Nigel's Webspace - Galleries of English
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 1971/72. Yet another bumper year of cards and an increasing range of 'other stuff'. The Cleveland Petrol / Joe Mercer heads are a highlight. The Daily Mirror cards provide coverage of 92 teams, plus the option of sending away for 'My Club'. I'd love to see the numbers distributed for each team. Esso issued their football club badges, which every boy seemed to have hundreds of at the time. | |
| A&BC Gum | |
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Footballers
- Purple backs. Perhaps not one of A&BC's better designed sets. The
backs are stylish, but the fronts don't have the same appeal as in
previous years. Series 1 comprises cards 1 to 109 (checklist 57), Series
2 cards 110 to 219 (checklist 170) and Series 3 cards 220 to 290
(checklist 277). Set size: 290. Checklists: Series 1 (1-109), Series 2 (110-219), Series 3 (220-290), Team checklist. |
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Football
club crests. A set of strange looking stickers which were issued
with Series 2 of the Purple backs. They belonged in an album
which could be ordered from: A&BC Chewing Gum Ltd. Spilsby Road, Romford, Essex Set size: 23. Checklists: Set checklist. |
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Footballer
Superstars. Attractive stickers which were issued with Series 3 of
the Purple backs. These
stickers, like the crests, advertise the A&BC Footballer Album to stick
them in. Set size: 23. Checklists: Set checklist, Team checklist. |
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| Anglo Confectionery | |
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Football
Hints.
OK, so they are not technically football cards, but they are interesting
and collectable. A set of 12 'volumes', prepared with the co-operation
of the Football Association. The 12 volumes all have the same picture on
the front cover, but the colours and writing change for each book. Set size: 12. Checklists: Set checklist |
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| B.A.B. Products | |
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Football
Rosettes.
These self-adhesive stickers were available through newsagents. The
1971/72 set has brown backs, while the 1972/73 set has white backs. The
difference between the two sets is that Nottingham Forest and
Huddersfield (relegated teams from 1971/72) were dropped and Norwich
City and Birmingham City (promoted teams) added. Set size: 22. Click here for set image gallery. |
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Soccer Dip Football Shields.
Apparently you got these shields in packets of Soccer Dip, a small,
square packet of (I think) sherbet. The stickers have a brown
backing paper. Set size: 42. |
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| Barratt and Co. Ltd. | |
| Goldflake Famous
Sportsmen.
A set of 50 cigarette style cards issued by Barratt & Co Ltd, London,
England. A return to football-related cards by Barratt, but only 11
footballers amongst the 50 sportsman. The footballers are: Alan Ball, Gordon Banks, George Best, Billy Bremner, Wyn Davies, Emlyn Hughes, Brian Kidd, Billy McNeill, Alan Mullery, Bobby Moore and Pele. Set size: 50. |
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| Cadbury | |
| Hartley's Football Stars.
OK, so they are not football cards, but they are attractive and
collectable. The jam jar lids were produced for Cadbury Schweppes Foods Ltd., Bournville, Birmingham while the images on the lids were provided by Coffer, with an inscription on each lid saying © Coffer, London. The jam jar lids fit into a folder (pictured below) which names them as 'Hartleys Football Stars 1971-72'. So, Cadbury or Hartley's? Who knows? Billy Bremner and Bobby Charlton are missing from the ones displayed at right. Set size: 12. |
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| Cleveland Petrol | |
| Joe Mercer's
Great Britain Soccer Squad 1971.
Busts of top players available from Cleveland Petrol outlets. The
collection fitted into a black plastic display stand. View the set gallery to see all of the busts in this collection. Set size: 16. |
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| Daily Mirror | |
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Star Soccer Sides.
One card for every team. This popular set was to be stuck onto a large
wallchart with the title 'Bobby Moore's Gallery of Soccer Sides'. Click here to see a set gallery of the whole 100 cards. Set size: 100. Checklist : Set checklist |
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My Club.
The My Club cards were able to be ordered separately from the Mirror,
and then stuck onto your Bobby Moore wallchart. The idea was that you
collected the card for your favourite team to personalise your chart.
Obviously very few were ordered, and most of those stuck to the charts,
so it is rare to find them in unmarked condition. Since one was
available for each of the 96 teams (92 league teams plus the home
international teams) I'm guessing that perhaps some of the lower
division teams' cards would form the rarest recent football cards of
all. This website is proud to be able to display all of the cards in the galleries below. Since the cards are quite large, the teams are divided up for display into the Divisions they played in in the 1971/72 season.
Division 1 teams gallery
- Arsenal, Chelsea, Coventry City, Crystal Palace, Derby County,
Everton, Huddersfield Town, Ipswich Town, Leeds United, Leicester City,
Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Newcastle United,
Nottingham Forest, Sheffield United, Southampton, Stoke City, Tottenham
Hotspur, W.B.A., West Ham United. Wolverhampton Wanderers Set size: 96. Checklist : Set checklist |
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| Esso | |
| Football
club badges.
A set of foil badges which could be stuck onto a large collectors card. Set size: 76 |
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| FKS Publishers | |
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The
Wonderful World of Soccer Stars 1971/72 First Division. The one-off
trial with a small black-and-white head shot on the back of the sticker.
