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Ask those of a certain age to come up with a favourite album from1980 and there is a good chance that David Bowie’s Scary Monsters, Back in Black by AC/DC, or Madness’ Absolutely will be mentioned. Yet for those with an interest in football stickers, the answer would be quite different: Panini’s Europa 80, the European Championship’s first-ever sticker album.

The Modena-based collectables brand had been operating for 20 years previously, starting with releases entirely made up of cards in the early 1960s, before moving onto self-adhesive stickers around a decade later. Three World Cups and countless domestic albums around Europe had already been published, and the expansion of the