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Number seven.
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It's an important number.
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Go ahead, try it on.
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Do you like it?
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It is beautiful.
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Why is it an important number?
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My friend,
that one is quite a story.
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Stanley Matthews
is without a doubt the most
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important figure in
football in the 20th,
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possibly 21st century as well.
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He became known
throughout the world.
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His fame has spread.
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Everybody knew about
Sir Stanley Matthews.
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He was such
a massive figure.
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I think it's quite
difficult to understand now
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quite how important he was.
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There's often a running
commentary going on in the game
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and if somebody sort of suddenly
breaks about four players
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you know it will always
be Sir Stanley Matthews.
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He was the jinking winger or the
person that could beat people
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really easy.
The Messi of his day.
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That man was great.
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Very, very great man.
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More than the ones you
are reading in the paper,
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more than Pelé.
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He was a maestro.
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He was magic.
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Sir Stanley Matthews
was one of the
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greatest athletes of all time.
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Quite simply, he was a legend.
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I can't think of no
greater mythical figure
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in all British
sport than Matthews.
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In fact he wasn't just
football, he embraced anybody
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who would ever kicked a ball,
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battered a ball or run anything
in a competitive level at all.
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And even people who
didn't know sport,
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about the sport, but a few
in Britain embraced him
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as being a remarkable,
truly remarkable man.
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I used to play
with a little tennis ball
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against the wall.
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And I think that's where
I learned the ball control.
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And many time I used go
into the butcher shop
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and get a pig's bladder,
blow it up and play with that.
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And then many a time I played
at night when it was dark
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with a lamp post and the light,
I used to play like that.
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In 1915, when Stanley
Matthews is born,
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it's actually a
really extraordinary
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and very telling
moment in England.
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There are growing working
class expectation,
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the possibility of social
mobility just beginning
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to merge. and I think
that's a really important
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part of his story
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is that he is indisputably
of working class stuff.
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But he didn't work in a factory,
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his father didn't
work in a factory,
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they were sports people.
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His father was a
barber in Hanley,
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but also a well-known
amateur boxer.
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He was called Jack Matthews
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"The Fighting Barber of Hanley".
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Stanley Matthews was
immensely influenced
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by his father.
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His father, of course, had
been a very successful boxer.
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In one fight,
he took part in I think
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in the sporting club in London.
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It was possibly
the greatest fight
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in British boxing history.
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They were both on the floor
about three or four times
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and it ended up with
Jack Matthews winning it.
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The point about
that is that fight
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was that he didn't give up.
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That was the sort of spirit
that Stanley Matthews' father
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instilled in him.
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As a young boy, his father,
Jack, would take him down
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to the sports ground, the
football ground at Stoke City,
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which was the
Victoria Ground then.
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And on Saturday mornings they
used to have scratch races.
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And then his father,
knowing that Stan
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was a really quick runner,
would go around and take bets
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on his son winning,
which he duly did,
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and so Jack went home
with a pocketful of money
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thanks to his
speedy son Stanley.
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And in those days, Stanley
played at center half.
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On a Monday morning,
he'd go to school
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and Mr. Terry, the
headmaster then, said,
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"Matthews, come into
my office," he said,
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and I went in and he said,
"How do we go on Saturday?"
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He said, "We won 18 nil, sir."
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"18 nil?"
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He says, "Yes, sir."
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"How many did you
score, Matthews?"
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"Oh," he said, "I scored 10,"
and he reached into his pocket
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and he pulled out
six pence, he said,
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then he gave it to
him and he said,
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"Well done, keep that."
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He said, "You see,
I was a professional
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"even in those days."
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He signed when
he was 15.
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He's an office boy, but
actually he was known to be
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a fantastic player
even at that age.
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And although they trained
together as a team
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and did all the usual
things, Stan would then,
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even then go aside slightly
and just practice his sprints,
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practice his ball skills
and then he would stay
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afterwards as well.
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He would often even jog home
for a bit of light relief
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and home was a good
mile and a half away
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up a hill in Hanley for
lunch and then jog back again
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to do some more training
in the afternoon.
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And this was just unheard of.
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His teammates would've been
going to the Victoria Hotel
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just up the road for
a pint and socialize.
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Stan was a bit of a
loner in this sense,
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but he had this drive,
he had this incredible focus
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on what he wanted to achieve.
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He started playing for
the reserves and very quickly
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started to, people
started to notice
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he had a particular talent.
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So by the time he got
to his 17th birthday,
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Stoke signed him on £5 a week
as a professional player.
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Here's the oldest
player in league football,
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Bob McGrory, captain
of Stoke City.
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In front is JA
Johnson, outside left.
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Harry Davies, inside.
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Bobby Liddle, inside right.
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And Stan Matthews,
right-winger.
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He could've probably signed
for any team in the country
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at the time, he chose
as what's natural,
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to play for Stoke City
because that's the team
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that was represented, really
the city where he belonged.
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Stoke became a part of his
life and football became
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more and more part of his life,
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but it was very much
based in the community
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even to the extent that
he married Betty Vallance,
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the trainer's daughter who
he met when he was 15 or so.
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His position, because of his
speed and his ball control,
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was clearly a winger
of those days.
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Center-forwards in
those days tended to be
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like the sort of
battering big, strong guys
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who bullet their way through
the middle of the defense
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where the sort of a more
nimble footed players
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were natural wingers.
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He was a goal scorer
in his early days.
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In a junior game, he once scored
seven or eight goals in a match
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and he was a
regular goal scorer,
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but when he moved out to the
right-wing for some reason
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he decided that his job
was to provide the ball
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for others to score.
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There had been quite a lot
of disappointment in Stoke
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that although he was
only 20 as you say
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that he hadn't been
picked to play for England
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because he'd already been
performing extraordinarily
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for a young man for
Stoke up until that time.
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And I think it was
surprising that they left it
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quite as long as they did.
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There hadn't really
been a winger like it
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in British football
before and like
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they were still
trying to work him out
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and said they were
still slightly cautious
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about whether to pick him,
whether he would be able
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to cut it on the
international stage.
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With
40,000 cheering Welsh,
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no tougher international debut
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could've been chosen
for a boy of 19
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as Stanley Matthews, just
two years a professional,
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comes through his ordeal
with flying colors.
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He scored on his debut
over Wales, ironically,
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against a goalkeeper who was
his teammate at Stoke City,
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a goalkeeper called
Roy John, who allegedly
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never really forgave
Stan for that goal
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'cause it was the winning goal.
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He would then go on
to score a hat trick
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against Czechoslovakia in 1937,
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all of which was
captured on film
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has been around the
country in Pathé newsreels.
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The third
is handled by Matthews,
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Stoke City's brilliant winger.
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People loved this, they
loved the entertainment,
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commentators then
started to focus on him.
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They'd actually insert
segments about the skill
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of Stanley Matthews.
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You'll
notice when dribbling,
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his peculiar action of stopping
the ball and then proceeding.
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Stanley was picked up
as a star by the press
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quite early on and quite
often before any game.
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There'd always be
a big commentary
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about how is this
particular team,
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how will these particular
players gonna stop Matthews.
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On the
morning of the match,
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London is flooded with
10,000 German supporters
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out to enjoy themselves.
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That match generated
a huge amount of interest.
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They actually had
to lay on steamers
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to bring the crowds from Germany
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across the channel to Matthews.
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This was the biggest football
match he'd ever played in.
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He came against a
German called Munzenberg,
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and Munzenberg got
the better of him.
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No one had ever gotten
the better of him before.
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He lost his England
Cup and he was given
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quite a hard time by
the fans and the press
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and I think that sort
of hit him quite hard.
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But instead of
curling up and dying,
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he thought about
what had gone on,
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he thought about
what had happened.
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He studied Munzenberg.
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He waited for his opportunity.
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He takes on a very
rigorous training and diet
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in an era where most English
footballers are eating
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like their working
class contemporaries.
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The typical footballers'
diet, when he broke in
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to the Stoke City
first team in 1931,
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would have been pie and chips.
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You know, a lot
fried food because
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you're in a heavy industry and
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you need the calories
and a lot of beer
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because, of course,
a lot of beer.
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He had none of that.
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He would eat
vegetables on a Monday,
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certainly towards
the end of his career
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he would only drink a
specific type of tomato juice.
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He invented much of what
we now know as sports diet.
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If he felt he was
failing in any way,
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he would take it very
personally, he would come away,
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he would think how best
to approach that player
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or that team the next
time he met them.
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Cup final
enthusiasm prevailed in Berlin
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when England beat Germany
on the soccer field.
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All the courtesies are
observed before the stop.
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God save the King is played.
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In 1938, England played
Germany in Germany.
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There was considerable
disquiet and debate
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over whether they should give
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the characteristic Nazi salute.
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The FA had given
the clear instruction
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that all the English players
were to give the Nazi salute
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and it was either do
that or they never play
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for England again.
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We got to, I suppose, understand
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the political
circumstances at the time.
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They were playing just
pre-war when Britain
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was still trying to
appease Nazi Germany.
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Probably it was something
I think that he regretted.
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Well, retribution
was quite sweet.
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Stanley Matthews had
been doing his homework
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on Munzenberg and had been
harboring some memories
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from their previous encounter.
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And so he took Munzenberg
and the Germans down
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and he put that team into bed.
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When a player is reaching
the age of 24, 25
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they're probably at the peak
of their physical abilities,
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physical fitness and also
they're mature athletes
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and at that point, the
cruel irony is, of course,
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that war breaks out.
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In 1939, the Second
World War broke out
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and football stopped.
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When you
hear the warning signals
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take cover at once.
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You may hear a siren rising
and falling in pitch.
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The hooters sounding
short blasts.
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You know,
the five years we remember
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no street lighting,
food rationing,
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all the kids at
school were all thin.
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It was that period
where people looked for,
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what you might call
quick pleasures.
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They did have wartime fixtures,
they did go ahead with it.
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And Stan played for
a number of clubs.
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The English
in the white shirts
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and the Scotsmen navy
blue were well-matched.
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It had been almost like pre-war
days if there hadn't been
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a number of planes
flying around the stadium
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to remind us that
there's a war on.
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60,000 thirsty throats were
heard all over Manchester
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as Stanley Matthews
"The Wizard of Dribble"
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planted a free kick
on Lawton's head
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and the ball went
in for number two.
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Crowds were big
during the war.
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They were big.
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The grounds invariably
full because people
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had very few pleasures remember.
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And so it was a big attraction.
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He was posted in the
RAF to Blackpool
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and in those days you
could play anybody
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'cause it wasn't
official league football,
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it was wartime league
and so Stan was recruited
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to Blackpool's team
during the war.
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Matthews was laying
demonstration and exhibition
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games to maintain morale.
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But in terms of his
career progression
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and what he could
earn from the game,
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this is sort of devastating gap.
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The cruel
irony was that he never
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got the opportunity to display
this incredible potential
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that he had whilst
he was in his prime.
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And he has to wait
for a few years
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before he can start to play
truly competitive football
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against real strong
opposition again.
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You kind of ask
that question of
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what he would've been
like in those war years
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that were robbed from
him when he was probably
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at the absolute pinnacle
of physical condition,
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which is a great shame,
sporting-wise for him
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and for all who love football.
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His move of approaching
the fullback going left,
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fooling the fullback
and going right.
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Even though he did it
every time and you knew
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that's what he was going to
do, people still bought it.
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People talk about
the Matthews Move,
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but from what I can see there
were lots of Matthews Moves,
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I mean he wasn't just
the one-trick pony.
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He understood the game
and he understood that his role
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as this kind of live,
whip it like player
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was to beat his fullback,
get to the byline
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and then whip the ball across
to where strikers would be
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ready to head it
in or volley it in.
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He was a creator,
rather than a goal scorer.
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He wanted it, nothing
he loved better
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than get into the fullback,
jink one side the other,
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force the pace, fleet foot,
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crossing the ball and goal.
