Panini Sticker Album: Mexico 86
Maradona, the shiny badges, and a playground economy.
The album everyone remembers, from the World Cup everyone remembers, with a hand-based controversy in the middle of it.
The 1986 album is the one collectors chase hardest. Buying packets outside the newsagent on the way to school was a daily ritual for six weeks.
Sticker swaps at school followed strict conventions. A shiny was worth three normals, and everybody knew who had the spare Maradona.
Cost back then
20p for six
Goes for now
£300–£1,500 complete
