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Season 1966/67. Another quiet year for football cards, perhaps with the World Cup impact not fully felt? The A&BC Footballer photos are the highlight of the season, showing some names and faces which were to become very familiar in the following years. FKS produced their World Cup Stars album which featured player photos, but not yet stickers. I'm not sure how this was meant to be a test for whether boys would like the stickers.
A&BC Gum
Footballers. A set of 220 black and white cards in two series (1-110 and 111-220) issued in pairs, but most often seen as singles. The 2nd series differs in that the player name is printed on the front of the card.

There are 8 checklist cards for the 1st series, all being parts of a picture of the 1966 England World Cup Winning Team. The 8 checklists from the 2nd series form a picture of the runners-up - West Germany.

The sets must have been produced in September 1966, since they include details of transfers which occurred early in the 1966/67 season e.g. Card 95 Colin Dobson but not October transfers e.g. Card 177 Dominic Sharkey.

Checklists: Series 1 (1-110), Series 2 (111-220), Team checklist.
World Cup Stamps. 50 stamps sold by A&BC. These are very, very rare. Given the smooth and serrated edges they obviously came from sheets once upon a time.

Some stamps depict players (vertical), while others depict players and their teams (horizontal).

Many thanks to one particular website visitor who contributed most of these images.

Set size: 50. Click for set gallery.

Checklists: Set checklist or Team checklist.

    
Barratt & Co.
Famous Footballers (Series A.14). Another series of 50 attractively coloured sweet cigarette cards, issued by Barratt & Co Ltd, London. Cards printed in England.

Set size: 50.
FKS Publishers
A Full Colour Picture Gallery of World Cup Stars. An album of colour pictures, not stickers, which is not marked as FKS but which is clearly the precursor to the FKS sticker sets.

The image on the front of the album is the same as used for the 1974 and 1978 World Cup albums (see album gallery).The album was printed in Spain, but published in England by World Distributors of Manchester.

Set size: 256. Teams: Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, England, France, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, North Korea, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Uruguay, West Germany. Album: Price 2s 6d.
Sugosa
Famous Footballers. A small set of 12 cards only, and now very rare. From the size and shape it is reasonable to suggest that it was part of a packet of sweet cigarettes?
D.C. Thomson
The Hornet Gallery of Sport. These two giant posters were given away with the Hornet comic. They both fold out to large posters with many coloured images of teams and players.

No. 1 includes Gordon Banks, Denis Law, England's World Cup Squad, Hull City F.C., Glasgow Rangers F.C., Jim Clark (Motor Racing), Frank McLintock, West Ham's World Cup Trio, D. Temple, R.Wilson, A.Ball, Len Killeen (Rugby), Cassius Clay (Boxing), Manchester City F.C. and Southampton.

No. 2 includes Jim Baxter, Johnny Crossan, Sheffield Wednesday F.C., Celtic F.C., Everton F.C., Chelsea F.C., Leeds United F.C., J. Cruickshank, C. Shevland, D. Holt, Gary Sobers (Cricket), Walter McGowan (Boxing), George Eastham, Mike England, John Surtees (Motor Racing), George Best, Willie Henderson.

Set size: 2

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