These are two sets of footballers top trumps from about 1980. The players are mostly from the the old English First Division, with a few high profile British footballers that played abroad thrown in, too. And Stan Bowles. There were 32 cards in each pack.
These packs have been so thoroughly mixed up over the years that I can’t tell you which cards were in which pack, I’m afraid, and I’ve lost the title cards and the rules. Now we’ll never know how to play.
I am truly sorry.
This pack of Top Trumps is from the late 70s, and they were published by Dubreq. The players statistics are from up to the end of the 1978 cricket season. The pack contained 32 cards.
I think Top Trumps might well be the only game that lasts longer than Test cricket, so this is basically the pefect subject for a set.
This pack of Top Trumps is from the late 70s, when they were still published by Dubreq. There were 32 cards in the set.
If there was one thing the top trumps companies were obsessed with, it was war. Endless war, and endless near identical war machines. The 70s and 80s were a terrifying time.
That single vertically aligned card was annonying when we used to play and now it has ruined my attempts at nicely and neatly formatting this post, too. I will never forgive it.
This pack of Top Trumps were released in 1992 by Waddingtons. There are 30 cards in the set. It is the third pack in a loosely linked set along with Dragons and Magic Beasts and Aliens and Space Warriors.
If you really wanted to, you could combine all three packs into one really massive top trumps pack (as long as you didn’t mind equating Intelligence with Magical Power). I assume if you did this the game would never ever end at any point.
This pack of Top Trumps were released in 1992 by Waddingtons. There are 30 cards in the set.
This pack was part of the same series as the Aliens and Space Monsters set. There was also a third set in the series, Goblins and Faeriefolk, which is probably the best of the lot, due to having a witch in it.
I think the best card in this set is probably Barad the incredibly smug Minotaur.
Also in this pack (and in most of the other packs from the early 90s), there is a card that’s just an advert for subbuteo.
There’s also a card that allows you to claim a free pack if you have enough of them, but I don’t think we ever did. Or, at least, if we did we never sent them off.
Also I’ve only just noticed that by the 90s they weren’t even Top Trumps anymore but Super Top Trumps.