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‘We’ll make you a sergeant,’ the army told Tommy Banks. ‘No thanks,’ he said, ‘I want to play for Bolton’

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Shankly’s cunning Euro ploy – that almost worked

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Night at the ballet that put a spring in the step of Tottenham Hotspur – and helped carry them to the semi-finals of the 1961-62 European Cup

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Wemberly (aka Wembley stadium) first opened its doors to a football match when it staged the 1923 FA Cup final at a time when the competition’s popularity dwarfed the interest shown in it today

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‘A local lad was captured by the Germans at Dunkirk. He came home and he’d been back for a week when he died… What happened to me was nothing compared to that’

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‘He reacted in a sporting way to my apology but you always had the feeling that he felt he was hard done by’

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‘And, of course, generally I showed them that one [he holds up his left fist] and banged them with it, because I was southpaw’

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‘It was a funny thing, they used to raid the betting offices, take what cash there was, close you down and let you open again on the Monday. It was to fund the Lord Mayor’s Ball, I think’

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Tommy Trinder may have been a comedian – but the Fulham chairman was not as daft as he looked

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Near tragedy that started as a simple nose bleed

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‘Why do you want a ball, you’ll see enough of that on a Saturday’

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Wembley hoodoo that almost cost a brave goalie his life