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The Best Football Cards to Collect in 2026 (For Beginners)
Why Football Fans Still Love FIFA Street in 2026
How Football Manager 2009 Changed the Game Forever
How to Grade Cards with PSA in 2026 (A Beginner’s Guide)
Why Are Lamine Yamal Cards So Expensive in 2026?
Saba Kharebashvili: The Next Real-Life FM 26 ‘Wonderkid’?
How to Spot Fake Football Shirts on Vinted
Are Blaster Boxes Worth Trying for Beginner Collectors?
Are Panini Stickers Still Worth Collecting in 2026?
Seydou Doumbia: The Unstoppable Striker of FIFA 15
What Really Happened to Federico Macheda
Craig Gordon on FM06: Hearts’ Broken Goalkeeper
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By the end of 2008, many believed Ronaldo Nazário’s career was over. Myself included. I was only 11 at the time, but…
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Wondering if the 2026 Monopoly World Cup Prizm FIFA World Cup box is worth buying? Discover what’s inside, the hit rate, and…
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As a self-confessed failed goalkeeper in my own time, I love a broken stopper. And when it comes to FM06, few come…
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As football games have become progressively more complicated these days, there’s clearly still a nostalgic love and desire to play FIFA Street.…
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I dread to think how many football cards I had in my earlier collection as a kid that have since been reduced…
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The art of an FM Wonderkid is to find someone in some faraway land with very little PR, unearth them and then…
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One of the areas that seem like a decent entry point into football cards is blaster boxes, so let’s look at it…
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I was an absolute fiend on FIFA 15 but always wanted to be ‘different’. That being said, even I had to relent…
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Newcomers, much like myself a few years ago, might think that PSA grading is enormously complicated and only for the ‘elites’ within…
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I’ve always had a soft spot for Emile Heskey and seeing him after his career has only increased that feeling. Especially when…
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