20. Right Winger.
English international Sir Stanley Matthews, born in Stoke-on-Trent in 1915, only ever played for two professional clubs. Which club did he spend most time with, albeit interrupted by a very successful stint at the other?
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Answer:
Stoke City
Although loads of big clubs were interested in the young Stanley Matthews, he decided to sign with Stoke City in 1932. The club ended the season with promotion to the First Division, at that time the top tier of English football. His first goal for the club, which he netted that season, was against the team he had supported as a lad and Stoke's arch-rivals, Port Vale. Despite having become a star player, his rocky relationship with the board of Stoke City came to a head in 1947, and Matthews put in a transfer request that was accepted. He chose Blackpool as his new club, partly because he had been stationed there during World War II (in which he served in the RAF), and had made the seaside town his home.
Despite being no spring chicken, Matthews was at the top of his game whilst at Blackpool and is still a club hero. The team won the FA Cup in 1953, and the final has become known as The Matthews Final as he led the team, who were losing 3-1 to Bolton Wanderers at one point, to a thrilling victory thanks to two late goals: Stan Mortensen scored in the 89th minute, Bill Perry in the 92nd. Whilst at Blackpool, Matthews was still playing for England. In 1957 he played against Denmark in a World Cup qualifying match aged forty-two. It proved to be his last match in an England shirt as he didn't go on to play in the 1958 World Cup, although many thought he should have.
In 1961, aged forty-six years old, Matthews went back to Stoke City. During his second stint at the club he became the first English footballer to be knighted whilst still playing professionally. He retired from the game in 1965, having never received a booking.
He played for Stoke City from 1932 to 1947, then again from 1961 to 1965. He played for Blackpool from 1947 to 1961.
Matthews coached in African countries from the 1950s, through the 1960s, and most of the 1970s during the summer break. In 1975 he put together an all-black team of schoolboys, blatantly ignoring apartheid laws. He even got them a tour of Brazil.
Definitely the king of the football nice guys, Stanley Matthews could teach later upstarts with their twitter rants, tantrums and egos a trick or two about humility and decorum, and even football.
Sir Stanley Matthews died in Stoke-on-Trent in 200 aged 85 years old.
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