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Maybe it was the only legitimate photo of a tackle they had in his career
Yes that was attempted without success as if it worked it had a massive egg in it and, burst after five minutes
iirc, there was a heavier version, was it called a Wembley? - which cost a lot more. Still had those raised dimples on it though, you got one of those whacked on your leg or kisser you knew about it and so did everybody else as you had dimple imprints on your skin - worse if wet.The days of playing with a tennis ball, and a Frido it was like a balloon hence you soon learnt ball control - it often punctured easily especially when it went over the wall in the entries of a two up two down back yards, and they knifed it as we were a nuisance - we got it back and played with it burst until it fell apart
here's that famous ball -
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The wembley football was the real deal cost a hell of a lot though the Frido was about in today's money 12%1/2 p it was a cross between a balloon and a football but the dimples were blow up to maximum hard and your right if kicked hard against you leg it stung it also bent like a banana when you kicked it - the Wembley ball was a class ball but heavier and if you got the at in your nuts - you got TB = two beauties, I don't know how much they cost because we used them at school as part of their issue ... out of our price range as young kids..... also not worth the outlay as neighbors often burst the balls or they kept them as they were fed up of the noise of a game of footie and the odd window getting smashed......
a game we played in the road was to hit the opposite kerb without the ball bouncing that counted as a goal....
little did we know we were using valuable training skills for when we got in the school team......
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I remember as an apprentice we played in our dinner time (in steel toed safety boots) in the empty lorry yard, fitters and sparkies Vs factory workers (and some of those Speke girls were tough as nails) after ours burst they were that expensive we had to have a whip round to get one of those decent Wembley balls 3 shillings and 6d /17.5p and the cheap one was 9d
Everton's Dixie Dean and his teammates (also mascot) with the FA Cup at Lime Street Station 1933 -
3 Shillings and sixpence as young kids when most of us average 6d a tanner pocket money - those days - we would all chip in 2d to buy that Frido football at the corner shop - he must have done roaring business the amount of Frido footballs we went through .....
1963 we won the Charity shield v Manchester United at home - I am sure the 2nd half only was on ITV Granada in those days we hammered them two weeks later we went to Old Trafford and they hammered us in the league
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Two blues famous no 9s, and a player that saved us from relegation - GS, GV , and GS -
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Player Valuation: £80m
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1966 and the GV -
The GV player manager for Glentoran after leaving us.. -
