Late Tackle
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.
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