Matthews, Sir Stanley

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Sir Stanley Matthews was the first professional soccer player to be knighted. His professional career spanned 34 years; he retired in 1965, at the age of 50, having made nearly 700 League appearances for Stoke City and Blackpool and played for England 56 times.

The son of a professional featherweight boxer, Stanley Matthews was born in 1915 near Stoke-on-Trent, in the Potteries, and joined Stoke City straight from school at the age of fourteen. He became a professional in 1932. Known for his remarkable dribbling skills and his exemplary sportsmanship, he was often referred to as "the first gentleman of soccer".

Matthews died in 2000, at the age of 85.

Last updated: March 16, 2009.

(b. Cincinnati, Ohio, 21 July 1824; d. Washington, D.C., 22 Mar. 1889; interred Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati), associate justice, 1881–1889. Thomas Stanley Matthews was the first child of Thomas Johnson Matthews, a professor of mathematics and natural history at Sylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, and Isabella Brown. He preferred to be called Stanley and dropped his first name as an adult. Matthews entered Kenyon College as a junior and graduated in 1840. He read law for two years and then moved to Maury County, Tennessee, where he began a law practice and edited a newspaper. In 1844 he married Mary Ann black and after her death in 1885 he wed Mary Theaker of Washington, D.C.

Matthews was originally nominated to the Supreme Court on 26 January 1881 by President Rutherford B. Hayes to replace retiring Justice Noah H. Swayne. President Hayes, a fellow Ohioan, lifelong friend, and political colleague of his nominee, met Matthews when the two men were undergraduates at Kenyon College. Matthews served under Hayes in the Twenty‐third Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War, and in the disputed presidential election of 1876, Matthews argued the case for the Hayes‐Republican electors against the Tilden‐Democrats in the electoral commission inquiry in Louisiana.

Matthews met bitter opposition and the Senate took no action on the nomination. It was only after Hayes's successor, President James A. Garfield (also from Ohio), renominated him on 14 March 1881 that Matthews was confirmed on 12 May 1881 by a vote of 24 to 23. Opposition to Matthews's nomination was rooted in his work as legal counsel to railroad and corporate interests and several political controversies in which he reluctantly had taken part. One of these, apparently distorted by opponents at his confirmation, was his prosecution as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Ohio (1858–1861) in 1859 of a newspaper reporter for aiding in the escape of two fugitive slaves. Some critics suggested that Matthews, who had embraced abolitionism, had sold his conscience for political favor. The specter of this case had been revived earlier to help defeat Matthews in his bid for a congressional seat in 1876, though he won a Senate seat the following year (1877–1879).

Justice Matthews served only seven years and ten months, yet in that short period he authored an impressive 232 opinions and five dissents. Matthews was a craftsman and realist rather than an ideologue. His two most famous opinions, undisturbed as precedent after more than a century, are Hurtado v. California (1884) and Yick Wo v. Hopkins (1886). Both illustrate Matthews's progressive and pragmatic approach to constitutional law.

In Hurtado, Matthews rejected the argument that the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments' “due process of law” provision required states to seek grand jury indictments or presentments in prosecuting felonies. Against the argument promoted by Hurtado's counsel that grand jury indictments were an ancient requirement of English common law, Matthews argued that this “would be to deny every quality of the law but its age, and to render it incapable of progress or improvement” (p. 529). Instead of looking at the form of the requirement of due process, Matthews concluded that if the defendant was given fair notice of the charge and sufficient time to prepare a defense, then the purposes of due process protection was satisfied.

Matthews's Yick Wo opinion stands as one of the few minority rights opinions in the post‐Reconstruction era and is a marvel of realistic jurisprudence. He looked beyond the neutral language of San Francisco's ordinance regulating the operation of public laundries to the statistically disparate application of the ordinance against Chinese laundry proprietors to find a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause. His classic statement stands as the basis of all twentieth‐century public civil rights disparate impact cases: “Though the law itself be fair on its face and impartial in appearance, yet, if it is applied and administered by public authority with an evil eye and an unequal hand, so as practically to make unjust and illegal discrimination between persons in similar circumstances, material to their rights, and denial of equal justice is still within the prohibition of the Constitution” (pp. 373–374).

