Front Cover: Superb action photo of Newcastle United goalkeeper, Ron Simpson at Wembley, although beaten this shot hit the post. Ron kept goal for Newcastle in their 1952 & 1955 FA Cup winning teams, an excellent piece of pre-digital photography.

Back Cover Boy: George Aitken (Sunderland and Scotland)

Black and White Team Photographs:
Christchurch

An unbelievably dated and sexist article by Leslie Parsons on women and football, obviously written by a male Leslie!
Full page regular weekly column by West Ham's Harry Hooper
A very interesting piece on the beginnings of various clubs in 'Here's How it Happened'. Clubs covered are Arsenal, Tottenham, Man City, Aston Villa, Wolves, West Brom, Chelsea, Newcastle, Sunderland Middlesbrough, Preston and Luton
Centre page 'Soccer's Strangest Stories' looks at England giving the infamous Nazi salute before a 1936 match against Germany in Berlin. Inc England line-up in 1948 Turin, before match with Italy.
Some of the games current greats tell 'How they Became Star Players', Robledo, Mortensen, Bentley, Matthews and Lawton amongst others
1954/55 season diary continues.
Eric Batty's 'Football Around the World' weekly report
'Forget Me Not Lane' - A short story by Roy San
Soccandra - Emperor Haile Selassie spending 1 million on new football stadium in Ethiopia
Money willl suit southern club by Stewart Williams
Swap Corner

This is an issue that was bought from a soccer historian so is in immaculate condition but it has 2 punch holes.
With thanks to Mal Winkles for the review-see his ebay items "mal264"