World Cup stickers: Hong Kong’s hard core Panini album collectors

Carrying a cardboard box full of hundreds of spare Panini World Cup 2018 stickers, I strode purposefully towards a group of 30 or so people hunkered down in a corner of the canteen at City University in Kowloon Tong.

Here sat Hong Kong’s most hard core Panini sticker collectors, some of whom have been meeting since the 2006 World Cup to swap, buy and sell stickers so they can all fill up their albums.