Panini World Cup 2018 Sticker Album

[martino]

An interesting aerticle from the BBC website

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43566749

[Dorking]

They were giving the albums away for free at the England game last night, and happily giving them to adults as much as kids, they're not silly, the adult collectors are more serious than the kids.

Interesting that you can buy a book and complete set of stickers from Brazil 2014 for £60 off Panini. And numerous other collections too.

Depends if you don't mind waiting a couple of years or so, if so you'd save a heck of a lot, and also be able to stick them all in neatly, compared to the 'back and forth' through the book that regular collectors do, meaning their book is like a battered Xmas Radio Times by gthe time they have finished

I think I'll give it a miss though, my era was the Mexico 86 book, which I completed and still have

[martino]

There must be a lot of guessing about who will be in each squad.

Any surprises in the England squad in the Panini album?

Hopefully Gareth Southgate got one of the freebie hand-outs last night!

[Dorking]

There are 18 England players in the album, and it's never 100% accurate but I'd imagine almost all of these make the squad



573. Team Photo (England)
574. Joe Hart (England)
575. Jordan Pickford (England)
576. Gary Cahill (England)
577. Kyle Walker (England)
578. John Stones (England)
579. Ryan Bertrand (England)
580. Danny Rose (England)
581. Phil Jones (England)
582. Jordan Henderson (England)
583. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (England)
584. Dele Alli (England)
585. Eric Dier (England)
586. Adam Lallana (England)
587. Jesse Lingard (England)
588. Raheem Sterling (England)
589. Harry Kane (England)
590. Marcus Rashford (England)
591. Jamie Vardy (England)