Rubik’s Cubes, playing football (with balls made up, at times, of elastic bands) and stickers. Of those, the latter took priority when the new Panini album was released in mid-January.

All the kids in my year at school were totally obsessed with collecting Mexico ‘86 football stickers ... weight of your sticker collection wrapped in an elastic band like a wad of cash at ...

and as well as football stickers also print ranges featuring cartoon characters such as Peppa Pig and bands including One Direction. In the 2013/14 season Topps, which has owned the rights to ...