Panini World Cup 2006 Stickers

[Gray - YPC]

A couple of lads in the pub started doing the books, and I was taking the piss at first, but then work gave out free books and let you buy stickers at a discount so I started collecting them. I'm now seriously addicted, and can't stop buying stickers!!

 

Is anyone else sad enough to be doing the same? Got any swaps?

 

I'm down to my last 50 stickers that are needed, as we have a swapsie Sunday in the pub each week, as well as there being loads of stickers knocking about work.

 

So... anyone got a load of swaps available? I've got loads myself, so we could do business!!

[Guest Kev]

Ant (15) and Liam (9) have grown out of football stickers now.

[Gray - YPC]

Ant (15) and Liam (9) have grown out of football stickers now.

And so has my nephew (14) and niece (12).

 

My best mate (26), drinking buddy (23), barman (22), and landlady (40) have not

[The Invisible Man]

So... anyone got a load of swaps available? I've got loads myself, so we could do business!!

 

 

Haha quite worryingly i'm collecting them. Have lots of swaps, but i don't think doing it over the internet can ever live up to all those lunchtimes going through people's collections.

Edited May 31, 2006 by Nick17

[AntM]

I'm down to my last 42.....

[Dalglish]

No 217 (Sasa Ilic) is the last one missing

 

Hopefully I'll get thim tomorrow via trade

[Guest Jack Bauer]

9? Jeez. My cousin always gets my uncle to flip out whenever he asks for cards.

[Owen1978]

Do u still get the free gum with them?

Edited May 31, 2006 by Owen1978

[Clay Davis]

some fella in the co-op by ours was buyin a few packets, he was about 60, i thought he was buyin them for a grandson or something but then he got his book out, opened his stickers, peeled off the back, licked the back of them (he actually licked them) and stuck them in.

 

i near pissed myself

[Greenoak]

I finally got round to starting off for my boy ( 11 ) and girl ( 10 )

 

Bought 20 packets to get them going.

 

When he goes back to school he can start the old swapsies.

 

Best bit about them is the trading lark.

 

Plus when he watches spain on the telly he can i got moro in my sticker book, Why is he not playing????

 

 

I remeber doing it when I was a lad so good for them.

 

Who cares if it costs a bundle. So did my world cup tickets !!!!!

[Tetti]

Bought one for my 9 year old lad. Will be opening the first 10 packs on Friday when we head off on a long rail trip. I'm definitely more excited about it than he is. But he loves trading those Yuhgio (sic) cards, so I'm sure he will go for this. Will post swaps available / needed next week!

[Greenoak]

Wow

 

Finished

 

You must know a lot of traders

 

I read about a london pub that has a swaps board, Where drinkers look for those thats missing and can take it as long as they replace it with another sticker that MUST not be on the board. No doubles allowed.

 

So grown adults carry around the sticker books just like the kids. Now that is funny.

[cymrococh]

The lads I play football with are doing it, will have to find somewhere to buy some today.

 

How much are the packs these days?

[Gray - YPC]

The lads I play football with are doing it, will have to find somewhere to buy some today.

 

How much are the packs these days?

35p a pack, where you get 5 stickers.

[cymrococh]

Not too bad then. will get a few today.

[AntM]

Not too bad then. will get a few today.

 

I warn you, from personal experience, if you get Gary Neville in one of your packs you'll feel physically sick.

 

 

I only need about 40 now.

 

Which ones do you need Gray? Post them up.... I'll have a shuffle through my swaps...

[Toe]

Have the 1980 - 81 panini league complete but thats it.