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Matthews to
Bentley and it's a goal.
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A beautiful header.
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One-all now.
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The myth about
Stanley Matthews
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which you must know,
or must have been told,
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is that he could cross
the ball so that the lace
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was facing outwards
and not inwards.
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And so Tom Dalton was asked,
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"Who is the better
crosser of the ball,
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"Finney or Matthews?"
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And he said, "Stan," because
he always crossed with the lace
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facing the goalkeeper."
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Well, wingers have always
been hugely important
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in football,
particularly for players,
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perhaps I myself, for example,
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a striker that likes
to play in the box.
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And if you can get a
winger that you know when
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he's gonna cross
it and obviously
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if he can be pretty
accurate with his crossing,
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that makes a huge difference.
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You can time your
runs, you can gamble
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on attacking apace knowing
that the chances are
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that that someone like
Matthews could beat someone
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and then just whip in that
space that you attack.
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As his star rose
and he was soon
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obviously for Stoke
turns out for England,
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it's Stan that people
began to see him regularly
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00:21:46,848 --> 00:21:50,109
in cinema reports,
Pathé News, Pathé Sports
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00:21:50,111 --> 00:21:51,838
which was a very big deal
as people are thinking,
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they see this guy
is not like anything
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00:21:53,568 --> 00:21:55,262
we've really seen before.
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Verve, style, gymnastics,
trickery, magic, wizardry
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this is not the stuff of
which English footballer
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00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:02,494
has traditionally been made.
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He invented a lot
of what we still see
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00:22:08,033 --> 00:22:10,270
on the football pitch now
came from Stanley Matthews.
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He's still
outside the penalty area
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when he shoots.
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And what a sizzling goal it is.
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The true
beauty of football
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is that a clever
little slight man
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can beat a guy who
appears twice his size
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and make him look stupid
and defy the bullies.
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And Matthews did that.
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He had that real facility
to make dribbling look easy
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which, it's not.
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He did more things in one game
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than I would do in my
entire career in this,
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in terms of dribbling
past people.
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He didn't need
to say Matthews
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on the back of his shirt,
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he just needed a seven
and red and white stripes.
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That's all he needed.
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Here is Matthews,
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number seven in stripes.
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And just watch him go.
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Whatever we did when we played
football or wherever it was
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we get that ringing out,
and no matter what game it was,
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"Who do you think it was,"
Stanley Matthews.
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There was just
something about
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Matthews' trickery
that made it unique,
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artistic and gave
it a star quality.
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He became
the nation's player.
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And when it came to
the end of the war,
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Blackpool were very
keen to keep him
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and he was very keen to stay.
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00:23:35,844 --> 00:23:38,915
Stan was disenchanted so much
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00:23:38,917 --> 00:23:40,546
and Blackpool were
keen to get him here
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00:23:40,548 --> 00:23:43,397
because he'd been a big
draw during wartime.
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He was falling out with
the Stoke board at the time
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00:23:49,733 --> 00:23:53,570
and particularly the
Stoke manager Bob McGrory.
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00:23:53,572 --> 00:23:57,794
I think Bob McGrory was
a very stern manager.
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00:23:57,796 --> 00:24:00,486
He didn't always
appreciate Stanley.
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00:24:01,957 --> 00:24:03,299
When Matthews
started playing,
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00:24:03,301 --> 00:24:05,091
McGrory was still a player
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00:24:05,093 --> 00:24:07,012
and Matthews was
playing with them
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00:24:07,014 --> 00:24:09,603
and Matthews kept McGrory's
great mate out of the team.
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00:24:09,605 --> 00:24:13,444
I think that set him
against Matthews.
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00:24:13,446 --> 00:24:15,076
He was former
Stoke captain.
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00:24:15,078 --> 00:24:16,900
When he became manager,
he was a bit disturbed
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00:24:16,902 --> 00:24:19,843
by the fact that the limelight
was always on Sir Stanley
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00:24:19,845 --> 00:24:22,084
and perhaps was a bit
envious of the attention
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00:24:22,086 --> 00:24:26,374
that Stanley got over
and above himself.
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00:24:29,446 --> 00:24:33,925
McGrory was old school
and Matthews was a young,
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00:24:33,927 --> 00:24:37,796
ambitious player aware of
his talent and not afraid,
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00:24:37,798 --> 00:24:39,685
and he just couldn't take it.
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00:24:39,687 --> 00:24:41,700
He wouldn't let
him play his own game
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00:24:41,702 --> 00:24:44,486
and Stanley was all about
expressing his own talent.
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00:24:45,926 --> 00:24:49,381
Rumors of this disquiet,
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00:24:49,383 --> 00:24:51,559
this unrest
had got around the city.
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The town hall in Stoke
was packed with people
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00:24:56,936 --> 00:24:59,109
the night that they had
a meeting about it all.
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There was hell up in
the whole of the potteries
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00:25:01,990 --> 00:25:03,429
of Stoke-on-Trent.
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00:25:03,431 --> 00:25:04,868
The whole city showed
for a mass meeting,
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00:25:04,870 --> 00:25:07,526
you couldn't get in for people
were queing all the way down
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00:25:07,528 --> 00:25:11,209
to protest about this manager
wanting to get rid of Stan.
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00:25:14,568 --> 00:25:18,533
It was quite a big sign of
how he was already appreciated
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00:25:18,535 --> 00:25:21,895
as being something a bit beyond
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00:25:21,897 --> 00:25:26,119
to bring that reaction
from the city.
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00:25:26,121 --> 00:25:28,614
For a couple of years,
there was no movement
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00:25:28,616 --> 00:25:30,854
because Stan and
McGrory seem to have
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00:25:30,856 --> 00:25:34,087
sort of an uneasy peace
and he stayed there.
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00:25:34,089 --> 00:25:37,031
But then after a
game at Hampden Park
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00:25:37,033 --> 00:25:39,271
in the close season of 1947,
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00:25:39,273 --> 00:25:41,350
Joe Smith managed
to secure his signature
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00:25:41,352 --> 00:25:44,168
and he joined Blackpool
on an official basis
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00:25:44,170 --> 00:25:46,250
for the following season.
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00:25:56,682 --> 00:25:58,728
We moved to Blackpool
when my father
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00:25:58,730 --> 00:26:00,715
played for Blackpool.
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00:26:05,225 --> 00:26:07,113
My pop, we call him pop,
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00:26:07,115 --> 00:26:11,592
was a great inspirational
father to have.
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00:26:11,594 --> 00:26:13,992
He was very loving, very kind,
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00:26:13,994 --> 00:26:17,962
and also strict, disciplined
but in a quiet way.
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00:26:20,458 --> 00:26:23,466
He had tremendous warmth.
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00:26:25,611 --> 00:26:31,017
He would meet people in
the street and talk to them.
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00:26:31,019 --> 00:26:32,937
Growing up,
it was just, it was normal.
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00:26:32,939 --> 00:26:35,848
I mean nobody, you didn't
think anything about it,
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00:26:35,850 --> 00:26:37,449
when you are nine,
10 years of age
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00:26:37,451 --> 00:26:38,697
your father was your father.
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00:26:38,699 --> 00:26:40,937
The fact that he was an
unbelievable soccer player
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00:26:40,939 --> 00:26:43,752
didn't really dawn on you.
444
00:26:43,754 --> 00:26:46,283
It was just a normal household.
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00:26:47,691 --> 00:26:49,513
Pop did his best to keep
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00:26:49,515 --> 00:26:51,593
us out of the limelight.
447
00:26:51,595 --> 00:26:55,082
We'd go out for walk on
the Promenade at Blackpool
448
00:26:55,084 --> 00:26:59,210
and pop would wear
a trilby in disguise
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00:26:59,212 --> 00:27:01,867
so nobody would recognize him.
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00:27:02,827 --> 00:27:06,634
It never worked.
451
00:27:06,636 --> 00:27:10,570
He would say, "You can be the
best surgeon in the world,
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00:27:10,572 --> 00:27:13,387
or you can be the best
hairdresser in the world
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00:27:13,389 --> 00:27:15,307
or the best in anything you do,
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00:27:15,309 --> 00:27:18,315
but if you are not
warm with people
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00:27:18,317 --> 00:27:21,774
you're not gonna have a
successful and happy life."
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00:27:26,894 --> 00:27:29,868
He become acquainted and
familiar with Blackpool.
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00:27:29,870 --> 00:27:35,372
I think he liked the
environment and the lifestyle.
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00:27:35,374 --> 00:27:37,964
He loved the fact that
he could exercise on the beach
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00:27:37,966 --> 00:27:41,419
that he described he could open
his windows in the morning,
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00:27:41,421 --> 00:27:43,979
do his deep breathing
exercises every morning
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00:27:43,981 --> 00:27:45,966
and breathe in the sea air.
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00:27:47,822 --> 00:27:50,796
Particularly as he was
advancing in his career,
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00:27:50,798 --> 00:27:52,813
I think he thought
that Blackpool
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00:27:52,815 --> 00:27:56,493
probably was a place,
in term of his,
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00:27:56,495 --> 00:27:59,116
the place that gave
him and the environment
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00:27:59,118 --> 00:28:01,771
where he could excel
in terms of the opportunity
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00:28:01,773 --> 00:28:05,423
he had to keep fit
and healthy and strong.
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00:28:07,406 --> 00:28:10,350
His fitness routine
was way ahead of its time.
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00:28:12,335 --> 00:28:14,446
He used to get up
at the crack of dawn
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00:28:14,448 --> 00:28:16,652
and go running
on Blackpool beach.
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00:28:16,654 --> 00:28:20,557
It should be like 6:30
or seven o'clock in the morning.
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00:28:20,559 --> 00:28:22,509
This was before
he'd go to the ground
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00:28:22,511 --> 00:28:25,677
to train officially
with the team.
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00:28:25,679 --> 00:28:29,165
I've seen Stan on
the beach 'cause you knew that
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00:28:29,167 --> 00:28:31,054
if you went down some
early morning to school
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00:28:31,056 --> 00:28:33,294
holiday or whatever
you'd perhaps catch Stan
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00:28:33,296 --> 00:28:34,989
running up the beach
in a track suit
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00:28:34,991 --> 00:28:36,077
and he'd be running
up and down the beach
479
00:28:36,079 --> 00:28:37,837
on his down doing a few sprints.
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00:28:37,839 --> 00:28:40,110
He'd sprint for ten
yards, then he'd run
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00:28:40,112 --> 00:28:44,237
and he'd sprint and he'd run
or jog and whatever.
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00:28:44,239 --> 00:28:45,454
And he always said that was it.
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00:28:45,456 --> 00:28:47,694
He said, "Those first
ten yards off the mark
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00:28:47,696 --> 00:28:49,488
are the most important."
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00:28:50,895 --> 00:28:54,126
He was dedicated to his game
486
00:28:54,128 --> 00:28:56,206
and his, um...
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00:28:56,208 --> 00:28:57,902
eating regime as well.
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00:28:57,904 --> 00:29:00,558
So Stan obviously was,
as a physical specimen,
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00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:03,758
he was quite fortunate
that his father was a boxer
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00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:06,319
and boxing was one of
the sports which was very
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00:29:06,321 --> 00:29:09,550
forward-thinking in terms
of training methods.
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00:29:09,552 --> 00:29:11,440
And that's obviously
ingrained into Stanley
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00:29:11,442 --> 00:29:14,097
from his father at an early age.
494
00:29:15,601 --> 00:29:19,248
It's said that when
Jack Matthews knew he was dying
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00:29:19,250 --> 00:29:21,168
he called Stanley to his bedside
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00:29:21,170 --> 00:29:22,959
and made him promise two things.
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00:29:22,961 --> 00:29:25,039
One was to look after his mother
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00:29:25,041 --> 00:29:29,008
and the other one was to win
an FA Cup medal for him,
499
00:29:29,010 --> 00:29:30,671
an FA Cup Winners Medal for him.
