... this was chosen because, like our cards of the week, David Robert Joseph Beckham was "born in May" - on the 2nd of May, 1975.
You will find a bit more about "Merlin" with our Card of the Day for the 14th of March, 2022, which commemorates "Comic Relief".
As this is the first time, I think, that we have featured one of their football sets, it seems apt to note that their first Premier League Football Collection was for 1994, just two years after the League itself was founded, and the subsequent years` would become the best selling sticker collection right until 2008. However, in that year Merlin was rebranded as Topps. The stickers still had an almost cult following, but in 2020 Panini managed to win the contract for the Premier League.