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Football nostalgia blog by Manny Hawks, Richard Allinson, Emlyn Shepherdson-Jones and Mat Jolin-Beech.

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Our new post from Manny Hawks takes a look at the tragic passing of Marc-Vivien Foe.

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A quality footballer and great human being.

#Lens #Lyon #Ligue1 #WHUFC #MCFC #PL #Cameroon #AFCON #WorldCup #football
502: Marc Vivien-Foe, West Ham United, Merlin’s F.A. Premier League 2000, Millennium Edition Sticker Collection
At the end of the 2019/20 season Jude Bellingham left his boyhood club Birmingham City to join German giants Borussia Dortmund. He first joi...
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Happy Birthday to David Hirst - hope he's had a good one!

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Emlyn Shepherdson-Jones on a man who went through the ringer.

#BarnsleyFC #SWFC #SaintsFC #EFL #PL #football
459: David Hirst, Southampton, Merlin’s Premier League 99 Official Sticker Album
We are in the hands of Emlyn Jones today who takes a look at the career of a Premier League hero and the unfortunate injury that ended his c...
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December 7, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Happy Birthday to Andy Booth - hope he's had a good one!

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Manny Hawks on elusive strikers/stickers.

#HTAFC #SWFC #THFC #EFL #PL #football
404: Andy Booth, Sheffield Wednesday, Merlin’s Premier League 98 Official Sticker Collection
Searching through the sticker books to put together this blog has brought back many memories. It is impossible for me to see the...
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December 6, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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A belated Happy Birthday for yesterday to Carlton Palmer - hope he had a good one!

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Manny Hawks on the importance of hitting Les.

#WBA #SWFC #LUFC #SaintsFC #NFFC #PUSB #SCFC #EFL #PL #England #ThreeLions #football
196: Carlton Palmer, Leeds United, Merlin’s Premier League 95 Sticker Collection
“What was he doing in the f***ing box? Didn’t we tell him to hold the middle of the pitch?” It’s fair to say that this is probably not the ...
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December 6, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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A belated Happy Birthday to the legendary Paul McGrath - hope he's had a good one!

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Manny Hawks on a classy operator on and off the pitch.

#SPAFC #MUFC #AVFC #SUFC #EFL #PL #Ireland #WorldCup #football
34: Paul McGrath, Aston Villa, Merlin’s Premier League 95 Sticker Collection
One of the many joys of writing this blog is that whenever you feel like you might be running out of ideas someone or something reminds you ...
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December 4, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Happy Birthday to John Burridge - hope he's had a good one!

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Rich Allinson on a cult hero and top keeper.

#BlackpoolFC #AVFC #CPFC #QPR #Wolves #SUFC #SaintsFC #NUFC #Hibs #MCFC #EFL #PL #SPL #football
362: John Burridge, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Panini Football 84
Today Richard Allinson takes a look at one of his footballing heroes who is one of a long line of shot stoppers who well and truly demonstra...
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December 3, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Our new post from Manny Hawks takes a look at the tragic passing of Marc-Vivien Foe.

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A quality footballer and great human being.

#Lens #Lyon #Ligue1 #WHUFC #MCFC #PL #Cameroon #AFCON #WorldCup #football
502: Marc Vivien-Foe, West Ham United, Merlin’s F.A. Premier League 2000, Millennium Edition Sticker Collection
At the end of the 2019/20 season Jude Bellingham left his boyhood club Birmingham City to join German giants Borussia Dortmund. He first joi...
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December 3, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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#ICYMI: A last push for Mat Jolin-Beech's look at Declan Rice.

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Come for all your favourite current stars. Stay for an old man yelling at a cloud.

#WHUFC #AFC #Hammers #Gunners #PL #PremierLeague #football
20: Declan Rice, England, M&S Eat Well Play Well, Official England Sticker Collection
In this post Mat Jolin-Beech takes a brave step for any nostalgia based football blogger and points out that modern football is rubbish comp...
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December 2, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Happy Birthday to David Batty - hope he's having a good one!

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Rich Allinson on a reluctant superstar.

