Summary
QUESTION In 1946-7, when I was a boy, I used to watch Arsenal from behind the goal opposite the clock. On one occasion, after half- time, the Arsenal goalkeeper came back smoking. Does anyone recall who this was?
KNOWING the discipline of Arsenal players in that post-war period, no player would have risked the wrath of the Highbury hierarchy by coming on to the playing field smoking a cigarette.See the full content of this document
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Player's, Anyone? ; Answers to Correspondents
As a spectator at that time I, like many supporters, was confused by the white Vick/menthol /ammonia stick that players used to clear their airways.
The goalkeepers who represented Arsenal FC in that 1946/47 season were George Hedley Swindin and Edward Hewitt Platt who, like most football...See the full content of this document
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