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 1976/77. Another year of solid offerings in the English football card market. Panini entered through an international collection. Topps produced a good quality set, while FKS continued to experiment. Top Sellers produced their Football collection for the last time. | |
| Bassetts | |
| Football
Action.
This set is very similar to the 1977/78 set, both Football Action with
pink backs. The 1976/77 set has less spacing between the lines of the
headings. Set size: 50. |
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| Brooke Bond | |
| 40 Ways to
Play Better Soccer.
A set of cards included free with Brooke Bond PG Tips Tea and Tea Bags.
The album to stick the cards in was obtainable free from grocers when you bought žlb. of PG Tips tea or you
could send 6˝p postage to Brooke Bond OXO Ltd. Set size: 40. |
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| FKS Publishers | |
| Soccer Stars
1976/77. More tinkering by FKS. Back to a landscape format with two
photos: head shot and action. The album also included lots of 'special'
stickers e.g. action shots, managers and parts of large pictures of Pat
Jennings and Kevin Keegan. Set
size: 360 |
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| Soccer Stars 76/77 Trump Card Game. A set of 32 cards for a game, plus a Rules card. |
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| IPC Magazines | |
| Memorable Football
Firsts of Stars, Clubs and Competitions.
Cost cutting meant that most of the pictures for this booklet were in
black and white, with the magazine proudly announcing 'Many pages in
full colour'. The booklet was part of the Shoot/Goal magazine dated 18 September 1976. Set size: 135. |
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| Panini | |
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Euro Football 77.
Another 'international' Panini collection which was available in the U.K.
through the distributors, Minicards Ltd. An album was available for the
stickers. Some copies of the album were distributed for free through the
Shoot/Goal magazine. The introduction to the album states 'Hallo Friends! Let me say it feels great to tell you that fantastic picture stickers, made by Edizioni Panini, the largest producer in the world, which are already well-known and enjoyed by most of the children in Europe are now available to all British children as well'. Are all Italian sentences this long? Countries include: Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Germany, England, Spain, France, Greece, Switzerland, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Yugoslavia, Cyprus, Hungary, Malta, Holland, Norway, N. Ireland, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Scotland, USSR, Finland, Sweden, Turkey and Wales. Set size: 288. |
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| Top Sellers | |
| Football
1977.
A large set of cards featuring the First Division teams, plus some
puzzle cards. Set size: 420 |
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| Topps Chewing Gum | |
| Footballers (Blue/grey
backs). A set comprising individual footballers from the First and
Second Divisions. One section of cards (Nos. 125 to 140) includes Shoot!
Goal All Stars. The cards
have 'Topps Chewing Gum Inc.' printed on the back. An image gallery (still under development) of the full set of these cards is available, grouped by the players' clubs. Additional information has been added to each page to show each players' full career transfers and transfer fees. Teams: Arsenal, Aston Villa, Birmingham City, Bolton Wanderers, Bristol City, Burnley, Coventry City, Derby County, Everton, Ipswich Town, Leeds United, Leicester City, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Middlesbrough, Newcastle United, Norwich City, Q.P.R., Sheffield United, Southampton, Stoke City, Sunderland, Tottenham Hotspur, West Ham United, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Other teams, Checklists.
Set size: 330 |
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