Marco Van Basten and The Iron Curtain

by Benjamin Mhaoir

OVER 8 MILLION SOLD
Nobody has ever forgotten what happened in our little town in the summer of 1988.
8 TEAMS
88 PLAYERS
88 STICKERS
Collect all 88 and win a trip to the Euro 88 Final
Stickers 88p each or 10 for 8 pounds
1 free sticker with every 8 pints drank
Sticker books are free
BOGOF on Sundays.
Terms and Conditions apply Nobody talks about World cups or European championships or any football tournament after it's ended unless of course you win or it was stolen from you. England still talk about 1966, the Danes talk about 1992 and the greeks talk about 2004.England still talk about World Cup '86 and how they lost out to "The Hand of God".For years after the dust has settled and the memories have almost faded, people still talk about their wins or how they should have won.The Dutch still talk about Euro '88 and like the Dutch in this small corner of the World on the west coast of Ireland we still talk about it too. Not the Ireland England game but the final. The final between Holland and The Soviet Union. We still talk about Willy Kelly and his competition! His sticker book competition. The first person to collect all 88 players in their sticker book wins a trip to the Euro 88 final. Stickers were 88p each and the search for stickers caused a frenzy all up and down the west coast of Ireland. But in typical Irish fashion, not all is as it seems.Nobody has ever forgotten what happened in our little town in the summer of 1988.Chapter One: Willy Wonka andThe Sticker Book
Chapter Two: Paolo Maldini andThe Virgin Mary
Chapter Three: Ireland and England
Chapter Four: Rocky Balboa andThe Soviet Union.
Chapter Five: Dopey Donegal Daniel andThe Deadly Dutch
Chapter Six: Willy Kelly andThe Hand of God
Chapter Seven: Marco Van Basten andThe Iron Curtain