Today (May 29th), The EFL announced that they secured a deal with Italian Trading Card company Panini, to produced Trading Cards and Trading stickers for, and this is a huge kicker here, all three divisions of the EFL.
I have a mountain of cards and stickers from World Cups, Euros, Premier League ETC. I’ve been eagerly waiting for this type of deal to transpire as it would be the first time (I believe) Wycombe are involved in this type of deal.
Panini has overtaken Topps (Match Attax) as the leading brand of Trading Cards over the recent years, with Topps only having the UEFA Champions League, Europa League and Conference League (Ironically Panini had exclusive rights until 2015). This is another to add to Panini’s collection (Pun intended)
Somewhere I have a 1970 World Cup panini book, it had the 1966 team in red shirts on the cover, Bobby Moore on his team mates shoulders holding aloft the Jules Rimet Trophy. I thought England would always be the World Champions.
Must have my completed Merlin Premier League ‘96 album knocking around somewhere. Should probably put that particular achievement on my CV at some point given how proud I am of it.
I like the idea of this in principle, although having three Accrington reserve players to try and swap sounds even more challenging than the 11 David May’s I once had.
Six years ago I was working in Bologna and took some time out to visit the Ferrari Museum in Modena and also noticed a rather fine small museum housing a private collection just up the road.
The museum was in a posh farmyard and looked closed when I arrived as only two cars in the car park.
I had been inside for 5-10 mins with only one other couple looking around when a middle aged gent came in and started tinkering with some exhibits.
I had a few questions so we started chatting and I am in the car industry myself, he was very knowledgeable and interesting to talk to.
I had not initially realised but the museum was owned by the Panini sticker family and I had been speaking with the man himself for some time.
Highly recommend a visit to his car museum, it’s free but they ask for donations, no sticker museum though.
I had the Football League 95 album which was Panini IIRC. The ‘Division One’ teams all had full squad stickers but the Second and Third Division clubs had to settle for half/half player stickers with only selected squad members featured.
The TOPPS Euro 24 album was the worst thing it could ever have been. I understand the trading card stuff they have. But they were trying to be a sticker album as well as having different rarity stickers for the same sticker. The whole thing was ridiculous. Completed the thing but never again going with TOPPS.
