THE ANGELS OF THE PITCH

But GILES METCALFE reveals that Bobby Charlton WAS booked during the 1966 World Cup Finals

There are a number of notable players who never got booked or sent off in their careers, including Tommy Lawton, Sir Stanley Matthews, Sir Tom Finney, Billy Wright and Jimmy Dickinson and they played in the days when football was a full-on contact sport and challenges that would see them sent for an early bath these days were entirely within the rules.
Alongside them there were players who were gentlemen off the field but hard men on it. They took it from the cloggers of the day, but could dish i...

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