The Panini sticker collection for the 1990-1991 season following the 1990 World Cup finals in Italy was “Football 1991”.
There were a total of 561 stickers in this collection by Panini. Being a World Cup year, there was a page with a 9 sticker montage of the tournament’s top scorer Toto Schillaci, although you had to guess the name of the player in a competition to win tickets to the League Cup final.
Clubs in the English and Scottish top divisions had two pages each with space for stickers for a large shiny club badge, a team photo, 14 player stickers, one of the manager and two blank spaces to put stickers of players transferred to the club in question.
The album also included a 24 sticker Italia ’90 poster to complete with “Pictures that have never been seen before”.
When taking your album to a match, autographs strips had been printed that could be cut out and stuck next to the sticker of the player in the Panini album.
There was also a funny photo sticker for each of 10 months that comprised a caption competition, with the monthly winner receiving 120 stickers.
These are the THFC pages in the Panini Football 1991 album …
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| THFC Page 1 | THFC Page 2 |
For a larger image of the team pages click here.
The Spurs pages had the following stickers of players that we collected, although we didn’t complete the album …
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| Erik Thorstvedt | Gudni Bergsson | Terry Fenwick |
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| Gary Mabbutt | Steve Sedgley | Pat van den Hauwe |
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| Paul Allen | Paul Gascoigne | David Howells |
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| Paul Walsh | Gary Lineker | Paul Stewart |
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| Terry Venables |
These were the Club Crest and Squad photo stickers for Spurs …
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| Each club page had a action photos formed of two stickers but we only got one half of the Spurs photo of a Gary Lineker headed goal against Coventry City.
Spurs did feature in the action photos on the Manchester United and Norwich City pages though, as well as the Nottingham Forest page, although, again, we only have one half of the photo. |
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The final section of the album featured a competition that had photos from 10 months of the year that were used for collectors to put a caption to.
Paul Gascoigne and Gary Lineker on England duty were in the sticker used for June.
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Other players who were associated with Spurs as players or coaches at Tottenham during their careers featured in the album were …
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| Clive Allen (Manchester City) | John Barnes (Liverpool) | Mark Bowen (Norwich City) |
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| Paul Bracewell (Sunderland) | Ian Crook (Norwich City) | Kenny Dalglish (Liverpool) |
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| Kerry Dixon (Chelsea) | Gordon Durie (Chelsea) | Mark Falco (Queens Park Rangers) |
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| Chris Fairclough (Leeds United) | Terry Gibson (Wimbledon) | Richard Gough (Glasgow Rangers) |
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| George Graham (Arsenal) | Andy Gray (Crystal Palace) | Steve Hodge (Nottingham Forest) |
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| Danny Maddix (Queens Park Rangers) | Alan Pardew (Crystal Palace) | Neil Ruddock (Southampton) |
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| John Scales (Wimbledon) | Tim Sherwood (Norwich City) | Clive Wilson (Queens Park Rangers) |
The players who were with Tottenham who were in this album but we didn’t have stickers for were Dave Beasant (Chelsea), Ian Culverhouse (Norwich City), Des Walker (Nottingham Forest), Andy Sinton (Queens Park Rangers) and Hans Segers (Wimbledon).