Jack Rollin continued as album editor, while the Professional Footballers
Association (PFA) approved the collection. A club badge sticker was
available for each team, and a place
for each in the album. Each packet contained one self adhesive team
badge sticker and seven player stickers.
Set size: 352. Checklists:
Set checklist,
Team checklist |
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| IPC Magazines | |
| Shoot's All Star
Line-Up. The Shoot magazine began in 1968, and has become an
institution for young football fans. In September 1971 they began a new
series of collectables by suggesting that readers cut out a four page
section and fold and trim the pages to form the first four (1-4) and the
last four (109-112) of a booklet. Each of the pages includes a photo of a player with an accompanying biography. There was also a space to attach an autograph for each player. The autographs were available separately from the Shoot magazines. Set size: 111 (numbered 2 to 112). |
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| My favourite soccer
stars (Red backs).
The blue backed cards from 1969/70 obviously proved successful, since IPC tried again 20
months later, albeit with a different set of comics. The comics were: Buster and Jet, Lion and Thunder, Scorcher and Score, Tiger, and Valiant and TV 21. The publication dates were: October 16, 23 and 30, and November 6, 1971. Set size: 160 (32 x 5). |
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| Lord Neilson | |
| 1st Division Football
League Club Badges.
These attractive badges are also available with the
Mister Softee and
Tonibell company names. Set size: 24. |
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| Lyons Maid | |
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International
Footballers.
Set size: 40. Click for Set checklist or Team checklist. |
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| Marshall Cavendish | |
| Book of Football, Top
Teams.
In 1971 Marshall Cavendish began the massive production of the Book of
Football, a Marshall Cavendish Encyclopedia, in 75 weekly parts. The
parts cost 23p each, or £13.30 for a
12-month subscription (52 issues including postage and packing). The
weekly parts could be stored in 5 binders (each holding 15 issues). For the first 20 of its 75 parts the Book of Football included sheets of 16 'colour star portraits' in the centre pages. An album 'Top Teams' was provided free with Part 2, or could be purchased later for 25p. The album has 364 sticker spaces but has 44 portraits already printed inside, so there were actually only 320 stickers to collect. They are available as sheets of 16 or individually. Set size: 320. |
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| Mister Softee | |
| 1st Division Football
League Club Badges.
These attractive badges are also available with the Lord Neilson and
Tonibell company names. Set size: 24. |
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| The Sun | |
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Soccerstamps.
Following on from the undoubted success of the Swap cards the Sun
followed up in 1971/72 with the ambitious Soccerstamps collection. The Soccerstamps were stamps, rather than cards, and came in a wide variety of sizes, shapes and colours. The tokens for Soccerstamps appeared in the Sun each day. The Sun only accepted tokens in lots of six, plus 5p, to get you 12 Soccerstamps by return post. The stamps were to be mounted in the spaces for them in the 164-page Football Encyclopaedia and Soccerstamp Album (available from newsagents for 10p). The album suggests that you stick them in with stamp hinges. Collectors of these stamps therefore distinguish between those which were (a) never stuck into an album, (b) stuck in with stamp hinges or (c) stuck in as stamps. The Sun claimed at the time that over 60 million Soccerstamps were to be printed, which means that they often turn up today. Set size: 500 stamps. Four additional stamps are also known, numbered 501 to 504, issued as a block of four 'Christmas Greetings'. |
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| D.C. Thomson | |
| The All-Star Banner.
A large fold-out banner presented with the
Wizard comic. The banner includes: Arsenal (League Champions and F.A. Cup Winners 1970-71), Francis Lee, George Best, Steve Heighway, Billy Bremner, Ron Davies, Martin Chivers, John Jackson, Joe Corrigan, Iam McFaul, Peter Shilton, Phil Parkes, Pat Jennings, Peter Bonetti, Gary Sprake, Bob Wilson, Gordon Banks, Jeff Astle, Howard Kendall and Colin Harvey, Sandy Jardine, and Celtic (Scottish League Champions and F.A. Cup Winners 1970-71) |
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| Tonibell | |
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1st Division Football
League Club Badges.
These attractive badges are also available with the
Lord Neilson and
Mr Softee company names. Set size: 24. |
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| Top Sellers | |
| Football 72.
A large set of cards featuring the First Division teams, plus some
puzzle cards. The cards were to be stuck into an album 'Football 72',
which cost 15p. The puzzle cards are: 55A to 55P - Francis Lee of Manchester City and Mike England of Spurs. 57A to 57P - Georgie Best flashes his popular aggressive form in a scramble for the ball 59A to 59P - Arsenal, Double Champions. Winners of the League title and F.A. Cup. 63A to 63P - Colin Harvey of Everton in a duel with Clyde Best of West Ham. The back of these
cards states 'Printed in Italy by Panini 1971'. You could obtain
individual cards to complete your collection by sending missing numbers
to: The album was printed by Allens Printers (Wales) Limited, Pontygwindy Industrial Estate, Caerphilly, Glam., in association with Print and Marketing Services (Europe) Ltd. Set size: 420. Checklists: Set checklist. |
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