#LUFC #BRFC #NUFC #EFL #PL #England #ThreeLions #Euros #WorldCup #football
197: David Batty, Leeds United, Merlin’s F.A. Premier League 2000, Millennium Edition Sticker Collection
Today Rich Allinson guides us through the career of a man whose actions in the France 98 World Cup have been remembered by football fans aro...
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December 2, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Happy Birthday to Ben Thatcher - hope he has a good one!

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Emlyn Shepherdson-Jones on a master of shithousery.

#MillwallFC #AFCW #THFC #LCFC #MCFC #CAFC #ITFC #EFL #PL #Wales #Cymru #football
527: Ben Thatcher, Wimbledon, Merlin’s Premier League 99 Official Sticker Collection
This week Emlyn Jones brings us a look at a former Welsh international who made good use of the skills he picked up in his formative years a...
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November 30, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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Happy Birthday to Abel Xavier - hope he has a good one!

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Manny Hawks on standing out from the crowd.

#EstreladaAmadora #Benfica #RealOviedo #PSV #EvertonFC #LiverpoolFC #Hannover96 #ASRoma #Boro #LAGalaxy #Portugal #football
152: Abel Xavier, Everton, Merlin’s F.A. Premier League 2001 Official Sticker Collection
You might have noticed from some of our earlier posts that all of us here at A Sticker’s Worth 500 Words have a soft spot for a player with ...
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November 30, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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Happy Birthday to Ritchie Humphreys - hope he has a good one!

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Rich Allinson on the future of English football circa 1997.

#SWFC #CUFC #HUFC #ChesterfieldFC #PL #EFL #football
402: Ritchie Humphreys, Sheffield Wednesday, Merlin’s Premier League 97 Official Sticker Collection
Richard Allinson brings us another tale from the Steel City today, albeit one that spent more time in Hartlepool, as well as some speculati...
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November 30, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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Happy Birthday to Phil Babb - hope he has a good one!

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Manny Hawks on journalistic ambition and crushed nuts.

#BCAFC #PUSB #LFC #TRFC #SportingCP #SAFC #EFL #PL #PrimeiraLiga #Ireland #WorldCup #football
12: Phil Babb, Liverpool, Panini Football Sticker Album, The Official PFA Collection, A-Z of ALL the Top Players from All the Top Teams in ‘97
In terms of sponsorship, the 1990s was a simpler time. There was not a sleeve sponsor or official grooming product in sight. The...
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November 30, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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Happy Birthday to Pierre van Hooijdonk - hope he's having a good one!

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Mat Jolin-Beech on industrial action and continental flair.

#Roosendaal #NACBreda #Vitesse #Feyenoord #Eredivisie #CelticFC #SPL #NFFC #PL #Benfica #Fenerbahce #football
142: Pierre van Hooijdonk, Nottingham Forest, Merlin’s Premier League Kick Off Sticker Collection, 1998
Today Mat Jolin-Beech takes a look at a man who scored 375 goals in a career which took in some of the biggest clubs in Europe. Transfer win...
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November 29, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Happy Birthday to Tomas Brolin - hope he's having a good one!

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Manny Hawks on a much maligned midfield maestro.

#Nasvikens #Sundsvall #Norrkoping #Allsvenskan #Parma #SerieA #LUFC #CPFC #PL #Sweden #Sverige #Euros #WorldCup #football
157: Tomas Brolin, Sverige, USA ’94 World Cup, UK and Eire Edition
If you were a lower to mid-table Premiership club in the 1990s it was almost rude not to sign at least one experienced internati...
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November 29, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Happy Birthday to Stuart Taylor - hope he's had a good one!

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Emlyn Shepherdson-Jones' choice for our tribute to substitute keepers. 95 games in 21 years.

#Arsenal #BRFC #CPFC #PUFC #LCFC #AVFC #CCFC #MCFC #ReadingFC #LUFC #SaintsFC #football
305: Pegguy Arphexad, Liverpool, The Official F.A. Premier League Sticker Collection 2003, 10th Edition, 33: Stuart Taylor, Aston Villa, Merlin’s F.A. Premier League Official Sticker Collection 2006/0...
Welcome to our 300th post! Thank you for sticking with us (and our awful puns ) over the last couple of years and for all the requests , kin...
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November 28, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Today marks 14 years since the tragic passing of Gary Speed.

