Non-League Paper

A DAY WE WILL NEVER FORGET

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
7 June 2020

WHEN SIR STANLEY GRACED EYNESBURY

By Jeremy Blackmore

LEGEND: Sir Stanley Matthews before his 600th match at Blackpool and the poster advertising the Eynesbury match, inset below
PICTURE: PA Images

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REMARKABLE archive has been uncovered telling the stoiy of the day the world’s most famous footballer turned out for a village team in Cambridgeshire.
By 1955, Stanley Matthews was a legend of the game, who had inspired Blackpool to an unforgettable FA Cup victory two years earlier and was still playing regularly for England.
Known as ‘the magician’, he was renowned for ...

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