Card of the Day - 2022-11-19

For our first clue of the week we had this card, showing Paul "Ride Out".

This set is listed in our British Trade Index part IV, issued in 1997, with four sets of "Football Candy Sticks" cards, and it reads :

Football Candy Sticks. 65 x 35. Four sets, each Nd. 1/48" 
1. 1986-87 issue. Back without compilation date
2. 1987-88 issue. Back"compiled up to March 31st 1987."
3. 1988-89 issue. Back"compiled up to April 30th 1988."
4. 1989-90 issue. Back"compiled up to May 31st 1989."
    Back in two shades of red".

And they are too modern for our updated British Trade Index. 

For some reason, and I have to say rather excitingly, there were four different boxes available for our set, all of them a different colour, and not only that, all of them had a different picture.

You can see them all at The Trading Card Database/Bassett Box 89.

Whilst you can check out a very scarce promotional leaflet at The Football Cartophilic Exchange/ Bassett89

Now, going back to something we touched on earlier, in our printed magazine -edition dated January/February 1989 (Vol.16 Issue 153) - as part of the New Issues section, we actually call the previous series of these cards, issued for the 1988-89 series,  "Footballers Candy Sticks" as well. And here is the clipping from that edition

I have already had a very prompt response to say that the 1987-88 series is known as "Footballers Candy Sticks" too. 

As far as I have been able to find out, the words "Sweet Cigarettes" were replaced by "Candy Sticks" in the 1970s. Anyone know any more about this?