Bibliography

• Charles T. Greve, Stanley Matthews, in Great American Lawyers: A History of the Legal Profession in America, edited by William Draper Lewis, vol. 7 (1909), pp. 393–427

— N.E.H. Hull

Matthews, Sir Stanley (1915-2000). Footballer. Born at Hanley in the Potteries, Matthews made his début for Stoke City in 1932 and his first appearance for England in 1934. From 1947 to 1961 he played for Blackpool, returned to Stoke from 1961, and retired at the age of 50. He was knighted on his retirement.

• Born: July 21, 1824, Cincinnati, Ohio
• Education: Kenyon College, B.A., 1840
• Previous government service: assistant prosecuting attorney, Hamilton County, Ohio, 1845; clerk, Ohio House of Representatives, 1848–49; judge, Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas, 1851–53; Ohio Senate, 1855–58; U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, 1858–61; judge, Superior Court of Cincinnati, 1863–65; counsel, Hayes-Tilden electoral commission, 1877; U.S. senator from Ohio, 1877–79
• Appointed by President James A. Gar-field Mar. 14, 1881; replaced Noah Swayne, who retired
• Supreme Court term: confirmed by the Senate May 12, 1881, by a 24–23 vote; served until Mar. 22, 1889
• Died: Mar. 22, 1889, Washington, D.C.

Stanley Matthews's political connections led to his appointment to the Supreme Court. He campaigned for Presidential candidate Rutherford B. Hayes in 1876. Then he served as a lawyer for Hayes in 1876. Then he served as a lawyer for Hayes at the 1877 electoral commission that decided the contested Presidential election in favor of Hayes. Consequently, Hayes appointed Matthews to fill a vacancy on the Court, but the Senate blocked the nomination. They recalled his involvement in a controversial federal case in 1859, when Matthews served as the U.S. attorney for southern Ohio. Although Matthews had sided publicly with the cause of abolishing slavery, he vigorously prosecuted an abolitionist for helping two fugitive slaves to escape to freedom. Many senators objected to Matthews because of his role as prosecuting attorney in this case. Matthews was renominated by President Hayes's successor, James A. Garfield, but he was still opposed by many senators and was barely confirmed, by a vote of 24–23.

The controversy about Matthews's appointment to the Court eventually died down and he served satisfactorily as an associate justice. He wrote 232 opinions for the Court and 5 dissents in a Supreme Court career of less than eight years.

Stanley Matthews served as associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1881 to 1889. A longtime friend and adviser to President Rutherford B. Hayes, Matthews proved an effective and hardworking member of the Court during his brief tenure. His 1859 prosecution of a reporter for aiding the escape of two fugitive slaves proved politically embarrassing in later years. On the other hand, his opinion in Yick Wo v. Hopkins, 118 U.S. 356, 6 S. Ct. 1064, 30 L. Ed. 220 (1886), established an enduring principle of equal protection analysis under the Fourteenth Amendment.

Matthews was born July 21, 1824, in Cincinnati. He preferred his middle name and dropped his first name, Thomas, in his adult life. He graduated from Kenyon College in 1840 and then studied law in Cincinnati. He was admitted to the Tennessee bar in 1842 and began a law practice in Columbia, Tennessee. Matthews also devoted himself to journalism, editing the Tennessee Democrat newspaper. He returned to Ohio in 1845 to become editor of the Cincinnati Morning Herald.

Soon Matthews was drawn into politics and public service. He became clerk of the Ohio House of Representatives in 1848, then left in 1851 to sit as judge on the court of common pleas in Hamilton County, Ohio. He was elected to the Ohio Senate in 1855, where he served until 1857.

Matthews was appointed U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Ohio in 1858. In 1859 he prosecuted W.B. Connelly, a local reporter, under the federal Fugitive Slave Act, for assisting two runaway slaves. Though Matthews was an abolitionist, he duly enforced the law. Critics charged him with forsaking his conscience in the hope of furthering his legal and political careers. Matthews never escaped the taint of these accusations.

When the Civil War broke out, Matthews enlisted in the Twenty-third Ohio Infantry as a lieutenant colonel, under the command of Hayes, a college classmate and friend. He left the army in 1863, following his election as a judge of the Cincinnati Superior Court. He held that post until 1865, when he resumed his private law practice.

Matthews aided his friend Hayes in the 1876 presidential election, against Samuel J. Tilden, the Democratic governor of New York. An electoral commission was formed by Congress in early 1877 to resolve disputes over the electoral votes in several states. Matthews represented Hayes and the Republican party, successfully arguing that Hayes should be awarded all the disputed votes and thus become president.

