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What is ?

These are not something you eat at an Italian soccer game. Panini is the brand name of an Italian firm that produces collectable stickers. The company is based in Modena and named after the Panini brothers, who founded it in 1961. It became famous in the 1960s for its soccer collections, which can now sometimes reach very high prices on the collectors’ market. The slogan “Stick with Panini” could once be heard in a jingle following the television advertisements that Panini aired during children’s programming.

What are ultras?

Ultras are a sanctioned form of team supporters renowned for their fanatical and elaborate displays. They are predominantly European and South American followers of soccer teams. Ultras frequently display their support through choreographed performances called tifos and also through “terrace chants,” which are sung en masse, often to well-known tunes, but with the words changed.

Top Ten Soccer Books

• Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby

• Among the Thugs by Bill Buford