Sunday Disptach - Sunday Disptach Sports Album ~ Football League Stars

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeAUFkc5bo9PgTp0xkIRh7cfAjeptVuB7z_dWhIX4Oa0WYBTtSMsMw7gHsHCOs9oS6q-dQlFappjI_boAJhEgw3rSIc0nwcJiXU5fBN1to8xbZB-b8sfJm5gfvsw3GLvAGOR3-4Yrt9g3l/s1600/FOOTBALL+LEAGUE+STARS+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeAUFkc5bo9PgTp0xkIRh7cfAjeptVuB7z_dWhIX4Oa0WYBTtSMsMw7gHsHCOs9oS6q-dQlFappjI_boAJhEgw3rSIc0nwcJiXU5fBN1to8xbZB-b8sfJm5gfvsw3GLvAGOR3-4Yrt9g3l/s400/FOOTBALL+LEAGUE+STARS+1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>1947</b></span><br /><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Sunday Disptach Sports Album - Football League Stars</b></span><br /><b><span style="color: purple; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sunday </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dispatch</span></span></b><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>20</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mike Prior has sent in a scan of an item that is interesting...</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>I have a cutting with the wording "An Album of Soccer Stars" and the first two subjects which have come from either side of the title: No.1 Billy Wright and No.2 Ron Burgess (both pictures have a facsimile signature at the bottom of the picture).</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's another collection of newspaper cuttings, these were printed in 1947. I have a numbered list of 20, which may be a complete set. All three items shown above were intended to be carefully cut out. The middle part is the front cover. You were then meant to pearce the holes and tie string through them to turn the collection into a booklet.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1.  Billy Wright (Wolverhampton Wanderers)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2.  Ron Burgess (Tottenham Hotspur)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3.  Stan Mortensen (Blackpool)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4.  Neil Franklin (Stoke City)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5.  Stanley Matthews (Blackpool)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">6.  Jackie Milburn (Newcastle United)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">7.  Ted Ditchburn (Tottenham Hotspur)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">8.  Tom Finney (Preston North End)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">9.  Alf Ramsey (Southampton)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">10.  Frank Swift (Manchester City)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">11.  Ernie Jones (Tottenham Hotspur)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">12.  Jack Rowley (Manchester United)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">13.  Trevor Ford (Aston Villa)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">14.  Billy Hughes (Blackburn Rovers)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">15.  Henry Cockburn (Manchester United)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">16.  Ivor Powell (Aston Villa)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">17.  Johnny Carey (Manchester United)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">18.  Reg Flewin (Portsmouth)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">19.  Joe Harvey (Newcastle United)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">20.  Billy Steel (Derby County)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>

Sunday Disptach - Sunday Disptach Sports Album ~ Football League Stars

1947 Sunday Disptach Sports Album - Football League Stars Sunday  Dispatch 20 Mike Prior has sent in a scan of an item that is interesting.....

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