When Footballers Were Skint: A Journey in Search of the Soul of Football

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Nothing was conclusively proved, though, and after Wolves lost by three goals to Portsmouth in the 1939 FA Cup final – sometimes referred to as the Monkey Glands Final because Portsmouth were also said to be sampling the treatment – the whole episode was consigned to being one of Buckley’s more bonkers ideas. Buckley put practice matches at the centre of his coaching and demanded a direct style of play rather than excessive elaboration. Winterbottom’s revival hopes ended with the Munich air crash in February1958, 15 days after which Edwards died from kidney damage.

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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! The author of this article, Paul Grech, has written two volumes of Il Re Calcio, quick read e-books that feature stories from the history of Italian football. Dodds was particularly effective at sorting out those who caused Matthews aggravation in a way that referees accepted. Those are the questions that Uli Hesse has tried to answer, charting Borussia’s rise following their brush with financial meltdown.According to charity Xpro, as many as 60% of Premier League starlets have been declared penniless within the space of five years of hanging up their boots. 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. Ken Bensinger’s Red Card investigates the greed and arrogance at the heart of Fifa, the game’s governing body, and the deals that were done in awarding the 2018 World Cup to Russia and the 2022 World Cup to Qatar. In Football Leaks: Uncovering the Dirty Deals Behind the Beautiful Game, Rafael Buschmann and Michael Wulzinger, two sports journalists from the German news weekly Der Spiegel, relate how they were approached by a mysterious Portuguese football fan – identified only as John – with more than 18m documents containing the full details of some of the leading players’ transfer arrangements and salaries. In particular, he was at the forefront of introducing routines with a wider purpose than simply keeping players fit.

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Edwards bestrode the football field, a six-foot-three athlete with strength and stamina, who dribbled with the deftness of a much smaller man, hit long, precise passes and shot with meaning with either foot. However, after a series of investments which did not pay off, as well as serious debts, Rufus filed for bankruptcy last year. 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.As a young man Collindridge mixed with many of the figures who had contributed to the game’s formative years. Buckley is someone whose name may largely have disappeared into the mists of long ago but he was a substantial figure in football’s postwar development.