Forgotten Stories of Football

By: The Guardian
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  • Summary

  • The best football stories you’ve probably never heard before, written by some of the world’s leading sports journalists. Spanning over 100 years of sporting history from across the footballing planet, the stories are narrated by leading actors and feature rich sound design and specially composed music
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Episodes
  • How the white football was dismissed as an unwanted fad

    How the white football was dismissed as an unwanted fad
    Aug 31 2020
    The white ball was widely disliked during trials in 1927 and one manufacturer declared it ‘practically impossible to make’. It would take another 24 years for the Football League to give it the go-ahead
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    19 mins
  • The Colourful XI tragedy

    The Colourful XI tragedy
    Aug 12 2020
    Stories from the beautiful game that you may never have heard before, written by some of the world’s leading sports journalists, and spanning more than 100 years of sporting history from across the footballing planet. In the final episode of this series: 15 Dutch footballers were among 176 people who died in a 1989 plane crash. Edu Nandlal, one of the survivors, tells his story
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    23 mins
  • The France football captain who murdered for Hitler

    The France football captain who murdered for Hitler
    Aug 5 2020
    The best stories from the beautiful game that you may never have heard before, written by some of the world’s leading sports journalists, and spanning more than 100 years of sporting history from across the footballing planet. In this episode: Alex Villaplane said captaining France was ‘the happiest day of his life’. Fourteen years later he was shot dead for being a traitor.
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    13 mins

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