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The World s First Football Superstar - The Life of Stephen Smith (Hardcover)
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The World s First Football Superstar - The Life of Stephen Smith (Hardcover)
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Buried in an unmarked grave in the churchyard of the small village
of Benson in Oxfordshire lies the body of a footballing world
champion from a bygone era shrouded in the mists of time. His name
was Stephen Smith. This footballer of the Victorian and Edwardian
era could claim as many league title winning medals as John Terry
and Wayne Rooney, more league winners medals than Eric Cantona,
Frank Lampard, Cristiano Ronaldo, Thierry Henry and Alan Shearer.
This book is the never before told story of a footballer born at
the end of the Industrial Revolution, son of agricultural labourers
who became a miner, working underground combining that job with one
as a professional footballer to rise to the top of the footballing
world. Smith won trophy after trophy in the best and only
professional league anywhere in the world at that time. He also
scored the goal that made England World Champions in 1895. Smith,
at the top of his game in a move that mirrored the Premier League
breakaway of 1992 and the recent ill-fated European Super League
then joined the newly formed Southern League at a time when the
Football League started to cap player wages. He did this in order
to ensure his family's future as well as end his reliance on his
part-time earnings from mining. Football's zeitgeist has
fundamentally changed very little in the last 130 years for those
inside the industry. This is the story of Stephen Smith and the
quest to find the support and funds to mark and commemorate one of
the most decorated yet underappreciated footballers in the history
of the game.
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