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Admiral
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

 
Bassetts
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
 
FKS Publishers
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
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
IPC Magazines
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
 
Monty Gum
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
 
Top Sellers
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
 
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
 
Topps Chewing Gum
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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