Tag: football
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A Place that was Ours. Chapter Seven – Entertaining Maberley
Once upon a very long time ago when names like Stanley Matthews and Billy Wright reigned supreme in the English League, Casterley Town was a successful football club. An upwardly mobile board and legendary manager Joe Burness took ‘Town’ to third in its division and, with promotion a certainty, decided to invest in a stadium…
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A Place that was Ours: Chapter Three. A Beautiful Game
Bill Shankly, one of the great football managers, once said that some people regarded football as a matter of life or death. He expressed his deep disappointment with their attitude, adding: “I can assure you football is much, much more important than that.” If, like me, you were a kid growing up in our town…
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The Beautiful Game
Football ( or Soccer, if you prefer) is often called ‘The Beautiful Game’. I forget who first conjured the phrase – possibly it came to prominence around the same time somebody dreamt up that one about ‘the British Police Force is the best in the world’, or some such. Personally, I can find…
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