Noel Dwyer was born in Dublin in October 1934. He played schoolboy football, which is where he was spotted, but he actually began with Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1957. Our card shows him at Swansea Town though, his team between the 1960/61 and the 1964/65 seasons, during which he moved to Plymouth Argyle, where he stayed until 1965/66, relocating for the final time to Charlton Athletic for a single season. He was also part of the Republic of Ireland National Squad from 1959 until 1964.
The only other card of him, according to the Trading Card Database/NoelDwyer was produced by David Rowland in 1999, part of their "Famous Footballers" Series 3 - that image shows him at West Ham United in August 1959. How great to have the actual date on the card!
Sadly he died in December 1992, aged just fifty-eight.
Our original British Trade Index part II tells us that this set is from the "Footballers Grouping" which appears in full with the Card of the Day for October 19 2024, simply because that was the first football set ever to be issued by A & B.C. Gum, in 1958-1959. All the other sets are tackled like today`s, in as much as they simply repeat their section of the listing, and not how it interacts with the other sets.
So today`s card is listed as :
FOOTBALLER GROUPING (A). Md. or Lg. 8 backs illustrated at Fig. ABF-10. Nd. ... ABF-10
4. Portrait in rectangle, thick white framelines, border in two colours. Back in red, style of Back 4 except Nos. 58, 103 and 149, which are team pictures with back headed "Footballer - Check List" in horizontal format. 81 x 57. (149) ...
There is a checklist of the set courtesy of the Trading Card Database/Footballers64-65.
On another page of that site they also show the packet, which proves this set to be trade, issued with bubble gum, and that you got two "photos" and gum for 2d.