Merlin Team 90 Brian Laws

Merlin Team 90 sticker #219 Brian Laws, published for the 1989/90 season. A player biography features on the reverse. This was Merlin's first album, after the company was founded by former Panini employees.

Topps Footballers 'Orange' John O'Hare

Topps Footballers 'Orange' card #358 John O'Hare, published in 1978. Career statistics are included on the reverse.

Chix Footballers Jeff Whitefoot

Chix Footballers card #16 Jeff Whitefoot, published in 1960. A brief biography and player caricature are on the reverse.

A&BC Footballers 'Pairs' Alan Hinton

A&BC Footballers 'Pairs' card #170 Alan Hinton, published during the 1966/67 season. The cards are usually found as singles but were originally issued in pairs and were perforated down the centre. Hinton came with #153 Ernie Hunt of Wolverhampton Wanderers. A brief player pen pic is on the reverse.

Marshall Cavendish Book of Football Top Teams Duncan McKenzie

Marshall Cavendish Book of Football Top Teams card #204 Duncan McKenzie, published in 1971 and 1972.
The cards, which were to be glued into the album, were issued in single sheets of 16 for the first 20 weeks. The album, which was issued in 75 weekly parts, featured two players per club which were pre-printed, in Forest's case #198 Peter Hindley and #200 Sammy Chapman. 

Kevin Keegan's Match Makers Frank Gray

Match Magazine Kevin Keegan's Match Makers sticker #6 Frank Gray, published by EMAP in 1980.

Evening Post Football Legends Roy Dwight

Nottingham Evening Post Football Legends unnumbered card Roy Dwight, published ca 2004. A precis of Dwight's career, focussing on his cup final goal and subsequent broken leg, feature on the reverse.

The collection, which was given away with the newspaper, also featured players from the county's two other professional clubs, Notts County and Mansfield Town.

Panini Football 88 Kjetil Osvold

Panini Football 88 sticker #187 Kjetil Osvold, published for the 1987/88 season. A player biography is featured on the reverse.

Donaldson Sports Favourites Golden Series Nottingham Forest

A&J Donaldson Sports Favourites Golden Series unnumbered card Nottingham Forest, published ca 1955. The cards are believed to have been published to mark the launch of the European Cup. In all 144 different cards are known to exist, featuring clubs from the British Isles and continental Europe.

Leaf 100 Years of Soccer Stars Brian Clough

Leaf 100 Years of Soccer Stars sticker #86 Brian Clough, published in 1988. The reverse features a biography of Clough's playing and managerial career.

Topps Stadium Club Brian Laws

Topps Stadium Club card #179 Brian Laws, published in 1992. Brief career statistics are contained on the reverse.

FKS Soccer Stars 1977/78 John Robertson

FKS Soccer Stars 1977/78 sticker #291 John Robertson.

Merlin Premier League 97 Nikola Jerkan

Merlin Premier League 97 sticker #365 Nikola Jerkan, published for the 1996/97 season. A brief player biography is included on the reverse.

Sporting Profiles European Cup Winners 1980 Programme Covers Forest v Oesters

Sporting Profiles European Cup Winners 1980 Programme Covers unnumbered card Forest v Oesters, published in 2006.
The first round first leg game was played on 19 September 1979, Forest winning 2-0 thanks to a brace from Ian Bowyer in front of a crowd of 21,974.

Editions Rencontre Soccer Archie Gemmill

Editions Rencontre Soccer card #43-01 Archie Gemmill, published in 1978. Also known as the Sportscaster collection, this was a massive series of sports themed cards published in variety of countries. These large size cards feature an extensive write up on the reverse, in this case details Gemmill's career at both club and international level.

LTA Robinson Meet The Soccer Stars Wally Ardron

LTA Robinson Meet The Soccer Stars unnumbered paper issue Wally Ardron, published in 1949. A detailed pen pic is on the reverse.

Merlin Euro 96 City Ground

Merlin Euro 96 sticker #329 City Ground. All host stadia were included in the collection, with the City Ground playing host to three Group D matches.