500
00:29:30,673 --> 00:29:32,528
The FA Cup is
still a huge event,
501
00:29:32,530 --> 00:29:33,680
still a massive FA Cup Final,
502
00:29:33,682 --> 00:29:35,728
still one of the great
days of the season
503
00:29:35,730 --> 00:29:38,577
but it's not the only circus
in town like it once was.
504
00:29:38,579 --> 00:29:40,624
But when I grew up it was,
it was the big thing,
505
00:29:40,626 --> 00:29:42,288
it was the Cup Final day.
506
00:29:42,290 --> 00:29:44,080
You get up in the
morning, as a little kid
507
00:29:44,082 --> 00:29:45,329
you'd switch the television
on at nine o'clock
508
00:29:45,331 --> 00:29:46,928
in the morning,
509
00:29:46,930 --> 00:29:48,113
you had a beautiful day
and then the cup final.
510
00:29:48,115 --> 00:29:50,960
And it was pretty much
really the only game
511
00:29:50,962 --> 00:29:52,337
of football you would see.
512
00:29:52,339 --> 00:29:55,920
The FA Cup was
the biggest prize
513
00:29:55,922 --> 00:29:58,512
in football,
certainly in England.
514
00:29:58,514 --> 00:30:01,491
And it was, the FA Cup Final
was watched all over the world.
515
00:30:02,738 --> 00:30:04,530
I think the
Blackpool philosophy
516
00:30:04,532 --> 00:30:07,344
of bringing in talented
players and giving the freedom,
517
00:30:07,346 --> 00:30:11,024
giving them the freedom
to shine, paid off.
518
00:30:11,026 --> 00:30:12,818
They were in the
first tier of football
519
00:30:12,820 --> 00:30:14,994
in the first division,
as it was then called,
520
00:30:14,996 --> 00:30:17,009
so they were a strong
team but they did reach
521
00:30:17,011 --> 00:30:18,931
the Cup Final in 1948.
522
00:30:23,445 --> 00:30:24,721
The old
Lancashire finalists
523
00:30:24,723 --> 00:30:26,481
take the field of Wembley.
524
00:30:26,483 --> 00:30:28,529
Manchester United in dark
shirts, Blackpool in white.
525
00:30:28,531 --> 00:30:30,259
Manchester United
were the top club
526
00:30:30,261 --> 00:30:31,698
and they were favorites,
but Blackpool
527
00:30:31,700 --> 00:30:33,137
were expected to give
them a good game.
528
00:30:33,139 --> 00:30:34,929
Manchester
kickoff renowned slow starters.
529
00:30:34,931 --> 00:30:37,619
Their match winning attack
seems to have lost the rhythm
530
00:30:37,621 --> 00:30:39,699
that has brought them
along the road to Wembley.
531
00:30:39,701 --> 00:30:42,099
And then Shimwell
scored an early penalty,
532
00:30:42,101 --> 00:30:44,658
the first fullback
to score a penalty at Wembley.
533
00:30:44,660 --> 00:30:46,388
As the
crowd rise to cheer,
534
00:30:46,390 --> 00:30:47,634
Eddie Shimwell drives it home
535
00:30:47,636 --> 00:30:49,653
to give the "seasiders" a lead.
536
00:30:51,701 --> 00:30:53,460
United equalized,
but before half time
537
00:30:53,462 --> 00:30:55,411
we made it two-one,
Morty scored.
538
00:30:55,413 --> 00:30:56,724
From a free-kick
539
00:30:56,726 --> 00:30:58,036
and a seemingly
impossible angle,
540
00:30:58,038 --> 00:31:00,468
Stanley Mortensen
whips in a goal
541
00:31:00,470 --> 00:31:02,002
to give Blackpool
the halftime lead.
542
00:31:03,381 --> 00:31:04,882
The game turned
in the second half,
543
00:31:04,884 --> 00:31:06,290
then United were
far the better side.
544
00:31:06,292 --> 00:31:07,636
Charlie
Mitten number 11
545
00:31:07,638 --> 00:31:10,322
starts off United's
winning attack.
546
00:31:10,324 --> 00:31:12,403
And from Rowley's power,
Stan Pearson scores the goal
547
00:31:12,405 --> 00:31:13,556
that gives Manchester the cup.
548
00:31:15,510 --> 00:31:16,948
They lost four-two.
549
00:31:16,950 --> 00:31:21,045
People thought, "Well, Stan's
33, he's coming to the end,
550
00:31:21,047 --> 00:31:23,027
"that might have been
his last chance."
551
00:31:23,029 --> 00:31:26,774
But, no, three years later,
1951, they made the final again.
552
00:31:30,678 --> 00:31:32,341
It's a no
Northern cup final as Blackpool
553
00:31:32,343 --> 00:31:35,125
and Newcastle United take
the field at Wembley.
554
00:31:35,127 --> 00:31:37,460
Newcastle playing in
their famous magpie colors
555
00:31:37,462 --> 00:31:39,380
have twice won
the cup at Wembley.
556
00:31:39,382 --> 00:31:41,364
Blackpool have yet to succeed.
557
00:31:41,366 --> 00:31:42,836
And here's Stanley
with one more chance
558
00:31:42,838 --> 00:31:45,783
to get that medal
he wants so badly.
559
00:31:49,462 --> 00:31:51,028
Matthews again.
560
00:31:51,030 --> 00:31:52,501
He passes to Mortensen
and the old man gets going.
561
00:31:52,503 --> 00:31:55,416
Stanley's going
through like an eel.
562
00:32:00,376 --> 00:32:03,253
Blackpool appeal but
Milburn runs on and shoots
563
00:32:03,255 --> 00:32:04,118
and it's a goal!
564
00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:06,294
Newcastle one-up.
565
00:32:10,392 --> 00:32:12,182
Matthews again.
566
00:32:12,184 --> 00:32:13,621
He's trying every trick he
knows to get Blackpool going.
567
00:32:13,623 --> 00:32:16,118
Even the Newcastle
side wish he could have
568
00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:18,809
a cup winners medal
so long as they win.
569
00:32:26,488 --> 00:32:29,112
He fires in a terrific shot.
570
00:32:29,114 --> 00:32:30,807
And the Geordies
have won the cup
571
00:32:30,809 --> 00:32:33,078
for the third time at Wembley.
572
00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:35,254
Again, it's a runner's
up medal for Stanley.
573
00:32:35,256 --> 00:32:37,754
But it's well done
Newcastle and a brilliant...
574
00:32:43,738 --> 00:32:45,431
He came
home from that match
575
00:32:45,433 --> 00:32:48,441
utterly depressed
and crestfallen.
576
00:32:50,362 --> 00:32:52,471
He's now 36,
surely that's the end.
577
00:32:52,473 --> 00:32:55,063
He's gone beyond the age
that most footballers
578
00:32:55,065 --> 00:32:56,375
would've finished at,
not the least,
579
00:32:56,377 --> 00:32:59,160
because of the types of
injuries that they picked up.
580
00:32:59,162 --> 00:33:02,872
However, he was so focused
on what he was going to do
581
00:33:02,874 --> 00:33:04,887
that he continued training.
582
00:33:28,890 --> 00:33:30,264
There was lots of thought
583
00:33:30,266 --> 00:33:32,602
that went into
how he would train
584
00:33:32,604 --> 00:33:34,745
in order to achieve his goal.
585
00:33:34,747 --> 00:33:37,722
And this mark amounted
to something different.
586
00:33:37,724 --> 00:33:41,563
Two years later, Blackpool
reached the final again.
587
00:33:55,675 --> 00:33:59,355
Wembley's a big,
it was a big stadium.
588
00:33:59,357 --> 00:34:00,698
Everything else
didn't matter.
589
00:34:00,700 --> 00:34:02,363
Football-wise that mattered
590
00:34:02,365 --> 00:34:04,251
to have that FA
Cup Winners Medal.
591
00:34:04,253 --> 00:34:08,666
It was a very big event in
England in the FA Cup Final,
592
00:34:08,668 --> 00:34:11,034
the championship
in the FA Cup Final
593
00:34:11,036 --> 00:34:14,973
was the biggest event
in soccer at the time.
594
00:34:16,668 --> 00:34:19,899
It's quite a warm,
close day.
595
00:34:19,901 --> 00:34:22,524
Very humid.
596
00:34:22,526 --> 00:34:26,558
Coming to Wembley,
the crowd actually pouring in.
597
00:34:32,381 --> 00:34:36,252
Then we get our coach
in the dressing room.
598
00:34:36,254 --> 00:34:40,347
And then we go out of,
kind of come out of a dungeon,
599
00:34:40,349 --> 00:34:42,653
you used to in the old one,
600
00:34:42,655 --> 00:34:46,523
and up the steps
to the ground level.
601
00:34:49,759 --> 00:34:51,391
100,000 people.
602
00:34:53,119 --> 00:34:54,269
I don't know about nerves,
603
00:34:54,271 --> 00:34:56,863
I don't think there was
a lot of nerves really.
604
00:34:59,070 --> 00:35:03,453
So we got ready and
Joe Smith said something to us,
605
00:35:03,455 --> 00:35:05,885
I think he said, "Win".
606
00:35:05,887 --> 00:35:07,262
He never said so much.
607
00:35:07,264 --> 00:35:08,989
I mean these are
experienced players.
608
00:35:08,991 --> 00:35:10,524
They're all lined up.
609
00:35:10,526 --> 00:35:11,965
Blackpool in the dark
shirts kicking off
610
00:35:11,967 --> 00:35:15,356
for this 1953 Cup
Final and away they go.
611
00:35:15,358 --> 00:35:17,533
There is little
Ernie Taylor himself.
612
00:35:17,535 --> 00:35:19,389
Bolton has
the likes of Nat Lofthouse,
613
00:35:19,391 --> 00:35:22,142
the England center-forward,
and Blackpool's the
614
00:35:22,144 --> 00:35:24,958
underdogs really
going into that game.
615
00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:27,933
Bolton were expected to win.
616
00:35:27,935 --> 00:35:29,599
Now there
is Nat Lofthouse,
617
00:35:29,601 --> 00:35:30,879
the footballer of the year.
618
00:35:30,881 --> 00:35:33,598
Bolton Wanderer had
a great center-forward
619
00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:35,869
in Nat Lofthouse,
a wonderful player.
620
00:35:35,871 --> 00:35:38,366
When he was on the field
you always had a chance
621
00:35:38,368 --> 00:35:40,286
of winning a game.
622
00:35:40,288 --> 00:35:42,141
Doug Holden
to Lofthouse.
623
00:35:42,143 --> 00:35:45,213
And so the first thing
was to try and get it to him
624
00:35:45,215 --> 00:35:46,813
when you're on the field.
625
00:35:46,815 --> 00:35:47,870
Hold it,
a lovely chance on the way.
626
00:35:47,872 --> 00:35:50,881
He's gone through to Hassall,
627
00:35:52,353 --> 00:35:53,342
Lofthouse.
628
00:35:53,344 --> 00:35:54,881
It's a goal!
629
00:35:57,633 --> 00:36:00,383
Well, I used to be a goalkeeper
630
00:36:00,385 --> 00:36:03,295
and my heart goes out
now to George Farm,
631
00:36:03,297 --> 00:36:06,176
the Scottish international
Blackpool goalkeeper.
632
00:36:06,178 --> 00:36:09,088
One nil for Bolton
after 75 seconds then.
633
00:36:09,090 --> 00:36:10,304
And then Morty scored,
634
00:36:10,306 --> 00:36:11,775
Stan Mortensen.
635
00:36:11,777 --> 00:36:13,984
Mortensen's
got a wonderful chance,
636
00:36:13,986 --> 00:36:15,424
he must score!
637
00:36:15,426 --> 00:36:16,448
It's a goal!
638
00:36:16,450 --> 00:36:19,520
Hassall! Hassall has scored!
