18: Robin van Persie, Arsenal, Topps Match Attax Trading Card Game, 2009/10
In the spirit of the season Mat Jolin-Beech brings us some festive fun via the medium of a prolific Dutch striker who scored some truly wonderful goals for club and country during his career. As with many of our posts this has absolutely nothing to do with the card in question and Mat has gone back to his roots and gone all chairman of selectors again . Hopefully this goes down better than your fourth cheeseboard of the weekend. It’s Christmas time, and ‘tis the season for some pun-derful blogging. So why should we here at a Sticker’s Worth 500 Words not jump on this festive bandwagon? A quick WhatsApp later and the puns came rolling in with Emlyn left with 718 unread messages of football related festive nonsense. Serves him right for having a social life. So here we go: a full squad and manager of Christmas crackers. (No, I won’t stop. And yes, I know this is as bad as all of the Dad jokes come 4pm and a few too many beers on the 25th.) The first and most obvious one was the big man h...