Kane Products Ltd were based in London and East Grinstead. This card measures 67 x 35 m/m and it is from a numbered set of twenty-five cards
Our man gave the first clue from his surname, for he is Toni Marchi, of Tottenham Hotspurs. Now to me that extra "s" in Hotspur"s" seems odd, though I know that they are called "Spurs". Can anyone find, or does anyone know, a time that they were called Tottenham Hotspurs? If so let us know.
Toni Marchi, or Anthony Marchi was born in Edmonton, North London, on the 21st of January 1933. He started with Tottenham Hotspur Youth Squad in 1947, then moved up to the Seniors two years later, and stayed there for fifteen years, though as the card predicted he did move to Italy, in 1957, the year of this card. However he did not sign for Lanerossi Vicenza after all, but for Juventus, (some three hours drive away). Juventus seem not to have ever put him on a squad, but they did loan him out to other teams. And I have not found that he was on the Italian National Squad either, as predicted on this card. That is possibly why he returned to English football, and to Tottenham Hotspur, in 1959, and stayed there until 1965.
Then instead of going to another team as a player he turned to managing, Cambridge City for a couple of years and then a year at Northampton Town.
The TradingCardDatabase/Marchi has him on five cards. There is another, a series of paper cards issued by the Sunday Express as sheets to be cut down, or maybe even printed within the paper. Maybe a reader can tell us more? The card of Tony Marchi is headed The Italian Collection but there seems to be several sub sections of the set with different headings. The descriptive text on this card says he "Didn`t enjoy Italian Football".
He died in March 2022, aged eighty-nine.