Hero of every young footballer, Blackpool’s Stanley Matthews, is due in Watford tomorrow [December 9]. He is visiting the Watford Co-op, in St Albans Road, where he will sign autographs and, if time permits, talk to the boys about his career.
[From the Watford Observer of December 8, 1950]
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