As the daily newspapers jumped on the sticker collection craze, the Daily Mirror’s “Stick With Soccer” album for the 1986-1987 season was a much more straightforward effort compared to more established publishers.
Boasting a total of “286 colour photograph stickers of players from the 22 First Division clubs” made up this collection . There were club details, “interesting club facts” and a biography of each player.
Each team had 13 player stickers and that was all. Unfortunately, the photos were not of the highest quality. Accuracy in verifying the photos didn’t seem to be a top priority to the extent that the photo of Pat van den Hauwe playing for Everton then, was actually one of Graeme Sharp (and it wasn’t a question of a sticker being put in the wrong place as the sticker number matched with that on the page and the space for Graeme Sharp actually matched a sticker with a photo of Graeme Sharp !).
These are what the THFC pages looked like in the “Stick With Soccer – Season 1986-1987” album …
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| THFC Page 1 | THFC Page 2 |
For a larger image of the team pages click here.
The Spurs player stickers included in the album were …
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| Ray Clemence | Mitchell Thomas | Gary Stevens |
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| Gary Mabbutt | Richard Gough | Steve Hodge |
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| Paul Allen | Glenn Hoddle | Chris Waddle |
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| Nico Claesen | Ossie Ardiles | Tony Galvin |
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| Clive Allen |
There were stickers of 22 players who had an association with Spurs during their career …
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| John Barnes (Watford) | Dave Beasant (Wimbledon) | Kevin Bond (Southampton) |
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| Paul Bracewell (Everton) | Ian Crook (Norwich City) | Ian Culverhouse (Norwich City) |
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| Kenny Dalglish (Liverpool) | Kerry Dixon (Chelsea) | Chris Fairclough (Nottingham Forest) |
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| Mark Falco (Watford) | Terry Fenwick (Queens Park Rangers) | Paul Gascoigne (Newcastle United) |
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| Micky Hazard (Chelsea) | Colin Lee (Chelsea) | Neil McNab (Manchester City) |
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| Johnny Metgod (Nottingham Forest) | Steve Sedgley (Coventry City) | Pat van den Hauwe (Everton) |
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| Steve Walford (West Ham United) | Des Walker (Nottingham Forest) | Paul Walsh (Liverpool) |
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| Clive Wilson (Manchester City) |