The Sun Football Swap Cards Henry Newton

The Sun Football Swap Cards card #84 Henry Newton, published during the 1970/71 season.

Panini Football 93 Ray McKinnon

Panini Football 93 sticker #180 Ray McKinnon, published for the 1992/93 season. As far as I know this is the only card or sticker to feature McKinnon in Forest colours, as the Scotsman only made six appearances for the club.

Jim Hossack Creation Soccer Stars Lars Bohinen

Jim Hossack Creation Soccer Stars unnumbered card Lars Bohinen, published in 2006. Only six cards of these cards were produced, this being number three. Brief details of Bohinen's career are on the reverse.

Comic Life Sports Champions Harry Jones

Sports Champions card #8 Harry Jones, given away with Comic Life magazine on 21/10/1922. These cards are usually found as singles but were originally issued as pairs. Jones came with card #7 referee J.T. Howcroft (pictured).

FKS Soccer Stars Series 2 Nottingham Forest

FKS Soccer Stars Series 2 card #7 Nottingham Forest, published in 1977.

Topps Footballers 'Red' John McGovern

Topps Footballers 'Red Back' card #141 John McGovern, published in 1977. A biography and career statistics are contained on the reverse.

Oh Boy Gum Footballers William Dickinson

Oh Boy Gum Footballers unnumbered card W. Dickinson, published by British Chewing Sweets circa 1933. Probably published during the 1933/34 season the collection featured 15 Midlands clubs, with four players per club. These cards are now considered rare.

Panini Football 89 Stuart Pearce

Panini Football 89 sticker #205 Stuart Pearce, published for the 1988/89 season. A brief player biography is featured on the reverse.

Emlyn Hughes' Team Tactix Ian Butterworth

Emlyn Hughes' Team Tactix card #2 Ian Butterworth, published by Boss Leisure in 1986. The cards formed part of a board game which featured 21 English and four Scottish clubs, with 11 cards per team.

Universal Cigarette Card Co Football Club & Badges Nottingham Forest Ideal Home Exhibition

Universal Cigarette Card Co Football Club & Badges unnumbered card Nottingham Forest. The card was published circa 1958 as a giveaway advertising the company's trade stand at the Ideal Home Exhibition.

FKS The Wonderful World of Soccer Stars 1968/69 Barry Lyons

FKS The Wonderful World of Soccer Stars 1968/69 sticker #190 Barry Lyons. A brief biography is featured on the reverse.

Bassett & Co Premier Players Strikers 2 Stan Collymore

Bassett & Co Premier Players Strikers 2 unnumbered card Stan Collymore, issued with Match Magazine in 1995. The card is postcard sized.

A&BC Footballer 'Bazooka' Dick Le Flem

A&BC Footballer 'Bazooka' card #15 Dick Le Flem, published for the 1962/63 season.

Die Kleine Regelecke Der englische Cup für Nottingham

Die Kleine Regelecke unnumbered card Der englische Cup für Nottingham, published by Heinerle Verlag of Germany in 1960. The card shows captain Jack Burkitt raising the FA Cup aloft following the 2-1 victory over Luton Town in May 1959. On the card's reverse is an explanation of the game, which I'll use my B-Grade German to translate as follows.
"The most popular national football trophy is the English cup. Each May the final is played at London's Wembley stadium in front of a full house (100,000 spectators). In 1959 the Nottingham Forest team won the cup thanks to a 2-1 victory over Luton Town. A beaming Nottingham captain took the prized trophy from the hand of Queen Elizabeth (centre) and joyfully showed it to the crowd. Sir Stanley Rous, general secretary of the English association, assists the Queen in giving the medals. Left, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh."

Daily Mirror Stick With Soccer Chris Fairclough

Daily Mirror Stick With Soccer unnumbered sticker Chris Fairclough, published in 1986. Stickers could be found either with or without a player profile on the reverse.

AVA Americana Football Special 1977/1978 John Middleton

Sticker #264 from AVA Americana's Football Special 1977/1978 - John Middleton. The first of two albums published by AVA Americana, these stickers are much rarer than those from the following season.