By Chris Wright
In a break from the usual horror hair cavalcade of precision-cut mullets and nebulous sprawling perms, we thought we’d deviate slightly with this week’s Friday Football Sticker Flashback to have a misty-eyed, nostalgic look back at the beautifully retro “foil” national emblems that graced Panini’s Espana ’82 World Cup sticker album – all complete with that cheeky little Naranjito scamp (the coolest World Cup mascot, hands down, no contest your honour!) in the corner…
(That’s Hungary to you and I)
If we had to pick a favourite, it’d have to be the three lions. England’s crest hasn’t looked better since, though Spain’s old crest was a beauty too.
You?
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