With EURO 2016 finally here, we take the opportunity to glance back through the years and visually reminisce about the beautiful tournaments gone by from an acute angle.
Every trinket has a tale, and this trip of nostalgia takes in merchandise from European Championships offering a time-capsule of beauty. Making up this collection, we have an array of treats. Panini stickers from different decades are the tip of the ice-berg as pin badges, Terry Venables immortalised in Corinthian figure form and those coins we used to collect from super markets and petrol stations add to a heart warming collection of treasures.
A sign of the times, we've included a ticket application form from EURO '96. Twenty years on and tech laden, this postal form is quite an entry. Something so preserved but hard to believe for a millenial generation.
Collectable stamps and special edition footballs, these symbols of a beautiful game each offer a memory and like those offerings will from EURO 2016, you've got to get involved. Time to put up the bunting and fill in the wall chart, summer just smashed down.
