Several of the old-timers I talk to while writing When Footballers Were Skint refer to robust tackling as clogging, an uncomplicated term for what was accepted as being all part of the game.

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He is the author of three other books, all published by the Yellow Jersey Press imprint of Penguin Random House: Best of British: Hendo’s Sporting Heroes, The Last Champion: The Life of Fred Perry, and The Wizard: The Life of Stanley Matthews. Great stories and memories of a bygone age, when personalities were in abundance compared to the sanitised tip, tap, pass it back and across over coached stuff on Sky today, apart from Leeds who are a breath of fresh air! Those are the questions that Uli Hesse has tried to answer, charting Borussia’s rise following their brush with financial meltdown. Why are there so many people who are attracted to Borussia Dortmund despite their lack of European dominance?Newcastle were probably hoping that after I eventually signed for Arsenal the dispute over the retain-and-transfer system would fall away,’ Eastham says. Quite how the information was obtained or whether anyone other than John was involved is never revealed, but the information kept on coming and no one has ever disputed that it is genuine. He taught me nicely but the only thing was at school I was always in scraps because someone wanted to fight me. Collindridge is in the kitchen brushing leaves away from the back door when his wife, Glenice, lets me in. I would gladly pay what I do today to watch the likes of Bell as I do for the pleasure of the modern Footballers such a Silva.

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He met all the criteria of a Busby Babe, the name given to the youthful recruits enrolled by the Manchester United manager Matt Busby because the club were too impoverished to sign established players. Football is a great game and for the true fans is welcome release from the stress and strains of everyday life.What most grates, though, are the loyalty bonuses included in every contract – bonuses that are paid to players who have made a career of serial disloyalty. My 1950s XI (traditional WM or 2-3-5 formation): Gordon Banks (Chesterfield, Leicester City, Stoke City); Bill Leivers (Chesterfield, Manchester City, Doncaster Rovers), Walley Barnes (Arsenal); Danny Blanchflower (Barnsley, Aston Villa, Tottenham Hotspur), John Charles (Leeds United, Juventus, Roma, Cardiff City), Duncan Edwards (Manchester United); Stanley Matthews (Stoke City, Blackpool), Jimmy Greaves (Chelsea, AC Milan, Tottenham Hotspur, West Ham United), Brian Clough (Middlesbrough, Sunderland), Jimmy Hagan (Derby County, Sheffield United), Tom Finney (Preston North End). United duly won the race for his signature and took him on as a full-time professional on 1 October 1953, Edwards’s seventeenth birthday. Long before perma-tanned football agents and TV mega-rights ushered in the age of the multimillionaire player, footballers wages were capped even the game's biggest names earned barely more than a plumber or electrician. But after retiring from the game in 2004 after numerous injuries, he turned his attention elsewhere.

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Little could Richard Wilberforce or anyone else have known that his landmark decision, even though loudly hailed at the time, would eventually transform the game by quite such a multiple. The former Newcastle United and Manchester United winger was heavily involved in not only drinking habits, but excessive gambling habits. Henderson has spent four years interviewing former playerswho are now in their 80s and whose stories were in danger of being forgotten.Maybe he was right, too, in implying that there could be nothing or no one of interest in surroundings of such overbearing conformity.