Our first clue card brought us footballer Kurt Zouma, but not just because he is smiling. The real reason he is here is that has a middle name, and it is "Happy", not because he was always a happy child, but because in Africa, where his parents are from, there is a rather wonderful tradition of giving children a middle name with a positive message.
This set is generally sold and catalogued as being by Merlin, but it was actually produced by Topps, which is clear from the reverse of the sticker, where it cites the website www.toppsfootball.com and also has the Topps logo in the bottom right hand corner. The packaging also has the Topps logo at the very bottom in the pink semi circle, as well as the back, which says, top right "Published by Topps Europe Ltd." and gives an address in Milton Keynes.
That packet also tells us that there were five stickers in each packet, so you can work out from there that it is quite a task to collect all three hundred and twenty-five cards, without a box load of duplication. When I saw the packets, I believed there to be an additional complication, for, though not mentioned anywhere on the actual stickers, the packet tells you that "Foil stickers are inserted 1 in every 2 packets". However these are not a separate, parallel set, they are the first two stickers in the set, which show a crowned lion`s head and the title of the set, and an outline drawing of the Premier League trophy - as well as the club badges for each page.