639
00:36:19,522 --> 00:36:20,928
But the game
turns right away.
640
00:36:20,930 --> 00:36:22,305
Bolton has
looked the better team
641
00:36:22,307 --> 00:36:24,673
right the way through
the first half.
642
00:36:24,675 --> 00:36:26,272
In the Blackpool goal,
Farm faces a shot from Langton,
643
00:36:26,274 --> 00:36:27,456
he and Lofthouse missed.
644
00:36:27,458 --> 00:36:28,927
And there's another one.
645
00:36:28,929 --> 00:36:30,303
Bolton now two,
Blackpool still one.
646
00:36:30,305 --> 00:36:34,656
The 1953 FA Cup Final went
script for Bolton Wanderers.
647
00:36:34,658 --> 00:36:37,794
From the right
wing, Doug Holden centers.
648
00:36:38,819 --> 00:36:40,547
It's a goal, goal!
649
00:36:42,659 --> 00:36:45,441
Three-one, looks all
over for Blackpool.
650
00:36:45,443 --> 00:36:47,713
We were very well on the way to
winning the game at that time.
651
00:36:47,715 --> 00:36:51,553
They were three-one up
and playing really well.
652
00:36:51,555 --> 00:36:54,400
Now then, Stanley,
you have a lot of work cut out.
653
00:36:54,402 --> 00:36:56,098
You're two goals behind.
654
00:36:56,100 --> 00:36:57,922
Three-one down
with 20 minutes to go
655
00:36:57,924 --> 00:37:00,546
looked pretty bleak.
656
00:37:00,548 --> 00:37:02,242
We'd given up hope,
thought that's it.
657
00:37:02,244 --> 00:37:04,896
Cyril Robinson
must be seeing his hopes
658
00:37:04,898 --> 00:37:06,337
of sensational cup final medal,
659
00:37:06,339 --> 00:37:07,970
cup winners
medal rather, fading.
660
00:37:07,972 --> 00:37:10,722
Three-one down,
661
00:37:10,724 --> 00:37:15,425
I wonder I can get bet
on Bolton.
662
00:37:15,427 --> 00:37:18,371
You know, it's like
a bloody certainty to me.
663
00:37:18,373 --> 00:37:19,969
Blackpool
have fallen away very badly
664
00:37:19,971 --> 00:37:22,306
now I thought they were
getting on top at one time.
665
00:37:22,308 --> 00:37:24,097
History was gonna
repeat itself again
666
00:37:24,099 --> 00:37:25,473
and for one's sense of purposes
667
00:37:25,475 --> 00:37:27,075
it looked like fate
was never gonna hand
668
00:37:27,077 --> 00:37:28,835
Stanley Matthews
that winners medal.
669
00:37:28,837 --> 00:37:30,978
There's only three
quarters of game had gone
670
00:37:30,980 --> 00:37:32,642
with three-one in front.
671
00:37:32,644 --> 00:37:35,813
We thought we're
all cut and dried.
672
00:37:37,445 --> 00:37:39,331
You know,
they were losing badly
673
00:37:39,333 --> 00:37:42,403
and I think something inside
Stanley must have said,
674
00:37:42,405 --> 00:37:44,996
"This is the last
change I'm gonna get."
675
00:37:44,998 --> 00:37:46,372
There's Matthews,
the man everyone,
676
00:37:46,374 --> 00:37:47,939
even the Bolton supporters,
677
00:37:47,941 --> 00:37:49,284
would love to see get
a cup winners medal.
678
00:37:49,286 --> 00:37:53,315
There's a moment somewhere,
some point at three-one,
679
00:37:53,317 --> 00:37:54,914
something just
must have clicked.
680
00:37:54,916 --> 00:37:56,291
Surely the greatest
footballer of all time,
681
00:37:56,293 --> 00:37:58,851
certainly the greatest
I've ever seen.
682
00:37:58,853 --> 00:38:01,411
Then or manager says, "Come on
lads, what are you doing?
683
00:38:01,413 --> 00:38:02,724
Get this ball to Matthews."
684
00:38:02,726 --> 00:38:04,451
You know, "Get the ball.
685
00:38:04,453 --> 00:38:06,116
You can do it, you can do it."
686
00:38:06,118 --> 00:38:07,876
There's Billy Moir,
the Bolton captain,
687
00:38:07,878 --> 00:38:10,373
he must be pretty confident
he'd be carrying that cup,
688
00:38:10,375 --> 00:38:12,036
never mind the
football any minute,
689
00:38:12,038 --> 00:38:13,284
in about 30 minutes time.
690
00:38:13,286 --> 00:38:15,847
Enter Stanley Matthews.
691
00:38:16,998 --> 00:38:21,732
Stanley Matthews
changed the game.
692
00:38:21,734 --> 00:38:25,412
He suddenly began to really
run at the Bolton defense.
693
00:38:25,414 --> 00:38:28,324
He was getting to the byline
with that trademark move.
694
00:38:28,326 --> 00:38:30,533
He was pinging
the ball at across.
695
00:38:30,535 --> 00:38:33,380
Matthews took
off down the wing,
696
00:38:33,382 --> 00:38:35,174
Matthews crossed
those balls in.
697
00:38:35,176 --> 00:38:38,118
Matthews used his talent,
his grace, his art,
698
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:40,070
everything that
were lay within him
699
00:38:40,072 --> 00:38:41,798
all came together in that match.
700
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:45,510
We don't need
to identify him doing it.
701
00:38:45,512 --> 00:38:49,541
Look at that speed of him.
702
00:38:49,543 --> 00:38:53,797
Matthews the last quarter
of an hour took us to pieces.
703
00:38:53,799 --> 00:38:56,391
And Matthews
is clean through now.
704
00:39:04,359 --> 00:39:06,022
Such a wonderful
body swerve really,
705
00:39:06,024 --> 00:39:07,941
the fullback just didn't
know what to do with it.
706
00:39:07,943 --> 00:39:10,470
In that last
half of the game,
707
00:39:10,472 --> 00:39:13,415
he must have drawn on
everything that he had
708
00:39:13,417 --> 00:39:15,879
on that one last
throw of the dice.
709
00:39:15,881 --> 00:39:18,313
There's
Matthews, number seven.
710
00:39:21,096 --> 00:39:24,201
Look at the speed of that
man and they say it's slow.
711
00:39:25,258 --> 00:39:28,103
He's done it, it's in!
712
00:39:28,105 --> 00:39:29,446
With Stanley movements.
713
00:39:29,448 --> 00:39:30,727
Bolton have the
tremendous struggle
714
00:39:30,729 --> 00:39:33,767
to hold on to
this one lead now.
715
00:39:33,769 --> 00:39:37,672
There was Stan, ripping
the Bolton defense to shreds.
716
00:39:37,674 --> 00:39:41,480
It was as if there was this
tide bringing Blackpool
717
00:39:41,482 --> 00:39:44,135
towards an inevitable,
inexorable victory.
718
00:39:44,137 --> 00:39:46,664
And I can imagine you could
feel it around the nation
719
00:39:46,666 --> 00:39:47,848
that people were urging them on
720
00:39:47,850 --> 00:39:50,729
through this new medium
of television screens
721
00:39:50,731 --> 00:39:53,001
which they've never had
in their homes before.
722
00:39:53,003 --> 00:39:54,120
He knew
the strength of mind
723
00:39:54,122 --> 00:39:55,720
and the strength of character
724
00:39:55,722 --> 00:39:57,833
and that's what Stanley
Matthews displayed
725
00:39:57,835 --> 00:40:00,743
on that afternoon at Wembley.
726
00:40:00,745 --> 00:40:02,921
The Wembley pitch
was famous for sapping strength
727
00:40:02,923 --> 00:40:05,257
out of players and as
players would get tired
728
00:40:05,259 --> 00:40:07,080
towards the end of the game
729
00:40:07,082 --> 00:40:09,641
he could come into his own
if he'd retained his fitness
730
00:40:09,643 --> 00:40:11,305
and he was incredibly fit.
731
00:40:11,307 --> 00:40:13,993
Matthews inside
left now, good gracious.
732
00:40:13,995 --> 00:40:15,560
And Stanley popping
up all over the place.
733
00:40:15,562 --> 00:40:17,065
I think he must get
underneath the ground
734
00:40:17,067 --> 00:40:19,049
and pop up through
a hole or something.
735
00:40:19,051 --> 00:40:20,874
Matthews inside left again.
736
00:40:20,876 --> 00:40:23,624
Can he goal a score himself?
737
00:40:23,626 --> 00:40:25,770
An offside, offside
the outside left,
738
00:40:25,772 --> 00:40:27,401
number eleven, Perry.
739
00:40:27,403 --> 00:40:28,617
It must have
been minute some time
740
00:40:28,619 --> 00:40:31,116
when Mortensen got a free-kick.
741
00:40:32,395 --> 00:40:33,866
There's a foul.
742
00:40:33,868 --> 00:40:35,273
One of the players
took quite a knock
743
00:40:35,275 --> 00:40:37,322
and the ref awards
Blackpool a free-kick.
744
00:40:37,324 --> 00:40:38,825
Free-kick, for Blackpool,
745
00:40:38,827 --> 00:40:41,994
just on the edge of
the penalty area.
746
00:40:41,996 --> 00:40:43,913
My hour watch, two and
a half minutes to go,
747
00:40:43,915 --> 00:40:46,634
Bolton three, Blackpool two.
748
00:40:46,636 --> 00:40:48,557
Mortensen going to take it.
749
00:40:50,477 --> 00:40:52,554
There he is, Mortensen.
750
00:40:52,556 --> 00:40:55,435
It's a lovely goal!
751
00:40:55,437 --> 00:40:58,059
Suddenly
Blackpool were level.
752
00:40:58,061 --> 00:41:00,555
It's funny me saying
to Jackie Mudie,
753
00:41:00,557 --> 00:41:01,643
played inside left,
754
00:41:01,645 --> 00:41:05,738
and I said to him,
"We're gonna win."
755
00:41:05,740 --> 00:41:07,469
Now that's amazing!
756
00:41:10,572 --> 00:41:12,780
Every Bolton man
except Lofthouse is in
757
00:41:12,782 --> 00:41:14,922
the penalty area
this should well...
758
00:41:14,924 --> 00:41:17,643
Then come the last minute,
it's still three-three,
759
00:41:17,645 --> 00:41:20,110
it could be going
into extra time.
760
00:41:22,606 --> 00:41:23,595
There is
the man who's really
761
00:41:23,597 --> 00:41:25,196
fighting for his country.
762
00:41:25,198 --> 00:41:27,724
Will he score the
winning goal now himself?
763
00:41:27,726 --> 00:41:29,709
If you watched the film,
you can see him look up.
764
00:41:29,711 --> 00:41:33,710
At the point he looks up,
he actually slips.
765
00:41:36,718 --> 00:41:39,436
He gets to the byline,
pulls it back
766
00:41:39,438 --> 00:41:42,348
and there was Bill Perry to
shoot home for four-three.
767
00:41:48,942 --> 00:41:51,567
Perry! What a final!
768
00:41:53,838 --> 00:41:55,981
Just look at the smoke
and just look at the people.
769
00:41:55,983 --> 00:41:57,869
Four-three.
770
00:41:57,871 --> 00:41:59,340
Blow the whistle, ref.
771
00:41:59,342 --> 00:42:00,269
Every
Bolton player now
772
00:42:00,271 --> 00:42:02,381
except the two fullbacks and...
773
00:42:02,383 --> 00:42:03,917
There it is.
774
00:42:03,919 --> 00:42:06,381
Euphoria,
after we won the cup.
775
00:42:06,383 --> 00:42:08,014
And
where's Stanley Matthews?
776
00:42:08,016 --> 00:42:10,444
There's Joe Smith running
and there's Stanley!
