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Football Cards 1965/66 - 1979/80
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Nigel's Webspace - Galleries of English
Football Cards 1965/66 - 1979/80
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| Season 1968/69. The quality keeps on coming. A&BC and FKS produced their best sets ever. In my view this is the pinnacle year for football cards in the 1965/66 to 1979/80 period. |
| A&BC Gum | |
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Footballers
- Yellow backs. My own all-time favourite set of football cards. A
neat, classy set with a Football Quiz and Magic Answer on the back.
Series 1 comprises cards 1 to 54 (Checklist is card 1), and Series 2
comprises cards 55 to 101 (Checklist card 55). Cards in the set have a football printed to the left of the team name (see picture), with the exception of cards 2, 12, 19, 25, 32, 40, 44, 47, 48, 63, 65, 77, 78, 79, 82, 83, 86, 87, 88, 89, 91, 92, 93, 95, 96, 100, 101 which do not. Card 71, Joe Baker, appears to be the only card for which you can find both a football and a non-football version.
Set size: 101. Checklists: Series 1 (1-54), Series 2 (55-101), Team checklist. |
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Pennants.
Team pennants folded in the yellow back card packets, hence the
folds whenever you see these attractive pennants. The pennants have
instructions to 'Cut out Pennant along black line' but thankfully not
too many boys seem to have done this. They were issued with Series 1 of
the Yellow Backs in 1968. Set size: 26. Click for set gallery. Checklists: Set checklist. |
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Emblems.
These shiny cards don't scan too well. They were issued with Series 2 of
the Yellow Backs in 1968. Set size: 20. Checklists: Set checklist. |
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| FKS Publishers | |
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The
Wonderful World of Soccer Stars. This first of the more commonly
available FKS sets, and a great favourite. The stickers are readily identifiable
through the backs which have the player name, club and biography.
Set size: 330. |
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| Longacre Press | |
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Charles
Buchan's Football Monthly World Stars. Charles Buchan's Football Monthly
ran for just under 23 years in 3 different incarnations, finally ceasing
in June 1974. For more information see
www.charlesbuchansfootballmonthly.com. The World Stars comprises a Souvenir Album with spaces for 80 small black and white stickers. Set size: 80. Click for Set checklist or Team checklist. |
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| Famous
Footballers Mini-books. A series
of 6 small booklets, costing one shilling each, with colour photographs inside. A gallery is available for all photos from each of the mini-books. Click for the mini-books gallery. |
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| D.C. Thomson | |
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Bernard Briggs' Album of Football '68.
Bernard (Bouncing) Briggs appeared in the Hornet, Hotspur and Wizard
comics. He was a powerful young fellow who earned his living as a
General Dealer. He had a yard of his own in Slagton, and rode a motor
bike with a sidecar made from an old bathtub. He was a keen amateur
sportsman taking up various sports including: Baseball, Boxing,
Football, Ice Hockey, Rugby League, Tennis and Wrestling. Bernard
excelled at all the sports he tried (from
www.britishcomics.20m.com). The album was presented with the Hornet. The stickers inside appear to have been cut from a colour sheet. |
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Stand up footballers.
In the period from 1968 to 1971 D.C. Thomson issued a number of
different stand-up footballers in the Hotspur and Victor comics. The
footballers came in sheets, complete with their name on a separate base. A number of sizes were produced, including 100, 90 and 80mm tall. The full sheets with the footballers still intact are very rare. The individual footballers are sought by collectors, preferably with their accompanying bases. The sheet displayed at right is from the Hotspur, and is named 'Stoppers' since it includes goalkeepers and defenders. |
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