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Neither the tidiest nor most spectacular of footballers, and frequently overshadowed by his partner in the ruck Allan Crabb, Don Laffin was nevertheless always wholehearted and honest in his approach to the game, and gave Glenelg consistently useful service over the course of a ten season career that ran from 1946 to 1955.
As a footballer, he played for most of his career as a rover, and he was selected in that position, changing in the forward pocket, in Sturt's official 'Team of the Twentieth Century'.
Jack Leith (sometimes mis-spelt 'Leath') began his senior football career in the VFA with Geelong, but it was only after transferring to Melbourne that he really rose to prominence.
www.fullpointsfooty.net /l.htm   (10274 words)

  
 1985 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
May 11 - Fire engulfs a wooden stand in the Valley Parade stadium in Bradford, England during a football match, killing 56.
May 25 - Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge which kills approximately 10,000 people.
May 29 - In the Heysel Stadium disaster at the European Cup final in Brussels, 39 football fans die and hundreds are injured.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1985   (2743 words)

  
 Liverpool Football Club @ Sport.Y2U.co.uk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Liverpool Football Club is not to be confused with Liverpool (Rugby) Football Club which was formed in 1858 and is now known as Liverpool St. Helens.
Liverpool won six Football League Championships in nine seasons while Paisley was manager, as well as lifting three European Cups, one UEFA Cup, three successive League Cups, one European Super Cup and three Charity Shields - a total of 21 trophies.
Liverpool's 1986 double success made history as they were only the fifth team in English football to achieve such a feat, and the first team to win the FA Cup without fielding a single English player.
sport.y2u.co.uk /Football_England/fa_0011_Liverpool.htm   (5601 words)

  
 2002 - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
May 23 - Irish Football Captain, Roy Keane, Is sent home from the Training Camp in Saipan, by Manager Mick McCarthy after an Argument over Training arrangements.
February 14 - NĂ¡ndor Hidegkuti, Hungarian footballer (b.
June 18 - Jack Buck, baseball announcer (b.
www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/2/0/0/2002.html   (4317 words)

  
 British 'Firsts'
He also worked out a formula that can be used to find the volume of any solid bounded by a ruled surface and two parallel planes.
With over ten times the tonnage of his first ship, it was the first ship to be built with a double iron hull.
He was the first Footballer of the Year in 1948 (again in 1963), the first European Footballer of the Year in 1956, and the first footballer to be knighted for services to the game in 1965.
www.fatbadgers.co.uk /Britain/firsts.htm   (6864 words)

  
 Geoff Slattery Publishing - GSP Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Dip in and out of this snappy volume to impress your mates and to discover things such as the game’s 10 most reported footballers; football’s worst fashion faux pas; the footy-related meanings of words such as “clanger” and “cordial”; and some wacky cures for injuries.
This stunning new hardback, written by award-winning sports journalist Terry Smith, features profiles and scores in each tournament from the past 100 years, amazing archival photographs and images, and profiles of all host courses.
The Brownlow: A Tribute To The Greats Of Australian Football is the definitive collection of Brownlow Medal stories covering each year and every winner from when Geelong’s Carji Greeves won the inaugural League best and fairest award in 1924, to Brisbane Lion Simon Black's win in 2002.
www.geoffslattery.com.au /GSPBooks2.html   (2529 words)

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