Once the internet arrived they stopped getting caps. Now they just get an email with an attachment :- when they print out the attachment it has lots of dotted lines on it.
They just have to carefully fold along the dotted lines... and lo and behold, a little paper cap appears before the footballers eyes.
They can make them any colour they want just by changing the paper in the printer.
If any one individual should receive a great number of these caps, they are more spacesaving than their earlier counterparts and can be stored in an old shoe box rather than taking up space in a binbag in their mothers attic.
The new paper cap saves on postage, and is kinder to the environment.
Now known as the eco cap.!