777
00:42:10,446 --> 00:42:13,550
At long last he's done it.
778
00:42:13,552 --> 00:42:15,952
And everybody cheering him.
779
00:42:22,608 --> 00:42:25,517
So Stanley was...
and there is Her Majesty.
780
00:42:25,519 --> 00:42:28,593
And so Stanley was one of
the greatest of players.
781
00:42:36,367 --> 00:42:38,030
There he is, Matthews.
782
00:43:27,410 --> 00:43:30,673
Listen, ladies and gentlemen...
783
00:43:30,675 --> 00:43:33,488
So today with Harry
784
00:43:33,490 --> 00:43:36,592
and I do want to say
what a wonderful reception
785
00:43:36,594 --> 00:43:40,178
you had given us and
I also want to say
786
00:43:40,180 --> 00:43:43,250
that I am told that,
by one or two people,
787
00:43:43,252 --> 00:43:44,688
that I was the match winner.
788
00:43:44,690 --> 00:43:46,609
As a matter of fact
I don't believe that
789
00:43:46,611 --> 00:43:48,945
for the simple
reason we have here
790
00:43:48,947 --> 00:43:50,066
11 match winners.
791
00:43:52,787 --> 00:43:55,697
He took in the
celebrity side of it
792
00:43:55,699 --> 00:43:58,673
to a huge extent which
sets him so far apart.
793
00:43:58,675 --> 00:44:01,299
Possibly the nearest
you'd get to it
794
00:44:01,301 --> 00:44:05,842
in terms of a global
English footballer
795
00:44:05,844 --> 00:44:09,137
in the modern era will
probably be David Beckham.
796
00:44:09,139 --> 00:44:11,346
He had deals with
cigarette manufacturers,
797
00:44:11,348 --> 00:44:13,073
particularly the brand Craven A,
798
00:44:13,075 --> 00:44:16,596
he had deals with
boots manufacturers.
799
00:44:17,909 --> 00:44:20,594
He was invited
to go and play in Africa
800
00:44:20,596 --> 00:44:21,842
and you sort of think,
801
00:44:21,844 --> 00:44:23,762
"Well, how the hell did
they know him in Africa?"
802
00:44:23,764 --> 00:44:26,514
It's because no other
footballer's fame spread
803
00:44:26,516 --> 00:44:28,466
like Matthews' fame.
804
00:44:28,468 --> 00:44:30,386
You know,
you can look at a sportsman
805
00:44:30,388 --> 00:44:32,467
and people get called heroes
for having great talent
806
00:44:32,469 --> 00:44:34,610
and perhaps deservedly so.
807
00:44:34,612 --> 00:44:38,003
But he was a hero because not
only did he have the talent
808
00:44:38,005 --> 00:44:41,171
but he also, he was a hero
because of the man he was,
809
00:44:41,173 --> 00:44:43,987
because of the
personality that he had.
810
00:44:43,989 --> 00:44:45,939
Sometimes when
you meet the person
811
00:44:45,941 --> 00:44:48,595
that you've idolized
all them years
812
00:44:48,597 --> 00:44:50,708
they're disillusion
because they're not
813
00:44:50,710 --> 00:44:53,172
what you've cracked
them up to be,
814
00:44:53,174 --> 00:44:55,347
they're not what you
expected them to be.
815
00:44:55,349 --> 00:44:59,029
He was nothing like that.
He was so modest and generous.
816
00:45:01,015 --> 00:45:04,915
He fulfilled
the ideal of the simple living,
817
00:45:04,917 --> 00:45:08,533
not a boastful man, the
kind of guy you could meet
818
00:45:08,535 --> 00:45:11,635
in a pub, hope to meet in
a pub and have a chat to
819
00:45:11,637 --> 00:45:13,012
without saying,
"Who do you think you are,
820
00:45:13,014 --> 00:45:14,741
Stanley Matthews?"
821
00:45:14,743 --> 00:45:16,180
You'd see him around.
822
00:45:16,182 --> 00:45:20,982
He wouldn't be driving a flash
car or proclaiming himself.
823
00:45:20,984 --> 00:45:25,332
He was very softly spoken,
he was very humble.
824
00:45:25,334 --> 00:45:27,252
He was a chap who
would walk to the ground
825
00:45:27,254 --> 00:45:28,916
with the fans.
826
00:45:28,918 --> 00:45:30,805
He was a chap who could
be seen out and about
827
00:45:30,807 --> 00:45:32,885
and would welcome
people coming up to him
828
00:45:32,887 --> 00:45:34,550
and talking to him.
829
00:45:34,552 --> 00:45:35,702
He'd always have
a word for kids.
830
00:45:35,704 --> 00:45:37,781
He'd always had time
to sign autographs.
831
00:45:37,783 --> 00:45:40,373
He take an interest in people.
832
00:45:40,375 --> 00:45:42,582
He could walk around
the city and people would
833
00:45:42,584 --> 00:45:45,365
be able to stop and
talk and shake his hand
834
00:45:45,367 --> 00:45:47,125
and he'd stop and talk to them.
835
00:45:47,127 --> 00:45:51,094
He had no kind of pretentions
about being a superstar,
836
00:45:51,096 --> 00:45:54,006
no pretentions about being
better than anybody else
837
00:45:54,008 --> 00:45:56,855
and yet for all his
achievements in the game
838
00:45:56,857 --> 00:45:59,544
he had every right
to be that way.
839
00:46:01,432 --> 00:46:02,455
A lot these things,
840
00:46:02,457 --> 00:46:04,534
I wouldn't say taken
for granted,
841
00:46:04,536 --> 00:46:06,326
but they were sort of normal,
he was footballer of the year,
842
00:46:06,328 --> 00:46:09,047
he won the Ballon d'Or.
843
00:46:09,049 --> 00:46:13,142
It was only in later years
that I all of a sudden realized
844
00:46:13,144 --> 00:46:15,993
that some of the things
he did was special.
845
00:46:18,361 --> 00:46:19,543
A lot of people did say
846
00:46:19,545 --> 00:46:20,823
that it was nostalgia
847
00:46:20,825 --> 00:46:23,446
that kept him going as
long as he did keep going.
848
00:46:23,448 --> 00:46:26,456
I think you've got
to look at the film,
849
00:46:26,458 --> 00:46:28,087
study the evidence,
it wasn't nostalgia.
850
00:46:28,089 --> 00:46:29,783
Wembley's
most colorful game for years
851
00:46:29,785 --> 00:46:32,759
when Brazil, in the very
short shorts leading them.
852
00:46:32,761 --> 00:46:35,257
Stan Matthews, grand old
man of English football
853
00:46:35,259 --> 00:46:38,040
beats Nilton Santos and
pass it to John Atyeo.
854
00:46:38,042 --> 00:46:41,655
Atyeo to Taylor and from
ten yards out Taylor scores!
855
00:46:41,657 --> 00:46:44,280
England kept trying to
drop him in his later years
856
00:46:44,282 --> 00:46:46,713
because they thought he was
too old to play football
857
00:46:46,715 --> 00:46:48,344
and he kept playing brilliantly
858
00:46:48,346 --> 00:46:50,041
and they kept having
to pick him again.
859
00:46:50,043 --> 00:46:51,544
England
attacking again.
860
00:46:51,546 --> 00:46:54,808
Stan Matthews has
it, he's challenged,
861
00:46:54,810 --> 00:46:56,312
he send it to Atyeo
who beats the goalie
862
00:46:56,314 --> 00:46:58,457
and heads to Taylor
and Taylor scores!
863
00:46:58,459 --> 00:47:01,817
The Brazil match was
almost the high point,
864
00:47:01,819 --> 00:47:04,185
almost in a way the greatest
match he ever played
865
00:47:04,187 --> 00:47:06,873
was that match against
Brazil when has in,
866
00:47:06,875 --> 00:47:09,689
he was past, I'm pretty certain
he was past his 40th birthday.
867
00:47:09,691 --> 00:47:11,545
And that gives a
light to the fact
868
00:47:11,547 --> 00:47:13,532
that it was pure nostalgia.
869
00:47:15,642 --> 00:47:17,497
Overnight
down in the mouth
870
00:47:17,499 --> 00:47:19,002
Stoke City were transformed.
871
00:47:19,004 --> 00:47:21,466
Stanley Matthews was
back with the club
872
00:47:21,468 --> 00:47:23,033
and shows up telegrams left him
873
00:47:23,035 --> 00:47:24,793
in no doubt about his welcome.
874
00:47:24,795 --> 00:47:27,481
What a tonic for Stoke, near
the bottom of division two
875
00:47:27,483 --> 00:47:29,946
that missed the
football, was home again.
876
00:47:29,948 --> 00:47:31,513
And what a gate he drew.
877
00:47:31,515 --> 00:47:34,427
36,000, four times the
average number of the season
878
00:47:34,429 --> 00:47:36,122
were there for the
sheer joy of watching
879
00:47:36,124 --> 00:47:38,425
the ace player of
his generation.
880
00:47:38,427 --> 00:47:40,314
He was 46 years of age
881
00:47:40,316 --> 00:47:42,362
and most footballers
are completely utterly
882
00:47:42,364 --> 00:47:44,411
finished in football at 46.
883
00:47:44,413 --> 00:47:48,346
He was 46 and he came
back and he nearly beat
884
00:47:48,348 --> 00:47:51,131
a whole team on his
own with seven players.
885
00:47:51,133 --> 00:47:54,907
It was just as if the football
was tied to his shoelaces
886
00:47:54,909 --> 00:47:57,723
or with elastical bands on.
887
00:47:57,725 --> 00:48:00,506
You know, it was
just phenomenal.
888
00:48:00,508 --> 00:48:02,043
46 year old Stan
889
00:48:02,045 --> 00:48:03,387
were soon giving the
Huddersfield defense
890
00:48:03,389 --> 00:48:05,947
the biggest run around
they've had this year.
891
00:48:05,949 --> 00:48:07,292
There wasn't a shadow
of the old bloom left
892
00:48:07,294 --> 00:48:09,116
on Stoke City ground.
893
00:48:09,118 --> 00:48:13,308
The crowd we were getting
before he came was very poor.
894
00:48:13,310 --> 00:48:15,452
You know, eight, 10,000.
895
00:48:15,454 --> 00:48:19,548
First match, Stan
came back 30, 40,000.
896
00:48:19,550 --> 00:48:21,723
And I remember vividly
my mom saying to me,
897
00:48:21,725 --> 00:48:23,771
"Now the next time we
go to the game, Angela,
898
00:48:23,773 --> 00:48:25,467
"you won't be able
to run around."
899
00:48:25,469 --> 00:48:26,940
And I said, "Why?"
900
00:48:26,942 --> 00:48:28,379
And she said, "Because
Stan's coming back."
901
00:48:28,381 --> 00:48:31,196
Being small, I thought, "Yeah,
I'll just still run around."
902
00:48:31,198 --> 00:48:33,181
And then we got to the
ground and it was like people
903
00:48:33,183 --> 00:48:34,908
walking past me
seem like giants,
904
00:48:34,910 --> 00:48:37,212
millions of people to
me as a small girl.
905
00:48:37,214 --> 00:48:39,740
And then we got to the seats
and I was stuck in there,
906
00:48:39,742 --> 00:48:41,885
crammed in and,
but it made me focus
907
00:48:41,887 --> 00:48:43,677
on watching the football.
908
00:48:43,679 --> 00:48:46,688
And I remember this man
was a very special player.
909
00:48:48,478 --> 00:48:51,388
If you were in your
40s and at six foot six
910
00:48:51,390 --> 00:48:52,861
you could stand
anywhere you liked.
911
00:48:52,863 --> 00:48:55,325
But when we first went
in the standing end,
912
00:48:55,327 --> 00:48:57,725
me and my friends, all of whom
I still go to the game with,
913
00:48:57,727 --> 00:48:59,262
all of whom I've been
going to the game
914
00:48:59,264 --> 00:49:01,054
since I was about ten,
915
00:49:01,056 --> 00:49:05,725
we ended up on the right hand
side behind a great, big pillar
916
00:49:05,727 --> 00:49:08,061
with a massive B sign
on it like that.
