Panini Stickers - Leicester Fosse Style

[kushiro]

OK, so Panini Stickers weren't around in the Edwardian Era. But there were cigarette cards. And also, in 1906/07,  these wonderful illustrations published in the Leicester Mercury. There was one a week, every Saturday between November and February, alongside a profile of the featured player.

 

As far as I know, they haven't been published anywhere in the intervening years. But I think they're just great. They really are works of art, drawn with great care, especially the Filbert Street scenes in the background, in which you get a good impression of how the ground looked 120 years ago, just before Archibald Leitch was brought in to make a series of improvements (after we won promotion for the first time the following season). 

 

I don't know if anyone cut them out and arranged them on a page back then, but if they did, they'd have made a fine little display on the bedroom door or the factory wall.

 

I've collected them all together here:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited 9 June 2024 by kushiro

[Out Foxed]

What was bert trueman's nickname 😆 

[kushiro]

4 minutes ago, Out Foxed said:

What was bert trueman's nickname 😆 

 

Decided to pass over that one. 

 

It does tell you in Of Fossils and Foxes.

[kushiro]

I mentioned that there were player profiles published alongside the illustrations, and it's a measure of the care taken over the project that the profiles and the pics would often match up. 

 

Here's an excerpt from the Joe Blackett profile:

 

 

 

And in the picture you can see him doing just that - raising one leg and scraping the ball down with the sole of his boot:

 

 

 

[Free Falling Foxes]

22 hours ago, kushiro said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Got. Got. Not got. Got. Not got. Got.............

 

Do children still play 'Swapsies' in the playground I wonder?

Edited 10 June 2024 by Free Falling Foxes

[Out Foxed]

8 hours ago, kushiro said:

I mentioned that there were player profiles published alongside the illustrations, and it's a measure of the care taken over the project that the profiles and the pics would often match up. 

 

Here's an excerpt from the Joe Blackett profile:

 

 

 

And in the picture you can see him doing just that - raising one leg and scraping the ball down with the sole of his boot:

 

 

 

2011 version

Kermo was decent

[kushiro]

Over on Bentley's Roof a poster called 'Channy6thswan' mentioned he'd actually got hold of a set of Fosse cigarette cards from way back when. They are from the 'Cope' company. 

 

Here they are:

 

 

 

 

 

They're from five years after the Mercury illustrations. 1910/11 season.

 

[kushiro]

I mentioned those player profiles that accompanied the illustrations. They were great too - written by 'Old Fossil',  a candidate for the best football writer in the history of the Mercury.  

 

Here's the profile of Jimmy Blessington:

 

 

[The Fox Covert]

On 10/06/2024 at 21:38, kushiro said:

Over on Bentley's Roof a poster called 'Channy6thswan' mentioned he'd actually got hold of a set of Fosse cigarette cards from way back when. They are from the 'Cope' company. 

 

Here they are:

 

 

 

 

 

They're from five years after the Mercury illustrations. 1910/11 season.

 

Was Threlfall the goalkeeper?

[davieG]

15 hours ago, kushiro said:

I mentioned those player profiles that accompanied the illustrations. They were great too - written by 'Old Fossil',  a candidate for the best football writer in the history of the Mercury.  

 

Here's the profile of Jimmy Blessington:

 

 

Shame we didn't go with the history and uniqueness of Leicester Fosse, The Fosse especially now the City is used by everyone to mean Man City 

[oxford blue]

kushiro - what a superb post! 

 

Really interesting: I had no idea about these cards in cigarette packets; googling Arthur Chandler (perhaps the only name I know until after WW2 ) I see he was featured on a Gallerher's cigarette packet card.  Any idea when cigarette cards started and ended?

[Foxes1]

I have quite a few cards involving Leicester city including a set produced by Pinnace (See photo). Also anyone spot the error on the Neil Lewis card in the Subbuteo Squads series .

[kushiro]

6 hours ago, oxford blue said:

  Any idea when cigarette cards started and ended?

 

Posts on here might give you an idea - especially some of the links.

 

https://www.bentleysroof.co.uk/index.php?threads/panini-stickers-leicester-fosse-style.25945/

[kushiro]

8 hours ago, The Fox Covert said:

Was Threlfall the goalkeeper?

 

It looks like he's wearing a keeper's jersey, doesn't it? 

 

But he was a winger. He scored a famous goal at Leyton in 1910 that put us into the FA Cup quarter finals for the first time.

[Gamble92]

1 hour ago, Foxes1 said:

I have quite a few cards involving Leicester city including a set produced by Pinnace (See photo). Also anyone spot the error on the Neil Lewis card in the Subbuteo Squads series .

One hell of a Wolverhampton accent on Neil Lewis so there was