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===Association football=== Ogden's Limited of Liverpool produced cigarette cards featuring football from 1894 which were included with their Guinea Gold brand until 1901. They were later included with their Tabs brand from 1901 to 1903.<ref name=prog>{{cite work|title=Red Alert (Bristol City v Ipswich Town)|issue=2|date=6 August 2011|page=67|last=Smith|first=Steve}}</ref> In 1896 Marcus & Company of Manchester produced the first football set called Footballers & Club Colours.<ref name=sparta/> In 1902 W.D. & H.O. Wills produced a set of football-related cards called the Football Series with 66 cards featuring advertising for their [[Woodbine (cigarette)|Wild Woodbine]] and Cinderella brands. William Clarke & Sons of Liverpool later issued the same set but with a short biography for the player on each one.<ref name=prog/> In 1906, Ogden's produced a set depicting footballers in their club colours, in one of the first full-colour sets.<ref name=sparta/> Wills issued a 50-card set for the Indian market in 1907 with their Scissors brand, called Football Team Colours. Further sets were issued overseas by Wills in 1910 and 1914.<ref name=prog/> Wills produced further sets in 1935 and 1939.<ref name=sparta/>
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