World Cup: The hobby that stuck over the years

Mr Navin Nambiar holding on to the completed Argentina 1986 World Cup team sticker collection. ST PHOTO: SYAMIL SAPARI
Mr Navin Nambiar looking at his series of completed World Cup stickers. ST PHOTO: SYAMIL SAPARI
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SINGAPORE - Every four years, strange and arcane passions are ignited in grown men by the global football spectacle called the World Cup.

They cheer, jeer, weep, lose sleep... and collect stickers.

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