917
00:49:08,063 --> 00:49:10,462
And basically we
really just looked
918
00:49:10,464 --> 00:49:11,709
at the letter B for 90 minutes
919
00:49:11,711 --> 00:49:13,055
and there was often
a guy who'd say,
920
00:49:13,057 --> 00:49:14,175
"Who scored that?"
921
00:49:14,177 --> 00:49:16,605
"Post B scored that
one, didn't they?"
922
00:49:16,607 --> 00:49:18,559
"Who's been sent off?" Post B?
I think it was, wasn't it?
923
00:49:18,561 --> 00:49:21,950
But in no sense of that
being unfair in anyway
924
00:49:21,952 --> 00:49:24,318
or that we paid our way,
we knew that eventually
925
00:49:24,320 --> 00:49:26,110
we weren't gonna be six foot six
926
00:49:26,112 --> 00:49:28,158
but we were gonna be in our 40s.
927
00:49:28,160 --> 00:49:30,719
Gates went to capacity
928
00:49:30,721 --> 00:49:33,887
overnight because
the hero was returning.
929
00:49:33,889 --> 00:49:35,711
You know, what could you do?
930
00:49:35,713 --> 00:49:38,303
And you couldn't write
a book could you,
931
00:49:38,305 --> 00:49:42,367
and on the final game
Stanley scores a goal
932
00:49:42,369 --> 00:49:46,178
and Stoke promoted back
to the first division.
933
00:49:48,192 --> 00:49:51,232
People said he was
kept on simply because
934
00:49:51,234 --> 00:49:52,831
he was Stanley Matthews.
935
00:49:52,833 --> 00:49:54,687
No, I mean he played
practically every match
936
00:49:54,689 --> 00:49:56,543
in the season of
Stoke, went back up
937
00:49:56,545 --> 00:49:59,104
into the first
division, he played
938
00:49:59,106 --> 00:50:01,568
some of his most
amazing performances.
939
00:50:01,570 --> 00:50:02,944
It was one of his best seasons.
940
00:50:02,946 --> 00:50:07,168
I was lucky enough to be a
young man of 16 years of age
941
00:50:07,170 --> 00:50:10,368
when I saw Sir Stanley Matthews,
942
00:50:10,370 --> 00:50:13,792
well he wasn't a Sir
then, made a Sir in 1965
943
00:50:13,794 --> 00:50:15,488
by the queen when
he was knighted.
944
00:50:15,490 --> 00:50:18,915
He was the first footballer
to be knighted in Britain.
945
00:50:21,891 --> 00:50:23,680
Harold Wilson, who was
the prime minister at the time,
946
00:50:23,682 --> 00:50:27,296
the civil servant who
was looking at the list
947
00:50:27,298 --> 00:50:29,888
said, "Stanley Matthews,
I don't think we could
948
00:50:29,890 --> 00:50:32,352
can't really have footballer
as a knight, can we?"
949
00:50:32,354 --> 00:50:36,129
Can you imagine knights with
muddy legs, do you, sir?"
950
00:50:36,131 --> 00:50:37,184
And Harold Wilson said,
951
00:50:37,186 --> 00:50:38,433
"I can't do this
action unfortunately."
952
00:50:38,435 --> 00:50:43,553
He said, "Who's the
decision finally down to?"
953
00:50:43,555 --> 00:50:45,602
And the civil servant
said, "You, sir."
954
00:50:45,604 --> 00:50:47,557
And he said,
"Then he's a knight."
955
00:50:50,052 --> 00:50:51,521
Are you still
determined to retire
956
00:50:51,523 --> 00:50:53,602
at the end of the season?
957
00:50:53,604 --> 00:50:55,361
Yes, I am retiring.
958
00:50:55,363 --> 00:50:57,474
My last game is
on April the 28th.
959
00:50:57,476 --> 00:51:01,313
I have a big match there
with the European stars.
960
00:51:01,315 --> 00:51:05,027
But I'm also hoping to play a
few league games before then
961
00:51:05,029 --> 00:51:06,658
and then probably next summer
962
00:51:06,660 --> 00:51:07,779
I'm gonna play
exhibition games.
963
00:51:07,781 --> 00:51:11,170
He played until
after his 50th birthday
964
00:51:11,172 --> 00:51:13,698
and he decided the year before
965
00:51:13,700 --> 00:51:16,419
that that particular season
would be his last season
966
00:51:16,421 --> 00:51:18,468
because he was being niggled
a little bit by injury.
967
00:51:18,470 --> 00:51:20,546
He'd kept his body
in such good shape,
968
00:51:20,548 --> 00:51:23,426
but of course the tolls
of the game over the years
969
00:51:23,428 --> 00:51:27,426
started to affect his body
in the way he could perform.
970
00:51:27,428 --> 00:51:28,804
And so he played in fewer games
971
00:51:28,806 --> 00:51:33,670
and decided that the season
would be the last season.
972
00:51:39,941 --> 00:51:42,117
When he played his
final testimonial game
973
00:51:42,119 --> 00:51:45,126
at the Victoria
Ground, it was packed.
974
00:51:47,366 --> 00:51:50,982
That evening was beamed
across the world.
975
00:51:52,390 --> 00:51:55,814
His final game in April 1965.
976
00:52:01,767 --> 00:52:03,589
Puskas, Di Stefano
977
00:52:03,591 --> 00:52:06,821
came to Victoria Ground to play.
978
00:52:06,823 --> 00:52:10,020
It was one of the
most emotional nights
979
00:52:10,022 --> 00:52:11,940
that I have ever witnessed.
980
00:52:33,128 --> 00:52:36,389
People from domestic
game and the international game
981
00:52:36,391 --> 00:52:38,981
turned up along with the
crowds and the cameras
982
00:52:38,983 --> 00:52:41,032
to see him take his bow.
983
00:52:56,105 --> 00:52:59,880
I think Stanley
Matthews' personal life,
984
00:52:59,882 --> 00:53:02,311
which is actually not,
again it's not often part
985
00:53:02,313 --> 00:53:06,600
of the narrative that is
told, is really intriguing.
986
00:53:06,602 --> 00:53:10,824
He'd been married to
Betty for 35 years,
987
00:53:10,826 --> 00:53:12,136
I mean they married very young,
988
00:53:12,138 --> 00:53:15,463
it was very typical of
working class English life.
989
00:53:15,465 --> 00:53:18,599
You know, you married the
local girl, the local lad,
990
00:53:18,601 --> 00:53:22,407
you did it in your teens,
you had kids and that was that.
991
00:53:22,409 --> 00:53:26,888
Stanley left his
first wife soon after
992
00:53:26,890 --> 00:53:30,919
he'd finished playing
professionally
993
00:53:30,921 --> 00:53:35,626
and started a
relationship with Mila,
994
00:53:36,714 --> 00:53:39,400
a Czech interpreter.
995
00:53:39,402 --> 00:53:43,177
Stanley had gone out
to Czechoslovakia
996
00:53:43,179 --> 00:53:45,129
with the Port Vale football team
997
00:53:45,131 --> 00:53:48,264
and Mila was the interpreter
the Port Vale team
998
00:53:48,266 --> 00:53:52,104
was provided with when
they arrived in Prague.
999
00:53:52,106 --> 00:53:55,562
Suddenly this
intelligent pretty woman
1000
00:53:55,564 --> 00:53:57,544
started taking an
interest in him
1001
00:53:57,546 --> 00:54:00,491
and their relationship
took off from there.
1002
00:54:02,538 --> 00:54:07,754
In an era where divorce
still was, have pretty serious
1003
00:54:07,756 --> 00:54:10,410
sort of negative
social consequences
1004
00:54:10,412 --> 00:54:13,866
and a lot of bad feeling
around that he just went,
1005
00:54:13,868 --> 00:54:16,074
"No, this is the
love of my life,"
1006
00:54:16,076 --> 00:54:19,082
and he divorced Betty
and he married Mila
1007
00:54:19,084 --> 00:54:22,538
and retired to
Malta where he had
1008
00:54:22,540 --> 00:54:24,394
this extraordinary happy life.
1009
00:54:24,396 --> 00:54:27,498
That's rare of his generation.
1010
00:54:27,500 --> 00:54:28,939
And I think she was
1011
00:54:28,941 --> 00:54:30,506
the similar sort of
person to Stanley
1012
00:54:30,508 --> 00:54:33,098
she was very unassuming,
she was very gentle,
1013
00:54:33,100 --> 00:54:36,394
she was very humble,
she stood by his side
1014
00:54:36,396 --> 00:54:40,683
and supported him and
I think they were the love
1015
00:54:40,685 --> 00:54:43,723
of each other's lives
in his last years.
1016
00:54:43,725 --> 00:54:45,802
And by that time he
couldn't do anything
1017
00:54:45,804 --> 00:54:48,874
other than football,
obviously it was his life.
1018
00:54:48,876 --> 00:54:52,907
What people don't
generally realize
1019
00:54:52,909 --> 00:54:55,084
is what he did for Africans.
1020
00:54:55,086 --> 00:54:57,259
He was enormous
on the world stage
1021
00:54:57,261 --> 00:55:00,075
and going to Africa,
going to Soweto
1022
00:55:00,077 --> 00:55:04,683
and just teach them football,
play football with them
1023
00:55:04,685 --> 00:55:07,627
was something that most
of the world never,
1024
00:55:07,629 --> 00:55:11,532
well, today don't
really know about.
1025
00:55:11,534 --> 00:55:13,069
He would go and
do soccer camps
1026
00:55:13,071 --> 00:55:15,244
in places like Malta in Europe,
1027
00:55:15,246 --> 00:55:19,117
in South Africa he spends
a lot of time there.
1028
00:55:19,119 --> 00:55:21,132
An incredible
legacy that he then has
1029
00:55:21,134 --> 00:55:25,231
that he went to Africa
and coached in Soweto.
1030
00:55:27,470 --> 00:55:29,421
Around that era,
in Soweto,
1031
00:55:29,423 --> 00:55:32,525
it was a melting pot of
1032
00:55:32,527 --> 00:55:36,588
volatility on a political level.
1033
00:55:36,590 --> 00:55:39,598
You know,
the first thing you'd notice
1034
00:55:39,600 --> 00:55:41,165
about South Africa
was that there were
1035
00:55:41,167 --> 00:55:43,085
toilets for white people,
1036
00:55:43,087 --> 00:55:44,494
there were toilets
for colored people,
1037
00:55:44,496 --> 00:55:46,414
there were toilets
for black people.
1038
00:55:46,416 --> 00:55:49,550
It was a pretty brutal,
pretty terrible regime,
1039
00:55:49,552 --> 00:55:51,214
the apartheid regime.
1040
00:55:51,216 --> 00:55:54,481
The place
is a basket case
1041
00:55:55,568 --> 00:55:57,549
because of apartheid.
1042
00:55:57,551 --> 00:55:58,701
For him
to come into Soweto
1043
00:55:58,703 --> 00:56:01,453
was a very courageous act,
1044
00:56:01,455 --> 00:56:06,223
because people would've attacked
him just for being white.
1045
00:56:06,225 --> 00:56:09,134
You know, that's the
level of hate we had.
1046
00:56:09,136 --> 00:56:10,926
Just for being white,
what is this white man
1047
00:56:10,928 --> 00:56:13,935
doing in this area,
he's an oppressor.
1048
00:56:13,937 --> 00:56:17,646
Football then was a black
man's sport in South Africa,
1049
00:56:17,648 --> 00:56:18,927
the whites play rugby.
1050
00:56:18,929 --> 00:56:21,999
He found that the,
in the townships
1051
00:56:22,001 --> 00:56:24,462
there was a need for coaching,
1052
00:56:24,464 --> 00:56:27,248
they asked him to coach
and he agreed to coach.
