been made up primarily of cards, with ...

With Euro 2016 just days away, soccer fans of all ages are scrambling to fill their Panini sticker albums. Collector's items are a lucrative business - and an exercise in probability theory.

The growth of the stickers mirroring the growth of soccer. Antonio Allegra, Panini's marketing director, told us how collecting the World Cup albums over the decades became a rite of passage; also ...

In cities across the United States, World Cup fever has arrived. It's measurable in the form of Panini soccer stickers that are being bought in stores across the country, and the number of empty boxes ...

Panini, the company known for its tradition of creating soccer trading cards and stickers, is relinquishing that role for the Premier League to Fanatics brand Topps. The American company will become ...

MIAMI, FL - JUNE 01: A Panini World Cup Soccer album sits on a table with stickers pasted in it during an event at the Soccer Locker of Miami on June 01, 2014 in Miami, Florida. Fans of World Cup ...

A boy holds Panini soccer World Cup stickers at a trading and meeting point for sticker collectors in LjubljanaPicture: SRDJAN ZIVULOVIC/REUTERS Credit: SRDJAN ZIVULOVIC/REUTERS ...

Stickers from the 1978 World Cup (Image: LoddonAuctions/BNPS) He stored them in a back room of the shop after they went out of date and has kept them ever since. They were sold at Lodden Auctions ...