And here we had quite a simple start, because this is Tony Currie. Now you may not realise that at one point the dish was called `Currie`, or there have been many other spellings, including its first English mention, when it was called `Currey`, that was way back in 1747 in Hannah Glasse`s cookery book. The actual word came from the Tamil language, where the dish was known as `Kari`, though strangely the French language had already given us very similar kitchen-related words, `cuyre`, which meant `to cook` and `cureer` which meant to prepare food.
This set, which we have hopefully not had already, is described in our original set of British Trade Indexes as :
Football Series 1974-75 (A) 81 x 56. Back in style of ABF-52.
1. English issue. Back in red and black. Nd. (132)
2. Scottish Issue. Back in green and black. Nd. (132)
Our updated version of the British Trade Index is similar but helpfully mentions the front colour too. The description there is :
FOOTBALLERS (A) 1974-5. 81 x 56. Nd. (264). Yellow front border. Back "rub coin over space for answer"
1. English issue. Nd. (132). Red back border
2. Scottish Issue. Nd. (132). Green back border
Now in the Scottish issue card number 17 is not our man, instead it is Gordon Marshall who played for Arbroath F.C.
Another strange fact is that on the packet, or so I have been told, the title is "Footballer Picture Cards".
And, most importantly, this was the last ever set of A & B.C. Footballers, because Topps took over the company shortly after.