Now here is Bobby Brennan, or, more correctly, Robert Anderson Brennan, who played most of his league matches for Norwich City, but internationally for Northern Ireland. However the answer to our sneaky teaser was that after he left Norwich City in 1961 he actually joined Kings Lynn Football Club.
King's Lynn F.C. was founded in 1881 but went out of business in 2009. However the following year they were back, as Lynn F.C.. and are still going as Kings Lynn Town F.C. I do not know if you can find any cards with any of these clubs on but I look forward to hearing that you did.... as always the email is webmaster@card-world.co.uk
And please also get in touch if you can answer the question posed on this card - namely which goalkeeper was picked for Scotland to play against the Army but lost his place when it was discovered he was born in Surrey ?
Our original British Trade Index tells us that this set is from the "Footballers Grouping" and describes it as :
2. Portrait in circle, coloured surround. Back in black, style of back 2, except Nos 42 & 84 which are team pictures with back headed "Footballer Checklist" in horizontal format. 90 x 64 (84). Variety at No.42, descriptive text
a) black on white
b) white on black.
This is slightly altered by the time of our next edition of the British Trade Index. The size is now given as 89 x 64, and that the two odd cards say "Footballer Check List" as three words instead of two. There is also the revelation that the set was issued in two batches, hence those check lists, because it splits into cards 1-42 and cards 43-84. But it does say that the error card was card 41, not the originally stated 42.. Can anyone confirm this?
It also tells us that those "team pictures" show the teams of Wolves and Blackpool respectively. Now I have had a look at the two teams to see why they should be so honoured and all I can find is that they played each other on the 6th of February 1960 and it was a draw, one goal each. So if anyone can tell us why they were immortalised in such a way, please do.
And lastly, mentioned, oddly for the first time, was the fact that the big gap on the back of each card is part of the quiz, and that the answer was revealed by rubbing the edge of a coin on the empty space.