GREG LANSDOWNE examines our love for sticker albums – and explains why he can’t forget the St Mirren badge...

YOU never forget your first time. And so it is that Panini’s Football 79 – the album upon which I popped my sticker cherry – is indelibly inked on my memory.
Irrespective of in which order that album had come in my collecting life, it IS the greatest of them all – certainly as far as UK domestic albums go.
For my evidence I start and end with the badges. They could not be called ‘foils’ – as became the common term through t...