Panini’s sticker collection for the 1986-1987 season followed their traditional naming pattern and was called ” Panini’s Football 87″.
There was a double page spread of photos and stickers celebrating Liverpool’s 1985-1986 “Double”, two pages dedicated to photos and stickers of action from the world Cup in Mexico in the previous summer and a two-page centre-spread of cartoons entitled “Soccer Crazy – Spot the soccer crazy antics in this wacky cartoon of football fun” with all nature of unusual things that were going on at a football match.
The album is “compiled with the o-operation and approval of the Professional Footballers Association and the Scottish Professional Footballers Association”, so the opening page has stickers of both association’s Players of the Year, Young Players of the Year and the PFA Manager of the Year.
Two other features contained within the collection were “Brits Abroad” focusing on the players and managers who were plying their trade overseas in Europe and two pages showing kits from the past and the current day titled “Then And Now”, with a sticker for each of the clubs in the English and Scottish top flights.
Each Division One club had two pages that had space for stickers of the manager and 13 players, a shiny club crest and a squad photo. The pages included details of the club and their honours and there were also three players/managers chosen from the club’s history featured in a side panel, with Tottenham’s being Bert Sproston, Bill Nicholson and Jimmy Greaves.
Scottish clubs were restricted to half-size stickers of manager, 13 players, the shiny club badge and a team photo and club details. There were four pages dedicated to the English Second Division, with each club having a team photo and a half-size club crest sticker with club details and honours listed.
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| The THFC pages in the Panini Football 87 collection looked like this … | ||
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| For a larger image of the team pages click here. | ||
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| The Spurs pages had the following stickers of players … | ||
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| Ray Clemence | Mitchell Thomas | 330 Richard Gough |
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| Gary Stevens | Graham Roberts | Gary Mabbutt |
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| 332 Paul Miller | Paul Allen | Tony Galvin |
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| 341 Chris Waddle | 335 Glenn Hoddle | 342 Mark Falco |
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| Clive Allen | David Pleat | |
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| The Club Crest and Squad photo stickers featured in the THFC pages… | ||
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In the centre pages there was a two-page spread of photos from the Mexico 1986 World Cup finals including this one of Diego Maradona lifting the trophy after they beat Argentina in the final. |
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| Another feature focused on Brits Abroad, with these Tottenham personnel given a sticker each … |
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| 446 Terry Venables Manager – Barcelona | ||||
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| A “Then And Now” featured pictured teams kits from the past and the present. Here is the Spurs sticker with text from the album.
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Other Spurs related players who were either players/coaches/managers at Tottenham at some stage of their careers included in the album were …
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| Dave Beasant (Wimbledon) | Kevin Bond (Southampton) | Paul Bracewell (Everton) |
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| 261 Alan Brazil (Queens Park Rangers) | 210 Garry Brooke (Norwich City) | Ian Crook (Norwich City) |
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| Ian Culverhouse (Norwich City) | Kenny Dalglish (Liverpool) | Kerry Dixon (Chelsea) |
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| Gordon Durie (Chelsea) | Terry Fenwick (Queens Park Rangers) | Paul Gascoigne (Newcastle United) |
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| Nigel Gibbs (Watford) | Terry Gibson (Manchester United) | Richard Gough (Dundee United) |
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| George Graham (Arsenal) | Steve Hodge (Aston Villa) | Kenny Jackett (Watford) |
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| Gary Lineker (Everton) | Neil McNab (Manchester City) | 222 Johnny Metgod (Nottingham Forest) |
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| Steve Perryman (Oxford United) | 152 Perry Suckling (Manchester City) | Pat van den Hauwe (Everton) |
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| Des Walker (Nottingham Forest) | Paul Walsh (Liverpool) | Clive Wilson (Manchester City) |