Sir Stanley gained 54 England caps before retiring in 1965, aged 50. The first contract signed by football legend Sir Stanley Matthews has sold at auction for more than £4,000. The contract ...

All rise and applaud Sir Stanley Matthews, a soccer icon whose influence transcended generations. Born on February 1, 1915, in Stoke-on-Trent, England, Matthews was a pioneer of the beautiful game ...

Sir Stanley Matthews was at the height of his fame when he visited Ghana in 1956. He was mobbed on arrival in Ghana and more than 80,000 turned up to watch his first three matches.

Stanley Matthews’s first professional contract has been unearthed - showing England’s finest-ever player earned a paltry £5-a-week. Article continues below The so-called Wizard of the Dribble ...

Sir Stanley Matthews was the first player to win the European Footballer of the Year award, ... Stanley Matthews and 16 Great Wingers in World Football History. Mark Jones Jun 8, 2018.

Five days after his 50th birthday, the newly-knighted Sir Stanley Matthews ended his remarkable career. After 710 games for Stoke and Blackpool and 54 England caps, his last game was a league ...

JEAN GOUGH was a proud 14-year-old who watched her beloved dad Sir Stanley Matthews receive his FA Cup winners medal from the Queen at Wembley in 1953. Jump directly to the content.

Matthews initially joined Stoke as a 15-year-old office boy in 1930 and signed professional terms two years later. But while Neymar will make more than £750,000-per-week in Paris, Matthews first ...

The remarkable story of Sir Stanley Matthews's final game, five days after he'd turned 50. The only footballer to be knighted before retiring played his final game on this day in 1965.

Late Blackpool footballer Sir Stanley Matthews's five-bedroom home where he lived in the Lancashire seaside town in the 1950s is now up for sale for a modest £320,000.