Here we have Tom Parker, shown in his Arsenal strip, but before joining them he scored one of the goals that took Sheffield United into the 1925 F.A. Cup Final. Unfortunately he was playing for their opponents, Southampton. In fact Mr. Parker must have got out of bed on the wrong side on the morning of the 28th of March, 1925, and travelled to Stamford Bridge, for he not only scored an own goal, but he missed a penalty, and was a factor in the goal that Sheffield did score to take them through to the final 2-0.
I have had this set on my radar for some time but it is a bit too technical and the description way too lengthy to include as a diary card.
It first appears in our original British Trade Index, but the list there is numbered, and the cards are not. Therefore I have replaced the numbers with bullets. There are a few names which are listed differently on the card when compared to this list, and a note of those has also been added. The text, otherwise, reads :
- FOOTBALL "STARS". Sm. 62 x 36. Caricatures on black background, inscribed "Copyright BCH/HLZ". Unnd. (100). Four back wordings each subject found with either both the "A" or both the "B" wordings.
A Backs - (a) "Barratt`s Xmas Club Boxes are the Best. Order Yours Early"
- (b) "Tarrab Brand Rock is the Best"
B Backs - (c) "Barratt & Co`s Sweets are Pure"
(d) "Buy Barratt & Co`s Sherbet Novelties"
- H. Adcock, Leicester City (A)
- S.W. Austin, Manchester City (B)
- T. Avey, Fulham (A)
- A. Barrett, Fulham (A)
- F. Barson, Watford (B)
- M. Bell, Hull City (B)
- Syd Bishop, Chelsea (B)
- A Black, Millwall (B)
- D. Blair, Clyde (B)
- W. Blyth, Birmingham (A)
W. Blyth, Arsenal (B)- J. Bradford, Brimingham (B)
- W. Brae, Ayr United (A)
- T. Bradshaw, Bury (A)
- Norman Bullock, Bury (B)
- G Camsell, Middlesborough (B)
- H. Chambers, West Bromwich (A)
- Jack Cock, Millwall (A)
- J. Collins, Swansea (B)
- J. Cookson, West Bromwich (A)
- W. Cresswell, Everton (B)
- A. Cunningham, Glasgow Rgrs (A) - the card has the full title "Glasgow Rangers"
- Len Davies, Cardiff City (A)
- W. Davies, Notts County (A)
- Dixie Dean, Everton (A)
- Jim Dimmock, Spurs, (B)
- J. Elkes, Spurs (B)
- J. Fort, Millwall (B)
- Hugh Gallacher, Newcastle Utd (B) - the card has the full title"Newcastle United"
- Vivian Gibbons, West Ham (B)
- J. Gibson, Aston Villa (B)
- W. Gillespie, Sheffield Wed (A) - the card is actually inscribed "Sheffield United".
- G. Goddard, Queens Pk. Rangers (A) - the card does use the abbreviation "Pk."
- A. Grimsdell, Spurs (B)
- Fred Keenor, Cardff City (A)
- W. Kirkham, Port Vale (A)
- W. Hardy, Cardiff City (B)
- N. Harris, Oldham Athletic (A)
- J. H. Hill, Burnley (B)
J. H. Hill. Newcastle United (B)- Fred Hopkin, Liverpool (A)
- J. H. Hulme, Arsenal (B)
- R. Iriving, Portsmouth (A)
- David Jack, Arsenal (B)
David Jack, Bolton Wand. (B) - the card has the full title "Bolton Wanderers"- A. Jackson, Huddersfield (A)
- Alec James, Preston North End (B)
- J. Jenkins, Brighton & Hove (A)
- Sam Jennings, Leeds United (B)
- R. F. John, Arsenal (A)
- J. Johnson, Sheffield Utd. (B) - the card does use the abbreviation "Utd."
- H. Jones, Blackburn Rovers (B)
- Fred Keenor, Cardiff City (A)
- W. Kirkham, Port Vale (A)
- J. Landells, Millwall (A)
- A. Lockhead, Leicester City (A)
- P. McCloy, Manchester City (B)
- R. McDonald, Clapton Orient (A)
- A. McGlory, Motherwell (A)
- D. McKinlay, Liverpool (B)
- J. McMullen, Manchester City (B)
- P. Maddison, Hull Ciity (A)
- A. L. Messer, Reading (A)
- F. Morgan, Notts Forest (B) - the card does use the abbreviation "Notts."
- D. H. Morris, Swindon (B)
- Alan Morton, Glasgow Rangers (B)
- J. Murdock, Airdrieonians (A)
- L. Murphy, Bolton Wanderers (A)
- E. O`Callaghan, Spurs (B)
- Reg Osborne, Leicester City (A)
- Tom Parker, Arsenal (B)
- W. Pease, Middlesbro (A) - the card does use the abbreviation "Middlesbro"
- Syd Puddefoot, Blackburn R. (B) - the card has the full title "Blackburn Rovers"
- Alf Quantrill, Bradford (B)
- F. Roberts, Manchester City (A)
- J. Ruffell, West Ham (B)
- J. Seddon, Bolton Wanderers (A)
- Jimmy Seed, The Wednesday (B) - this is what the card says, just "The Wednesday"
- S. Seymour, Newcastle Utd (B) - the card has the full title "Newcastle United"
- H. Skitt, Spurs (B)
- T. Smart, Aston Villa (B)
- Joe Smith, Stockport County (A)
Joe Smith, Wigan (A)- W. H. Smith, Huddersfield (B)
- Joe Spence, Manchester Utd (A) - the card does use the abbreviation "Utd"
- Clem Stevenson, Huddersfield (A)
- H. Storer, Derby County (A)
- J. Sykes, Swansea Town (B)
- A. Thain, Chelsea (A)
- J. Townrow, Chelsea (A)
- J. Trotter, Wednesday (A) - this is what the card says, just "Wednesday", not even a "The" as on card 76
- Fred Tunstall, Sheffield Wed (A) - the card is actually inscribed "Sheffield United".
- T, Vizard, Bolton Wanderers (A)
- S. Wadsworth, Huddersfield (A)
- W. Walker, Aston Villa (B)
- Victor Watson, West Ham (A)
- Jessie Whatley, Bristol Rovers (A)
- Owen Williams, Middlesboro (A) - the card does use the abbreviation "Middlesbro"
- A. Wilson, Chelsea (A)
- Charlie Wilson, Stoke (B)
- G. Wilson, Nelson (B)
- T. Yews, West Ham (B)
- R. York, Aston Villa (B)
As a little bit of humour, with hindsight, I typed this list in from out of the original British Trade Index and then turned over to see if there was anything else to add after the name list. There was, another name list. On the page I had been working on it was two columns numbered 1/23 and 51/74 and I had not noticed this, so I had to change all the numbers of those and add in the two columns I had just discovered overleaf
There is only one change to this list in our British Trade Index part two, and that adds a second card for S. Wadsworth, Huddersfield (A), of "S. Wadsworth, Bolton". We presume that it, too, has the (A) back pairing.
No more discoveries take place in parts three and four.