Only Good Stickers: Merlin's Premier League 2004

mercoledì 19 agosto 2020

Merlin's Premier League 2004

F.A. Premier League 2004 is the 11th Premier league sticker collection published by Merlin since the first edition in 1994. It is another aurograph edition, in which all the player stickers are signed, as for the previous two editions (2002 and 2003). The album starts with the contents and an introduction including two large size shiny stickers: the F.A. Premier League logo and trophy. Then, the 20 competing clubs are shown in alphabetical order with a total of 28 stickers displaced over six pages. In the first two pages the club is presented with the shiny sticker of the badge and three large size stickers: the team photo, the key player (shiny) and the star striker (shiny). In the other four pages, 24 players of the squad are presented with a portrait sticker and career details of each player.

Arsenal were the champions at the end of the season 2003/2004 with 90 points, well ahead of Chelsea (79 points) and Manchester United (75 points). They could count on 30 goals of the league top scorer Thierry Henry.

In the center of the album there are two special sections. "The Kits" includes the home uniform stickers of the 20 competing clubs. There are in total 10 shiny stickers in this section (one kit is half sticker). "2002/03 Premiership Top Ten" includes six shiny stickers of players with the best records in the previous season: Van Nistelrooy, Mellberg, Henry, Beattie, Friedel, and Shearer.