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Sticky business: Strangest Palace stickers revealed...

Last season, the Crystal Palace programme delved into the history (sticker)books to pluck out some of the strangest and most eye-catching of football stickers with a Palace star featured. Below, we've selected the top 10.

Phil Hordley - FKS Wonderful World of Soccer 1971

Football in the 1970s was a completely different time. Kids would be encouraged to glue the stickers into the album themselves, and smoking was prevalent in changing rooms across the land. This blasé attitude to tobacco saw centre-back Phil Hoardley captured with a sly cigarette in his hand as posed for this particular picture, probably not knowing it would later be used in a sticker collection.