The Wonderful World of Soccer Stars 1970/1971

Welcome to the The Wonderful World of Soccer Stars Picture Stamp Album 1970/1971.

The 1969/1970 football season was won by Arsenal with 65 points from 42 games with Leeds United again taking the runners up spot. Burnley and Blackpool were both relegated. These were the days when teams got 2 points for a win and only 2 teams were relegated.

During the 1970/1971 football season:

BOAC Flight 775 was hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — the first time a British plane had been hijacked
Jimi Hendrix, 27, died in London from a suspected drug-induced heart attack
Elvis Presley begins his first concert tour since 1958 in Phoenix, Arizona
The first Glastonbury Festival was held
The Partridge Family airs on ABC
British Petroleum discovered a large oil field in the North Sea
The Mark III Ford Cortina went on sale
The first Page Three girl appeared in The Sun
In Los Angeles, Rock and blues singer Janis Joplin dies in her hotel room, from an overdose of heroin
Athlete Lillian Board, 22, died after a three-month battle against cancer
The Beatles split up
A stairway crush at the Rangers vs. Celtic football match at Ibrox Stadium in Glasgow killed 66 and left many more injured
Rolls-Royce went bankrupt and is nationalised.
The United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland both switched to decimal currency
Enoch Powell predicted an “explosion” unless there is massive repatriation for immigrants
Unemployment reached a post-Second World War high of nearly 815,000
Born this season: Alan Shearer, Darren Gough, Emily Lloyd, Sir Matthew Pinsent, Zoë Ball, Aled Jones, Gary Barlow, Patrick Kielty, Sonia, Rachel Weisz, David Coulthard, Ewan McGregor, David Tennant, George Osborne, David James and River Phoenix