A Sticker's Worth 500 Words

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...

In 2017 the country musician Brad Paisley released the album 'Love and War' featuring the track 'selfie #theinternetisforever'. The song is a cautionary tale of the historic tweets that have proven the downfall of politicians, English fast bowlers and several prospective employees. However vanilla your Internet activity may have been those lovely people at Meta do like to remind you of your 'memories' whenever you have a look at Facebook. I can only apologise to the contestants of the seventh series of X Factor and Garth Crooks for some of my misguided grumpiness back in 2010 and I should probably pre-emptively resign my future cabinet position on the off-chance Cher Lloyd becomes leader of the opposition. Occasionally this feature does unearth a more fascinating moment from the past. In September 2011 I was one of a mere five thousand people to witness Calvin Andrew score for Crystal Palace in a 2-1 League Cup win over Middlesbrough. While there is a precedent...