Got, Not Got: Bet it's a while since you saw one of these Mobil football badge freebies...
We love these silk badges given away with Mobil petrol in the early 80s.
When was the last time you visited a petrol station to be gifted a football collectable that you thought was worth holding on to for 30 years, fer chrissakes?
Made of pure 100% silk from a silkworm's bottom and, as such, suitable for stitching on to your Sunday best anorak or parka?
Free with four gallons of 4-star.
If anyone has a full set on the accompanying wallchart map they could lend us for GNG2 we will definitely, definitely give it back.
Promise.
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There's loads more memorabilia and mudbaths, comic-book heroes and carpet-level games in 'GOT, NOT GOT: The A-Z of Lost Football Culture, Treasures & Pleasures', by Mirror Football bloggers Derek Hammond and Gary Silke. Check out the press and punter feedback on Amazon, where it's reduced by 40% to just 12 quid.
• “A veritable Dundee cake of a book” – Danny Kelly, talkSport
• “The real magic is the collection and display of the illustrative material of stickers, badges, programme covers, Subbuteo figures and other ephemera. It is astonishingly thorough, well-presented, inspired and indeed had me going, ‘yes, got, got, not got, forgot, never seen’ – When Saturday Comes
• “A book exploring the lost culture of the game when pitches were mudbaths, managers wore sheepskin coats and players were too embarrassed to dive – a bygone age that seems a far cry from the profit-driven game today played in the main by overpaid primadonnas.” – Paul Suart, Birmingham Evening Mail
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