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Stanley Matthew’s football pioneer: Michael Stewart looks back at the career of the legendary outside right

It was a bleak, cold winter afternoon on February 6, 1965. In the Stoke City dressing room, a man five days past his 50th birthday was lacing up his lightweight football boots for the final time in his long and illustrious career.

It was a bleak, cold winter afternoon on February 6, 1965. In the Stoke City dressing room, a man five days past his 50th birthday was lacing up his lightweight football boots for the final time in his long and illustrious career.

Injuries had necessitated the need for Sir Stanley Matthews to grace the field professionally for the final occasion.
At the time, though, no one knew it was coming as he hadn’t announced his forthcoming retirement. But injuries that took longer to heal and younger, fresher legs were becoming harder to ignore for a man who loved the game with all his heart.
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