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Daily Mail | Cleaning Up the Mess by Ian Kennedy

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George Eastham gave up playing, became a cork salesman – and changed the lot of professional footballers forever

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For the outstanding Danny Blachflower it was ‘the greatest emotional experience of my life’

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‘They’re frightened to death. Their faces are blank, Bob. Blank. They’re frightened to death’

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Hazard must hope for a better experience than the great Jimmy Greaves who was soon back in London after leaving Chelsea

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‘As we clashed, the side of my head hit Ray here on the cheek’

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Tales of a Birkenhead boy who learnt things the hard way

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A Wolves side fuelled by monkey glands were going ‘to run Portsmouth off the field’ – but Pompey won 4-1

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‘He could be in a small room with three other people – and, with the ball at his feet, he’d dribble round the lot of them’

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Biteback buys collected columns of Times sketchwriter

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When Cliff Jones asked the Tottenham manager for a pay rise – and straightaway knew he had done the wrong thing

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One England footballer sold eggs his chickens laid to fellow players, another worked as a plumber between representing his club and country