Does anyone remember Kevin Keegan? He was the superstar of
Liverpool FC in th 1970s, and the hero of all the kids who supported Liverpool.
My brother was a Liverpool supporter, and my best friend too. I was not. My
favorite team was (and still is) Leeds United.
No matter what team we supported, all the kids collected football
cards. We bought them in the local shop, packages of 4 football cards and a
chewing gum.
Once I had my lucky day. I opened a new package of cards,
and got Kevin Keegan. This card was worth a pile of cards with ordinary
players. In change for my Kevin Keegan card, I got virtually the entire Leeds United
team, including Peter Lorimer, Alan Clarke, Norman Hunter, and not the least,
Billy Bremner, the read-headed Scot who ruled the midfield for Super-Leeds >:)
(Billy Bremner died from a heart attack in 1997, at the age of 55. He has been honored with a statue outside Elland Road stadium in Leeds. I took the picture a couple of years ago when I was in Leeds to watch Leeds vs. Cardiff in the Championship League)
Collecting sports cards was a huge pastime for kids when I was young. I think it's something that's been lost in this technology age.
ReplyDeleteCollecting cards is nit interesting anymore. Now the kids have PlayStation and smartphones
DeleteYou made good on that Keegan card!
ReplyDeleteYes, I did. And now the Liverpool fans are going crazy because Liverpool are close to winning the league, for the first time in 25 years
DeleteI never collected football cards, but there were horrible cartoons that came with a particular brand of bubble gum and I was obsessed with them for a while. Wonder whatever happened to those cards?
ReplyDeleteWhere did the cards go? I don't know. I think my football cards are probably somewhere in my parents house
DeleteIn the states, my boys collected American football and baseball cards. I miss those days. It was so easy to buy them packs of cards as small gifts.
ReplyDeleteI think the card collection disappeared when Internet came.
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