⚽ Sport

Stickers, kits, and results that arrived on a teleprinter.

12 things

1950s 1952

A coupon collected from the door each week, filled in with a biro, and checked against the teleprinter on Saturday teatime.

⚽ Sport

1970s 1978

Foil-wrapped packets of five, an album with 500 spaces, and a shiny badge you would trade three players for.

⚽ Sport📰 Comics & Magazines

1980s 1980

A BBC Sunday afternoon fixture with a theme tune more famous than the sport it introduced.

⚽ Sport📺 Telly

1980s 1986

The album everyone remembers, from the World Cup everyone remembers, with a hand-based controversy in the middle of it.

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1980s 1988

The vidiprinter on Grandstand, spelling out scores slowly enough that you could feel the result arriving.

⚽ Sport📺 Telly

1990s 1992

Lycra, foam pugil sticks, and the Eliminator. Saturday night ITV at its absolute peak.

📺 Telly⚽ Sport

1990s 1993

Saturday afternoon spent hitting the reveal button and waiting for a score to change.

⚽ Sport📺 Telly

1990s 1996

Sticker albums moved to the new Premier League, and the badges were foil, and everyone needed the same three.

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2000s 2005

A spreadsheet with a football badge on it, and one of the most compulsive things ever put on a computer.

🕹️ Video Games⚽ Sport

2010s 2012

The Olympics, the opening ceremony, Super Saturday, and volunteers in purple and pink everywhere.

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2010s 2016

Sticker collecting came back as an adult hobby, with organised swap meets and spreadsheets.

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