Mettoy Wembley Trophy orange football

Up on the roof

There is no more iconic reminder of my childhood than this ball and yet it seems to be completely forgotten about with no photos and very little information available on it. There must be hundreds hidden up on old school flat roofs and gutters!

Hot plastic knife repairs

Do you remember that textured orange surface and the way the black lines were indented into the plastic. The hard valve ring and of course the repairs made with a hot knife.

What about that strange square shaped box that folded up in triangles to hold the ball iconically in the centre?

Let's reinflate it

Can you help do you have any photos of you with this legendary ball - maybe you have one at the back of the shed, tired and deflated?