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A fantastic footballer, talented manager and all round good bloke. A huge loss still sorely felt.

#Cymru #Wales #LUFC #EFC #NUFC #BWFC #SUFC #EFL #PL #football
172: Gary Speed, Everton, Merlin’s Premier League 97 Official Sticker Collection
Mat Jolin-Beech at the helm for today’s post. There’s not much more to add to that other than it’s important that we all take the time to lo...
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November 27, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Happy Birthday to Freddie Sears - hope he's had a good one!

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Manny Hawks on ghost goals and miscarriages of justice.

#WHUFC #CPFC #CUFC #ITFC #DRFC #EFL #PL #football
322: Freddie Sears, West Ham United, Topps Match Attax Trading Card Game, Barclays Premier League 2010/11 Collector Binder
Ashton Gate. August 2009. A long ball is punted forward (this is the Championship after all). Alassane N’Diaye rises above his marker and f...
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November 27, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Apparently turned out alright.

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November 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Happy Birthday to Tommy Boyd - hope he has a good one!

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Manny Hawks on the Tartan Army's last foray to a World Cup.

#Scotland #TartanArmy #WorldCup #MotherwellFC #CelticFC #SPL #ChelseaFC #football
35: Tommy Boyd, Scotland, Panini World Cup France 98
Two weeks from today the Scottish men’s national football team will line up to face the Czech Republic in their first tournament finals game...
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November 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Local hero.

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November 20, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Congratulations to #Scotland for making their first World Cup finals since 1998.

Just don't come home too soon lads...

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#TartanArmy #WorldCup #football
35: Tommy Boyd, Scotland, Panini World Cup France 98
Two weeks from today the Scottish men’s national football team will line up to face the Czech Republic in their first tournament finals game...
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November 18, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Happy Birthday to Nani - hope he's having a good one!

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Mat Jolin-Beech on a mercurial talent.

#MUFC #SportingCP #Fenerbahce #Valencia #OrlandoCity #Venezia #MelbourneVictory #PL #LaLiga #MLS #ALeague #SerieA #Portugal #Euros #WorldCup #football
119: Nani, Portugal, FIFA World Cup Russia 2018, Panini Official Licensed Sticker Album
Mat Jolin-Beech takes a look at a player equally capable of brilliance and brain fade with little indication of which you’ll be getting on a...
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November 17, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Our new post from Mat Jolin-Beech (sort of, a little bit) on Declan Rice.

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Alternatively an old man yells at a cloud and gets all nostalgic.

#WHUFC #AFC #Arsenal #PremierLeague #PL #90s #football
20: Declan Rice, England, M&S Eat Well Play Well, Official England Sticker Collection
In this post Mat Jolin-Beech takes a brave step for any nostalgia based football blogger and points out that modern football is rubbish comp...
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November 17, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Happy Birthday to Mustapha Hadji - hope he has a good one!

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Mat Jolin-Beech on a Morrocan maestro who lit up the Midlands.

#PUSB #AVFC #PL #Nancy #SportingCP #DeportivoLaCoruna #Espanyol #Ligue1 #LaLiga #Morocco #WorldCup #AFCON #football
132: Moustapha Hadji, Coventry City, Merlin’s F.A. Premier League 2000, Millennium Edition Sticker Collection
Today Mat Jolin-Beech covers a player who ticks so many boxes for a blog post that I won’t even list them all in this brief introduction. Es...
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November 16, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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Happy Birthday to Steve Bould - hope he's having a good one!

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Manny Hawks on one man, several motorway dinners and Arsenal's back four.

#Arsenal #AFC #Gunners #EFL #PL #FACup #SCFC #SAFC #football
11: Steve Bould, Arsenal, Merlin’s Premier League 97 Official Sticker Collection
Footballing autobiographies tend to go one of two ways. The first, and the far more common, tend to be bland, ghost-written affairs charting...
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November 16, 2025 at 7:21 AM