| Season 1975/76 An interesting year with Topps emerging from the remains of A&BC, but for me the cards never quite reached the same heights as the early A&BC editions. FKS continued on their merry way, experimenting with postcards to enhance the usual stickers collection. |
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| England Soccer Stars.
A set of 24 postcards to be collected and stuck into the album. The album
refers to the pictures as 'full-colour photographs' and suggests that 'cards
and album will become a collector's item eagerly sought after in years ahead'.
So are they cards, photographs or postcards? Your guess is as good as mine! The photographs have' © Major Sports (Leicester) on the front. The album was 'Printed in England' (hooray). Set size: 24 |
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Football Stars. A set of 50 cards depicting
players from England and Scotland. Number in set: 50 Gallery: N/A Checklists: Set checklist, Team checklist |
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Soccer Stars '75 '76 English First Division, Stars
of Scotland, Ireland and Wales, European Team Pictures.
It's no longer a 'Wonderful World', with the phrase gone from the title
after 8 years, but the phrase 'Picture Stamp Album' is back on the front
of the cover after a 3-year absence - hooray. The card experiment has been
ditched in favour of the original sticker format. Album: Price 20p. Number in set: 360 Packet: 7 stamps for 4p Gallery: Arsenal, Aston Villa, Birmingham City, Burnley, Coventry City, Derby County, Everton, Ipswich Town, Leeds United, Leicester City, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Middlesbrough, Newcastle United, Norwich City, Queens Park Rangers, Sheffield United, Stoke City, Tottenham Hotspur, West Ham United, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Stars of Scotland, Ireland and Wales, European Teams. Checklists: Set checklist, Team checklist Special: FKS album gallery |
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Euro Soccer postcards.
A new concept for S with postcards. Only 55 in the set, with 22 being English
teams. You could buy postcards directly from FKS to make up your set at
a price of 4p each. The album for these postcards is similar to the traditional
FKS albums, where you were expected to stick the postcards into the album
at the top only. The postcards have no specific markings on them to indicate
where to glue, but the album spaces have instructions to 'Apply adhesive
here only'. Album: Price 20p. Number in set: 55 Packet: 2 postcards Checklists: Set checklist, Team checklist Special: FKS album gallery |
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Soccer Super Stars of Britain. The ultra-violent
Action comic issue dated 28/02/1976 gave away these cards as a free gift.
The front page of the comic (see here
http://www.sevenpennynightmare.co.uk/complete/issue03/01.htm) states
'There are four sets of 16 players! Which set will you get?'. If I understand
this correctly it is a strange way to give away football cards, and made
it impossible to collect all 64 unless you bought at least four copies of
the comic? You therefore don't often see these cards as a complete set. Number in set: 64 Gallery: Set gallery Checklists: Set checklist and Team checklist |
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Football. Unnumbered, poor quality cards
on a cheap card with plain grey backs. The quality control on the player
and team names is also very suspect, with one card mentioning both the player
and team name as 'Everton' (actually Terry Darracott). The QPR and Glasgow
Rangers cards were printed with the word 'Football' in either red or yellow
writing.The set is mainly of individual players, but also includes some
team cards. Number in set: 204? I'm not sure. Gallery: N/A Checklists: N/A |
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| Superstars.
A set of 100 large stickers with glued-backs.
This set covers 'Superstars' from many fields of entertainment and sport,
including Bill Bixby, Alice Cooper, Dad's Army, Tony Blackburn, Bjorn Borg,
Evel Knievel etc. Of interest to this website are five stickers with footballers: 1 - Brian Clough 65 - Derek Dougan 79 - Bobby Charlton 84 - Malcolm Allison 97 - Jimmy Hill The stickers were printed in Italy by S.T.I.G. of Torino (Turin). Number in set: 100 Gallery: N/A Checklists: N/A |
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Football
'76. A large set of stickers (no longer cards) featuring the First Division
teams, plus some puzzle cards. The stickers no longer have the player's
name or biography on the back, just the card number. The back of the cards states: Published by Top Sellers Ltd. 135 Wardour St. - London W.1. Printed in Italy by Panini 1975. Number in set: 420 Gallery: N/A Checklists: Set checklist Special: Puzzle cards master index |
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Footballer (Red/grey backs).
A set comprising individual footballers from the First and Second Divisions.
One section of cards includes a Great Britain Select Eleven. The cards have
'Topps Bazooka Limited' printed on the back. Number in set: 220 Gallery: N/A Checklists: Set checklist or Team checklist |
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