Panini Football Stickers
Got, got, got, need.
Foil-wrapped packets of five, an album with 500 spaces, and a shiny badge you would trade three players for.
The economics were brutal. Finishing an album meant buying hundreds of packets or running a functioning trading market in the playground, which most schools did.
The foils were currency. Swaps were conducted with the seriousness of a commodities floor.
Cost back then
5p a packet
Goes for now
Complete 1970s albums £200–£2,000
