Hi Pete,
No, I didn't get this set in my even younger days, I was talking about the collecting of cards of that particular world cup. Collecting these cards is like baseball cards and every WC they have a book for cards of all the players etc. I have that book of 1982 and the flags fit the countries perfectly.
Personally I do not think the flag has anything to do with Gibraltar. Looking at this from a Spanish point of view and their position on Gibraltar as occupied land they would never put the British flag on a Spanish set. I put my money on 100 years of soccer but it is all speculation and won't hold up in court.
Googling CDC has probably given the answer of both the flags of the provinces as CDC in Spains stands for "convergència democràtica de catalunya" see
http://www.convergencia.org/index.php. The one flag of Catalunya and of the other 2 are probably of the areas they are very big in as a political party.
I guess this means two options for the British flag:
A) 100 years of soccer
B) Political connection with Britain
as I do not think that a Spanish national party is in any way happy with Gibraltar, looking at how they feel about the situation of the rock over there.
Dennis.
Smurfs and politics