 

Must be worth a fiver by now

[Gray - YPC]

I need the following 14 to finish my book:

3 - Emblem Shiny

22 - Lahm (Germany)

29 - Frings (Germany)

112 - Paraguay Team

118 - Gamarra (Paraguay)

151 - Sweden Shiny

210 - Dragutinovic (Serbia)

214 - Koroman (Serbia)

264 - Iran Shiny

426 - Grella (Australia)

500 - Chun-Soo (Korea)

560 - Rotan (Ukraine)

569 - Tunisia Shiny

573 - Jaidi (Tunisia)

[The Invisible Man]

I have a spare Jaidi, wanna swap

[Cobs]

3 - Emblem Shiny GOT

22 - Lahm (Germany) GOT

29 - Frings (Germany) GOT

112 - Paraguay Team GOT

118 - Gamarra (Paraguay) GOT

151 - Sweden Shiny GOT

210 - Dragutinovic (Serbia) GOT

214 - Koroman (Serbia) GOT

264 - Iran Shiny GOT

426 - Grella (Australia) GOT

500 - Chun-Soo (Korea) GOT

560 - Rotan (Ukraine) GOT

569 - Tunisia Shiny GOT

573 - Jaidi (Tunisia) GOT

 

 

[RP]

My kids are collecting them - I'll get a list of their swaps and put them up here.

[Will]

And how innocent pastimes of yore are corrupted once again - parents swapping Panini stickers for them? On the interweb?

 

*shakesheadsadly*

[Tetti]

 

Serbia's football sticker mania

By Matthew Prodger

BBC News, Belgrade

 

 

 

Every Saturday and Sunday at 1700 a crowd gathers at a fountain outside Belgrade's landmark Hotel Moscow.

 

Sometimes there are a few dozen, on other occasions hundreds of people.

 

It looks like a street market, but there are no stalls.

 

It sounds like an old-fashioned trading floor, but the assets changing hands here with such intensity are not of the financial kind.

 

The people of Belgrade are swapping football stickers - thousands of them.

 

Schoolchildren across the globe have been familiar with this World Cup ritual for years.

 

They spend their pocket money on packets of stickers emblazoned with the images of the competitors in this year's tournament.

 

Collector's item

 

The idea is to stick the pictures in an album in a race to complete every team in the world cup.

 

 

But finding all the players to finish the book is almost impossible unless you swap those you have a surplus of for those you need. And that is what is happening here every weekend.

 

What marks Belgrade apart is that these are not in the main schoolchildren, they are adults.

 

People like Dalibor Toskovic, 27, sporting dreadlocks, a football shirt, and a wedding ring. His wife, incidentally, is also swapping football stickers.

 

Dalibor is having a good day. He tells me with a huge beam that he has just completed the Argentine team, and finally tracked down a hard-to-find sticker of Switzerland's Philippe Senderos.

 

"This is all about nostalgia for childhood'' he says, clutching a pile of stickers as thick as two packs of cards. "I've filled every album since Mexico '86."

 

Is he tempted to sell what are fast becoming collector's items? "Never. No price would be enough."

 

Like a mating ritual

 

Another man boasts that he could get hundreds of euros for his collection on the auction website eBay.

 

People wander around the fountain calling out the names of players they need, seeking a reply from those who can provide them.

 

It is a little like a mating ritual.

 

Milos Saranovic, a sports journalist with the Serbian TV station B92, is here with his young son, hunting for Serbia and Montenegro's striker Nikola Zigic.

 

"Collecting football stickers is a very important part of every World Cup," he says.

 

"It's important to stay young as long as possible and this is something from your childhood that you can continue throughout life. But it's a bit strange seeing men in their 30's and 40's swapping stickers and acting like kids."

 

Expensive hobby

 

Next to him a boy no older than seven is negotiating with three men towering over him. He is bargaining hard, demanding five stickers for the one they want.

 

By the end of the day Milos and his son have completed their albums.

 

"The job is done," he says. "Now we can prepare for Germany."

 

But for most people in Serbia and Montenegro a ticket to the World Cup is a distant dream.

 

Getting a visa is one problem - paying for the trip and entry to a game is another. This is not a wealthy country.

 

Even the hobby of collecting stickers can cost more than a third of the average monthly wage here.

 

But finding that elusive player that completes the book is - they say - victory in itself.

[Gunga Din]

having read this thread i wish i had started to collect them. i used to love collecting them when i was a kid

[Tetti]

Its not too late - 99p album and 30 quids worth of stickers and you will be where I am right now. I.e nowhere near the end.

 

You can also buy individual stickers for 8p off Pannini, 50 at a a time, which will start to look more cost effective soon for us.