1053
00:56:27,250 --> 00:56:29,678
It wasn't a political
statement at all.
1054
00:56:29,680 --> 00:56:33,039
It would've annoyed him
completely for any individual
1055
00:56:33,041 --> 00:56:35,983
to be stopped to
fulfill their potential,
1056
00:56:35,985 --> 00:56:37,295
especially by something
which obviously
1057
00:56:37,297 --> 00:56:39,823
was as trivial to
him, if you like,
1058
00:56:39,825 --> 00:56:42,608
as the color of
somebody's actual skin.
1059
00:56:42,610 --> 00:56:47,119
I met Sir Stan in
1974 and invited me
1060
00:56:47,121 --> 00:56:50,703
to join a group of schoolboys
1061
00:56:50,705 --> 00:56:53,169
that he was aiming to coach
1062
00:56:53,171 --> 00:56:58,096
and build this team
called Sir Stan's Men.
1063
00:56:58,098 --> 00:57:00,624
He said, "I want that guy.
1064
00:57:00,626 --> 00:57:03,280
"He must come to learn
in stadium for training."
1065
00:57:03,282 --> 00:57:06,352
At the time, we didn't know.
1066
00:57:06,354 --> 00:57:09,873
We just recently knew
that Stan was banned,
1067
00:57:09,875 --> 00:57:12,817
was blacklisted and
stuff like that.
1068
00:57:12,819 --> 00:57:15,024
Internationally he was
on a blacklist
1069
00:57:15,026 --> 00:57:16,624
from anti-apartheid people
1070
00:57:16,626 --> 00:57:18,801
because he had gone
into the country.
1071
00:57:18,803 --> 00:57:23,056
He was quite amused because
he's had Frank Sinatra
1072
00:57:23,058 --> 00:57:24,881
on the same list.
1073
00:57:24,883 --> 00:57:28,465
But how did he get permission
to come into the location?
1074
00:57:28,467 --> 00:57:33,970
There had been a lull or
quietness in the resistance
1075
00:57:33,972 --> 00:57:37,394
to apartheid from the 1960s
1076
00:57:37,396 --> 00:57:40,594
into the late '60s, early '70s.
1077
00:57:40,596 --> 00:57:44,146
So anytime when he comes,
you want to come, he comes.
1078
00:57:44,148 --> 00:57:46,642
Whether night or day.
That was then.
1079
00:57:46,644 --> 00:57:51,186
He built our team
spirit by visiting us also
1080
00:57:51,188 --> 00:57:53,779
in our homes.
1081
00:57:53,781 --> 00:57:56,723
So it was marvelous to,
1082
00:57:56,725 --> 00:57:59,123
for him to come into our places
1083
00:57:59,125 --> 00:58:01,586
and meet our families.
1084
00:58:01,588 --> 00:58:05,426
It was good, but he
wasn't afraid by then.
1085
00:58:05,428 --> 00:58:10,355
But other people were even
afraid to come to Soweto,
1086
00:58:10,357 --> 00:58:12,211
but he wasn't.
1087
00:58:12,213 --> 00:58:15,091
So that's why we
were so close to him.
1088
00:58:15,093 --> 00:58:17,140
He was a father to us.
1089
00:58:17,142 --> 00:58:19,795
He organized lots
of things for them
1090
00:58:19,797 --> 00:58:21,907
and I think he
actually said to Coke,
1091
00:58:21,909 --> 00:58:24,755
"How about sorting some
kits out for these boys."
1092
00:58:24,757 --> 00:58:26,707
Coca-Cola was our sponsor.
1093
00:58:26,709 --> 00:58:28,595
The track suites,
said Stanley Matthews
1094
00:58:28,597 --> 00:58:32,307
and then at the back Coca-Cola
and then there was a photo
1095
00:58:32,309 --> 00:58:34,134
of Stan which we are proud of.
1096
00:58:35,606 --> 00:58:36,947
I was happy.
1097
00:58:36,949 --> 00:58:40,851
Even today, I'm still
having this top of track suits
1098
00:58:40,853 --> 00:58:42,678
and the jacket.
1099
00:58:43,863 --> 00:58:45,621
Even the tie.
1100
00:58:47,511 --> 00:58:48,757
We don't have those things.
1101
00:58:48,759 --> 00:58:50,357
They must go to a museum.
1102
00:58:51,351 --> 00:58:52,437
Historical.
1103
00:58:52,439 --> 00:58:55,477
After training
at Orlando stadium,
1104
00:58:55,479 --> 00:58:57,269
Stanley Matthews was
saying something.
1105
00:58:57,271 --> 00:58:58,964
I couldn't hear.
1106
00:58:58,966 --> 00:59:01,557
And he was speaking so fast,
1107
00:59:01,559 --> 00:59:04,821
speaking closing his teeth.
1108
00:59:04,823 --> 00:59:09,493
I said to him, "Stan,
can you please slow down
1109
00:59:09,495 --> 00:59:11,445
and pronounce it word by word
1110
00:59:11,447 --> 00:59:13,333
and open up your teeth."
1111
00:59:13,335 --> 00:59:14,804
He said, "You are the
captain of the squad."
1112
00:59:16,215 --> 00:59:17,621
And just like that.
1113
00:59:17,623 --> 00:59:18,837
Any objection?
1114
00:59:18,839 --> 00:59:21,014
Other guys were looking down
1115
00:59:21,016 --> 00:59:23,382
and then silence means concern.
1116
00:59:23,384 --> 00:59:25,815
Till today he's still wanted.
1117
00:59:25,817 --> 00:59:28,822
He was giving tips
how to kick soccer,
1118
00:59:28,824 --> 00:59:31,093
how to do formation.
1119
00:59:31,095 --> 00:59:34,773
He was just an
impressive coach.
1120
00:59:34,775 --> 00:59:37,814
I think we gained
a lot from him.
1121
00:59:37,816 --> 00:59:41,238
And some of the things
that I got from him
1122
00:59:41,240 --> 00:59:42,551
I'm still doing them.
1123
00:59:42,553 --> 00:59:45,015
We used to play
protectorate countries.
1124
00:59:45,017 --> 00:59:49,111
Swaziland, Lesotho, Botswana,
1125
00:59:49,113 --> 00:59:50,487
et cetera.
1126
00:59:50,489 --> 00:59:53,722
Until a big trip comes
1127
00:59:55,896 --> 00:59:57,271
Rio de Janiero.
1128
00:59:57,273 --> 00:59:59,447
I couldn't believe it.
1129
00:59:59,449 --> 01:00:01,080
I said, "To Brazil?
1130
01:00:01,082 --> 01:00:03,447
"What are we going to do there?"
1131
01:00:03,449 --> 01:00:04,886
He said...
1132
01:00:04,888 --> 01:00:07,606
I don't know, he used
to cough a funny cough.
1133
01:00:07,608 --> 01:00:10,167
And after coughing
and then he's,
1134
01:00:10,169 --> 01:00:12,280
in fact it's
not coughing, it's...
1135
01:00:14,779 --> 01:00:19,287
We are going to train
with the worst out there.
1136
01:00:19,289 --> 01:00:22,680
And you're going
to play at Maracana,
1137
01:00:22,682 --> 01:00:24,504
the giant stadium in the world.
1138
01:00:24,506 --> 01:00:25,592
He said, "I don't know,
1139
01:00:25,594 --> 01:00:28,440
he played how
many years ago there."
1140
01:00:28,442 --> 01:00:30,648
He organized
everything, everything.
1141
01:00:30,650 --> 01:00:35,164
He only come and said,
"Look, Friday we are leaving."
1142
01:00:36,186 --> 01:00:37,240
Just like that.
1143
01:00:37,242 --> 01:00:39,193
"Stan, now what must we do?"
1144
01:00:39,195 --> 01:00:42,168
He'd say, "Tell your
principal he must give you,
1145
01:00:42,170 --> 01:00:44,921
you write all the guys
and then they put a stamp
1146
01:00:44,923 --> 01:00:46,553
and then it's official."
1147
01:00:46,555 --> 01:00:48,440
I said, "Good."
1148
01:00:48,442 --> 01:00:51,195
We were the first
to get this green...
1149
01:00:52,667 --> 01:00:54,585
passport.
1150
01:00:54,587 --> 01:00:56,472
We wouldn't just get it.
1151
01:00:56,474 --> 01:00:59,930
As a black man, no.
1152
01:00:59,932 --> 01:01:05,658
Only for other people
could get it, not us.
1153
01:01:05,660 --> 01:01:08,697
Because of who he
was and this legend
1154
01:01:08,699 --> 01:01:11,163
that people had seen
on the silver screen
1155
01:01:11,165 --> 01:01:12,379
over the proceeding 20, 30 years
1156
01:01:12,381 --> 01:01:16,378
he had that name,
he had that pulling power.
1157
01:01:16,380 --> 01:01:17,850
He just did it, right.
1158
01:01:17,852 --> 01:01:20,442
He just, it's like most
of the things he did.
1159
01:01:20,444 --> 01:01:24,859
If he wanted to do
something, he could do it
1160
01:01:24,861 --> 01:01:26,235
and he would do it.
1161
01:01:26,237 --> 01:01:29,722
In society he was
very clever.
1162
01:01:29,724 --> 01:01:34,170
He always had friends
in South Africa
1163
01:01:34,172 --> 01:01:37,435
and he would, he could,
1164
01:01:37,437 --> 01:01:40,539
every meeting with
them and tell them,
1165
01:01:40,541 --> 01:01:43,294
"Let us do one, two, three."
1166
01:01:44,732 --> 01:01:49,564
We spend the whole
week taking photo shoots,
1167
01:01:49,566 --> 01:01:51,994
visiting Sunday Times offices
1168
01:01:51,996 --> 01:01:54,684
and that was the
first time that I saw
1169
01:01:54,686 --> 01:01:57,884
a television set in the
office of Sunday Times.
1170
01:01:57,886 --> 01:01:59,740
Everybody was very excited.
1171
01:01:59,742 --> 01:02:03,420
We're just waiting
for that day, Friday,
1172
01:02:03,422 --> 01:02:04,732
and Friday did come.
1173
01:02:04,734 --> 01:02:09,053
On the 21st of March 1975,
1174
01:02:09,055 --> 01:02:14,045
we went to Jes Maas Airport.
1175
01:02:14,047 --> 01:02:18,172
And some of us was,
it was our first time to see
1176
01:02:18,174 --> 01:02:20,668
airports and airplanes.
1177
01:02:20,670 --> 01:02:23,676
We just the airplane
passing somewhere here.
1178
01:02:23,678 --> 01:02:25,661
Never see it standing there.
1179
01:02:25,663 --> 01:02:28,414
And then we board in 12 o'clock,
1180
01:02:28,416 --> 01:02:31,550
one o'clock we
were in the plane.
1181
01:02:31,552 --> 01:02:33,245
I thought maybe
I will open the window
1182
01:02:33,247 --> 01:02:35,005
and say to them,
"Bye, bye, bye, bye"
1183
01:02:35,007 --> 01:02:36,861
No way, there's no window.
1184
01:02:36,863 --> 01:02:39,773
It's just a round thing but
you can see the other side.
1185
01:02:39,775 --> 01:02:41,213
And then we move.
1186
01:03:07,840 --> 01:03:10,526
We were surprised.
1187
01:03:10,528 --> 01:03:11,870
There's a sea here.
1188
01:03:11,872 --> 01:03:14,687
Is that Atlantic ocean?
1189
01:03:14,689 --> 01:03:16,254
There's a sea here.
1190
01:03:16,256 --> 01:03:18,431
Just, it's not far away.
