The thrill of finding a sliotar in the ditch behind the goals, the coolness of only wearing one mikasa glove, the hours spent decorating your hurley with various coloured insulation tape, the spotlessly-polished puma king boots with the big toe gone out of them, the bang that came out of your sportsbag..

You forgot the original FIFA for the megadrive. When you picked Brazil and hammered Qatar about 35-0.

World Cup 90 sticker album. Spent the whole summer collecting the stickers, came across it again a few years back.

Mikasa gloves were the greatest gloves ever made,the ball would stick to your hand,it was not so nice wearing them on a rainy day,the weight of them

The journal has become a memoir of my childhood

Duck hunt and reebok pump!

Great memories. Jonah Lomu Rugby. One of the greatest computer games ever made!

This is like something from ‘This is your life’. Quality stuff…

Premier League stickers were banned from my school.. hahaha Also randomly met Phil Babb and Jason McAteer outside my local pub (in Hartstown, D15), they were signing autographs.. I’m still unsure why but was happy for the photo with them!

If getting beat in Sensible Soccer and in desperate need of a goal just get the ball out to the wing bout anywer from 40 yards out and straight into the far corner evrytime! Deadly!

Not a soccer fan but fair play to Ryan Giggs he was the poster boy on the 94 soccer book thing :-) still relevant in 2013 nearly 20 years later

Have it,have it,have it,have it,have it…I’ll swap ya 10 stickers for the glittery premiership trophy sticker… Those were the days!! Big Jack Charlton signed his page on my 94 World Cup sticker book…still have it at home!

The Orbis Italia 90 sticker collection, part sticker book, part education on the history if the game. Great stuff.

ha ha ha i remember all of them, great article !

Leaderboard commodor 64.

I’m feeling old now. What about Raleigh Chopper and Triumph 20 bikes! Now that’s showing age :))

absolutely nailed it for me

I remember those Derby football’s. You could get them in every newsagents in yellow or white. We went through one a week at our school (damm whitethorn bush behind the goals). Great memories.

Premier league stickers were the gate way drug

nostalgia pieces like this tend to be terribly contrived but this is absolutely spot on.

I even had the exact Top Trumps pack shown in the picture.

Don’t forget the “Champion Cup” football!! The curl you could get on them bad boys was physics defying.

Tomy supercup !! Like subutteo on speed

Remember the coin collection from Italian 90. They all went into this black cardboard frame, each representing a country. Sigh, I loved that thing and wish I had it now…

Camping out the back garden with friends – thinkin ye were 100 miles away lol

Boots, eh?
What ever happened to them things?!?

Love it that Giggs is the first player on the front of the ’94 sticker album and every other player is retired now. (And yes I include Beckham and Owen in this)

God I’m old. Thanks

Shouldn’t that be from men’s childhood.

Bobble bobble arcade game double play that was a game from the past loads of 10p coins on top of the machine hoping to finish the 100 levels, but fair play on the list above was a sticker addict back in the day as well!!

Book called The ’80s Kid – a retro take on growing up in ’80s and early ’90s Ireland sums up and includes all of the above and much more!

Used to love Top Trumps! Dinosaurs, Gunfighters and Horror. Fear factor 96 for man eating plant.

remember simpson cards and dinosaurs mag.

No Pokemon or beanie babies… Arguably the biggest irrational ‘collectables’ of the 90′s?