A social history of football from the Middle Ages to the present.
As the new season begins, Christopher Andrew presents a selection of facts and opinions, any one of which is a guaranteed conversation-stopper.
Did you know that there was a Welsh international with a wooden leg, that Dixie Dean went to sleep during tactics-talks, or that the Bolton cup final team in 1923 got into Wembley by crawling under a fence?
Producer PETER Everett
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