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 1978/79. The battle between Panini and FKS builds, with both companies producing a variety for the buying public. FKS try to show how long they have already been in the market with the release of the popular Golden Collection. Topps produced another attractive set, but the cards look doomed to be beaten by the stickers. | |
| AVA Americana | |
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Football Special 79.
An attractive set of cards produced for the 1978/79 season including First Division line-ups, Second
Division Teams, The International Scene and National Squads (4 cards
each to make up a composite picture of the England, Scotland, Wales and
Northern Ireland squads). The album
gives very little away about the manufacturer, suggesting that extra cards can be
purchased from: The album was printed in Italy.
Set size: 384.
The image below is a shop poster used to
advertise the cards: |
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| Bassetts | |
| Football.
A set of 50 cards depicting English and Scottish players. Set size: 50. |
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| Dübreq | |
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Top Trumps - British Soccer Stars.
Top Trumps is a concept card game. Each card has a set of facts,
normally printed alongside a picture. Players choose to challenge other
player's cards on a particular fact. Dübreq produced Top Trumps sets for
a number of themes, including cars, cricket, spacecraft etc. Each set of
32 cards came in a plastic box with cover cards and rules. Number in set: 32. Click for set gallery. Checklists: Set checklist or Team checklist. |
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Top Trumps - British Strikers.
A set of 32 cards in a plastic box with cover cards and rules. Number in set: 32. Click for set gallery. Checklists: Set checklist or Team checklist. |
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Top Trumps - International Greats.
A set of 32 cards in a plastic box with cover cards and rules. There are
some duplicate cards between this set and the World Cup '78 set. Number in set: 32. Click for set gallery. Checklists: Set checklist or Team checklist. |
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Top Trumps - World Cup '78.
A set of 32 cards in a plastic box with cover cards and rules. Number in set: 32. Click for set gallery. Checklists: Set checklist or Team checklist. |
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| FKS Publishers | |
| Argentina
78. Another FKS World Cup special. This one appears to have been
produced for the general European, as well as English,market. FKS
have learnt from their errors and now publish the biographies under the
sticker spaces, so that you can still read it once the sticker is stuck
in! Set size: 300. |
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| Soccer Stars
78/79 Golden Collection. One of the rarer FKS sets. This collection
included, for the first time, the Scottish Premier Division as well as
the English First, and various team photographs.
Set size: 448. |
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| Panini | |
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Argentina 78. The album cover is shown. Set size: 400. |
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Euro Football 79. Set size: 400 |
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Football 79. The
second Panini production for the U.K. and Eire. Somehow Panini had
managed to do a deal with the Football League, and proudly announced in
the album that the collection was 'the only one to be approved by the
Football League'. The album states that information in the album was
'compiled up to date on 30 September 1978'. The collection was again distributed by Minicards Ltd, of Regina House, Queen Street, London, as sole U.K. and Eire distributors of Figurine Panini. The self-adhesive stickers came in packets costing 5p each. The album was printed in Italy. Set size: 594. |
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| The Sun | |
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Soccercards. A massive
set produced by the Sun newspaper for no apparent reason. This was their
first football cards production for 6 years, and it was another 8 years
after this one before they tried again. The set includes 1,000 "full colour drawings" of players, flags and trophies. Presumably they were unable to obtain the rights to the player photos so they commissioned an artist to draw the pictures. A typically neat way of avoiding the payment of image rights. The cards were available in packs of 50. The information printed on the cards was correct as at November 1978. The fixtures printed in the albums was correct up until 16 December 1978. The set is divided into a number of
categories: Four albums were available for the set, though they had unnumbered spaces, and not enough for 1,000 cards (each album has 150 spaces). Apparently you decided what you wanted to stick into each album. The albums were named: Set size: 1000 cards. Checklists: Set checklist, Team checklist |
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| Topps Chewing Gum | |
| Footballers (Orange
backs). A set comprising individual footballers from the First and
Second Divisions. One section of cards (Nos. 135 to 149) includes Topps
All Stars. Cards 336 to 346 provide a brief history of the World Cup.
The cards have '© 1978 Topps Chewing Gum Inc.' printed on the back.
Set size: 396 |
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