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1956 Olympic Games: Great Britain’s journey to Melbourne

Colin Allan looks back at Great Britain’s bid to qualify for Melbourne 1956 and their fortunes when they travelled Down Under.

Colin Allan looks back at Great Britain's bid to qualify for Melbourne 1956 and their fortunes when they travelled Down Under.

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What a reception the team got in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia! It was October 1955 and vast crowds lined the streets to welcome the visitors.
Huge banners carried photographs of their guests’ leading players. This was the first time a side from Britain had ventured beyond the Iron Curtain to Bulgaria. The roughly half a million onlookers were anxious to get a glimpse of these British footballers.
But this...

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