1191
01:03:18,433 --> 01:03:20,416
And when we saw two ladies
1192
01:03:20,418 --> 01:03:23,298
you know, having those,
1193
01:03:25,601 --> 01:03:29,118
those swimming costumes,
I said, "Why people are,
1194
01:03:29,120 --> 01:03:31,839
it seems like they are naked.
1195
01:03:31,841 --> 01:03:35,551
In South Africa,
you can't go onto the street
1196
01:03:35,553 --> 01:03:36,864
dressed like this.
1197
01:03:36,866 --> 01:03:38,560
No, it's impossible.
1198
01:03:38,562 --> 01:03:41,920
Sir Stan said,
"No, this is their living.
1199
01:03:41,922 --> 01:03:43,809
Just forget about them.
1200
01:03:43,811 --> 01:03:45,729
We were surprised.
1201
01:03:45,731 --> 01:03:48,032
"How are these people living?
1202
01:03:48,034 --> 01:03:51,169
Why should that black lady
or black guy go hand in hand
1203
01:03:51,171 --> 01:03:53,793
with that white or black, why?"
1204
01:03:53,795 --> 01:03:56,704
It turns out this
is a free country.
1205
01:03:56,706 --> 01:03:59,425
This is not like South Africa.
1206
01:03:59,427 --> 01:04:01,600
Guys, I want to...
1207
01:04:01,602 --> 01:04:06,241
to learn how to play football.
1208
01:04:06,243 --> 01:04:09,440
But we've learned a lot,
especially soccer.
1209
01:04:09,442 --> 01:04:12,001
We met great players.
1210
01:04:12,003 --> 01:04:15,233
Carlos Albert Parreira or Zico.
1211
01:04:15,235 --> 01:04:16,961
Zico?
1212
01:04:16,963 --> 01:04:19,585
Arthur Coimbra,
that was his full name.
1213
01:04:19,587 --> 01:04:22,497
His nickname is Zico.
1214
01:04:22,499 --> 01:04:23,713
He was a friend to movers...
1215
01:04:23,715 --> 01:04:25,122
to Ruskin.
1216
01:04:25,124 --> 01:04:27,553
I've got a big
portrait in my house
1217
01:04:27,555 --> 01:04:29,442
hanging there in the wall.
1218
01:04:29,444 --> 01:04:31,137
I'm with Zico.
1219
01:04:31,139 --> 01:04:34,402
We saw that other people
they love their country,
1220
01:04:34,404 --> 01:04:37,602
they love their great players,
1221
01:04:37,604 --> 01:04:39,938
they respect them just like it.
1222
01:04:39,940 --> 01:04:42,370
If it were maybe it
can help and, even here
1223
01:04:42,372 --> 01:04:45,057
maybe we can go
far with football.
1224
01:04:51,652 --> 01:04:53,699
After we came
back from Brazil,
1225
01:04:53,701 --> 01:04:57,988
Stan wanted to
take us to Germany.
1226
01:04:57,990 --> 01:04:59,362
It was already sealed.
1227
01:04:59,364 --> 01:05:00,963
He said, "Boys let's do it.
1228
01:05:00,965 --> 01:05:02,787
It's Germany."
1229
01:05:02,789 --> 01:05:07,332
Maybe he wanted us
to get all the styles
1230
01:05:07,334 --> 01:05:10,852
of these big, big teams,
big countries.
1231
01:05:10,854 --> 01:05:13,731
I think that was his dream.
1232
01:05:13,733 --> 01:05:16,612
Oh, gosh.
1233
01:05:16,614 --> 01:05:22,086
There come that
sudden uprising '76.
1234
01:05:37,382 --> 01:05:39,653
The riots started,
1235
01:05:39,655 --> 01:05:42,308
the whole country.
1236
01:05:42,310 --> 01:05:45,255
By that time there
was no soccer,
1237
01:05:46,214 --> 01:05:48,036
hey, it was bad.
1238
01:05:48,038 --> 01:05:51,846
When we separated with him,
1239
01:05:51,848 --> 01:05:56,997
there was a hole in my heart.
1240
01:05:56,999 --> 01:06:01,604
He came here not because
he wanted something.
1241
01:06:01,606 --> 01:06:03,718
He loved South Africa.
1242
01:06:03,720 --> 01:06:07,846
I don't think there will be
another Sir Stanley Matthews.
1243
01:06:07,848 --> 01:06:12,870
He used to tell us that you
must be close to each other.
1244
01:06:12,872 --> 01:06:15,270
We are friends
because of him.
1245
01:06:15,272 --> 01:06:19,365
I mean boys from different
schools come together
1246
01:06:19,367 --> 01:06:25,094
and be friends and you know
each and every one's home
1247
01:06:25,096 --> 01:06:27,718
and parents, it talks a lot.
1248
01:06:27,720 --> 01:06:32,456
I mean those, that is a proof
at how Sir Matthews was.
1249
01:06:34,025 --> 01:06:38,215
You see, football to us
it was bread and butter.
1250
01:06:38,217 --> 01:06:41,704
We don't like this thing,
we love it.
1251
01:06:43,720 --> 01:06:46,982
Because, I'm sorry
to use the word "Like."
1252
01:06:46,984 --> 01:06:50,377
Like is temporary
but love...
1253
01:06:51,529 --> 01:06:53,194
is forever.
1254
01:07:14,059 --> 01:07:17,289
One of the greatest, perhaps
the greatest footballer
1255
01:07:17,291 --> 01:07:19,848
ever to dawn an England
shirt died this evening.
1256
01:07:19,850 --> 01:07:21,544
Sir Stanley Matthews,
whose playing career
1257
01:07:21,546 --> 01:07:24,105
lasted into his 50s, was 85.
1258
01:07:24,107 --> 01:07:27,208
He died in hospital
after a short illness.
1259
01:07:32,042 --> 01:07:34,217
As a mark of
their respect and admiration
1260
01:07:34,219 --> 01:07:36,681
for one of the nation's
greatest ever footballers,
1261
01:07:36,683 --> 01:07:38,665
the England team
wore black arm bands
1262
01:07:38,667 --> 01:07:40,713
for tonight's match
against Argentina.
1263
01:07:40,715 --> 01:07:43,176
And the crowd at Wembley
was asked to observe
1264
01:07:43,178 --> 01:07:44,427
a minute silence.
1265
01:07:54,892 --> 01:07:57,033
In the week in
which the funeral
1266
01:07:57,035 --> 01:08:00,778
was being put together
and planned and so on,
1267
01:08:00,780 --> 01:08:03,530
the sheer scale of the operation
1268
01:08:03,532 --> 01:08:05,291
became apparent
for what had begun
1269
01:08:05,293 --> 01:08:07,786
thinking of again to
have what would be
1270
01:08:07,788 --> 01:08:09,546
a family funeral with
Stoke supporters,
1271
01:08:09,548 --> 01:08:12,266
suddenly, no, it is
going to be national;
1272
01:08:12,268 --> 01:08:14,539
no, actually the
Royal Family is coming;
1273
01:08:14,541 --> 01:08:17,930
no, actually it's going to
be filmed on the sky sport TV
1274
01:08:17,932 --> 01:08:21,035
around the world and it becomes
this sort of major thing.
1275
01:08:21,037 --> 01:08:24,811
So almost on an hourly basis
it was being ramped up.
1276
01:08:24,813 --> 01:08:26,668
I think we all knew
when Stanley passed away
1277
01:08:26,670 --> 01:08:29,579
that the funeral was
gonna be a big deal.
1278
01:08:29,581 --> 01:08:33,995
I don't think I had any idea
of the...
1279
01:08:33,997 --> 01:08:35,626
scale of the thing.
1280
01:08:35,628 --> 01:08:38,091
The Guardian, I think,
wrote that this funeral
1281
01:08:38,093 --> 01:08:42,124
was the biggest sort
of public funeral,
1282
01:08:42,126 --> 01:08:45,708
after Winston Churchill,
the nation had ever known
1283
01:08:45,710 --> 01:08:49,804
and I think that is a
real measure of the man.
1284
01:08:49,806 --> 01:08:52,333
I mean not just
all the local people
1285
01:08:52,335 --> 01:08:55,436
turned out on the
streets and all around,
1286
01:08:55,438 --> 01:08:58,060
but also real giants
of the game were there
1287
01:08:58,062 --> 01:09:01,229
and it was,
and it was in the city
1288
01:09:01,231 --> 01:09:03,244
and I just, actually it
would've been possible
1289
01:09:03,246 --> 01:09:06,765
I'm sure to have had
a service in the city
1290
01:09:06,767 --> 01:09:08,685
and a memorial somewhere else.
1291
01:09:08,687 --> 01:09:11,501
But I think it was good
that the whole thing
1292
01:09:11,503 --> 01:09:14,572
was held in the city and
then ultimately in the ground
1293
01:09:14,574 --> 01:09:16,493
and all of those things.
1294
01:09:16,495 --> 01:09:21,293
Because he may have had
1295
01:09:21,295 --> 01:09:23,662
Blackpool colors in him,
1296
01:09:23,664 --> 01:09:25,262
but if you turn him upside down
1297
01:09:25,264 --> 01:09:27,309
it says, "Made in
Stoke-on-Trent."
1298
01:11:24,116 --> 01:11:26,577
I wrote this piece when
Stanley Matthews died.
1299
01:11:26,579 --> 01:11:29,458
And I said, "The ultimate
tragedy of modern football
1300
01:11:29,460 --> 01:11:30,610
is that it took
the death of a man
1301
01:11:30,612 --> 01:11:33,971
who hasn't played
for more than 30 years
1302
01:11:33,973 --> 01:11:36,465
to remind us of a time
when sportsmanship,
1303
01:11:36,467 --> 01:11:38,546
courtesy, manners, good humor
1304
01:11:38,548 --> 01:11:40,434
were not dead
words but precepts
1305
01:11:40,436 --> 01:11:43,507
to that which no game is
worth playing or watching.
1306
01:11:43,509 --> 01:11:46,259
Stanley Matthews'
career was a celebration
1307
01:11:46,261 --> 01:11:48,211
of the game when
it was beautiful.
1308
01:11:48,213 --> 01:11:50,130
The trouble with
nostalgia is it starts
1309
01:11:50,132 --> 01:11:52,434
with the invention
of the videotape,
1310
01:11:52,436 --> 01:11:53,907
everything that went before it
1311
01:11:53,909 --> 01:11:56,308
is left to old
men on park benches
1312
01:11:56,310 --> 01:11:57,971
and granddads telling stories."
1313
01:11:57,973 --> 01:12:00,180
Well, granddads
still tell stories
1314
01:12:00,182 --> 01:12:02,710
and I still tell them
about Stanley Matthews.
1315
01:12:04,694 --> 01:12:09,299
Each and every one of
you have been invited here
1316
01:12:09,301 --> 01:12:13,107
because you are the best
players in the school.
1317
01:12:13,109 --> 01:12:17,686
You have been invited here
to play a very special game,
1318
01:12:18,743 --> 01:12:22,036
honoring a very special man.
1319
01:12:22,038 --> 01:12:25,523
A man who looked
past our differences,
1320
01:12:25,525 --> 01:12:29,556
to see the common
things that we share,
1321
01:12:29,558 --> 01:12:33,045
he taught us that
how you play the game
1322
01:12:33,047 --> 01:12:38,007
is more important than
winning or losing.
1323
01:12:40,982 --> 01:12:43,732
He taught us that
by playing together
1324
01:12:43,734 --> 01:12:46,644
with dignity and sportsmanship
1325
01:12:46,646 --> 01:12:49,845
we can elevate ourselves
1326
01:12:49,847 --> 01:12:53,304
and be capable of
wonderful things,
1327
01:12:55,159 --> 01:12:57,175
not just on the pitch
1328
01:12:58,455 --> 01:13:00,405
but in our own lives.
1329
01:13:12,152 --> 01:13:15,320
You bear his name
on your jerseys.
1330
01:13:17,528 --> 01:13:19,384
Sir Stanley Matthews.