Tag: Stuck on You
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Yackchat Podcast 02: Panini football stickers with Greg Lansdowne, author of ‘Stuck on You’
You may remember that last month, we cast a sideways glance at Greg Lansdowne’s newly-released Stuck On You: The Rise & Fall… (& Rise) of Panini Stickers. Well, my good friend the ‘mysterious’ Harry Yack (who may or may not actually be me) has been speaking to Mr Lansdowne himself about the book and football […]
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Book review: GOT or NEED? Stuck on You: The Rise & Fall… & Rise of Panini Stickers by Greg Lansdowne
As children, we had a tendency to cycle through fads. Our developing attention spans only stretched as far as a few months learning the ‘latest’ yo-yo tricks and how to successfully flip milk bottle caps… yeah, looking back, that was a bit of a strange one. Thus, our relationship with football stickers was fleeting – […]
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Porn stars and piracy: the cut-throat world of football stickers with author Greg Lansdowne
It’s amazing how those bits of sticky paper had a mesmeric effect on an eight year old kid. It must be part of the human condition to endeavour to finish things, hence the intense fascination with completing every sticker album you ever own. Of course, being the type that instead attached them to the teacher’s […]
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Stickin’ it to the fan: news from the world of football sticker art
After a particularly exhausting weekend, I believe it is time to relax for a moment with some news from the world of art, specifically of the football sticker variety. In August last year, I announced on the Progress With Unity Podcast that I would be helping visitors to the National Football Museum create a large […]