Matthews was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1877. In 1880 Hayes nominated him to the Supreme Court. The Senate rejected his nomination, in part because of his 1859 prosecution of Connelly under the fugitive slave law and also because he had represented railroads and corporations in his law practice. Some senators argued that this would affect Matthews's judgment in cases on these issues.

In 1881 President James Garfield nominated Matthews to the Court. This time he was confirmed by one vote.

During his nearly eight years on the Court, Matthews authored 232 opinions and five dissents. In Hurtado v. California, 110 U.S. 516, 4 S. Ct. 111, 28 L. Ed. 232 (1884), Matthews rejected the idea that the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments' due process provisions required states to prosecute citizens solely through the grand jury indictment process. Matthews wrote that as long as the defendant had notice and an opportunity to prepare a defense to the charges, due process was provided.

Matthews is most famous for his opinion in Yick Wo. In this opinion Matthews invalidated a San Francisco ordinance requiring owners of laundries housed in wooden buildings to obtain permission from the city government to continue the operation of their business. Although the language of the ordinance was neutral, it was administered in such a way that Chinese laundry owners were denied licenses and nearly all non-Chinese applicants were granted licenses. Matthews looked past the neutral language to strike down the ordinance as a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause, concluding that unequal application of the ordinance furthered "unjust and illegal discrimination." Matthews's opinion became the foundation for modern civil rights cases involving disparate impact, in which discrimination is established by statistical inequality rather than through proof of intentional discrimination.

Matthews died March 22, 1889, in Washington, D.C.

For the Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, see Stanley Matthews (lawyer).

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Sir Stanley Matthews

Personal information
Full name	Stanley Matthews
Date of birth	1 February 1915(1915-02-01)
Place of birth	Hanley, England
Date of death	23 February 2000 (aged 85)
Place of death	Stoke-on-Trent, England
Playing position	Outside right
Youth career
	Stoke St. Peter's
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps (Gls)†
1932-1947	Stoke City	259 (51)
1947-1961	Blackpool	391 (17)
1961-1965	Stoke City	059 0(3)
1970	Hibernians
Total		709 (71)
National team
1934-1957	England	054 (11)
Teams managed
1965-1968	Port Vale
1970-1971	Hibernians
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Sir Stanley Matthews, CBE (1 February 1915 – 23 February 2000) was an English football player. Often regarded as one of the greats of the English game, he is the only player to have been knighted while still playing, as well as being the first winner of both the European Footballer of the Year and the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year awards. His nicknames included The Wizard of the Dribble and The Magician. A vegetarian teetotaller, he kept fit enough to play at the top level until he was 50 years old, the oldest player ever to play in England's top football division. He played his final competitive game in 1970, at the age of 55, for Hibernians in Malta, which team he also coached at the time. Matthews was also an inaugural inductee to the English Football Hall of Fame in 2002 to honour his contribution to the English game.^[1]

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 Playing career 1.3 Management career 1.4 Retirement 2 Legacy 2.1 Praise 3 Football honours 4 Statistics 5 Notes 6 References 7 External links

Biography

Early life

Matthews was born in a terraced house in Seymour Street, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. He was the third of four sons born to local boxer Jack Matthews (aka The Fighting Barber of Hanley), who fostered a sense of discipline, determination and sportsmanship that would serve his son well during his long career.

As a child, Stanley Matthews attended St Luke's School near his home.

In the summer of 1934, Stanley married Betty Vallance, daughter of Stoke trainer Jimmy Vallance and granddaughter of early Rangers pioneer Tom Vallance.

Playing career

A natural outside right showing early promise, Matthews played for England Schoolboys against Wales and left Stoke St. Peter's to sign professional forms with Stoke City in 1932. His international debut came in 1934, scoring for an England side that beat Wales 4-0. Matthews also played in the famous Battle of Highbury where England defeated the World Champions Italy 3-2 with a brace from Eric Brook and one goal from Ted Drake. Matthews later recollected that this was the most violent match that he had been involved in with Brook suffering a broken arm and Drake acquiring two black eyes^[2]. Shortly after this, Matthews was condemned in the Daily Mail:

"I saw Matthews play just as moderately in the recent inter-League match, exhibiting the same slowness and hesitation. Perhaps he lacks the big match temperament."

The inaccuracy of this appraisal was soon illustrated by Matthews' hat-trick for 10-man England in a game against Czechoslovakia in 1937.

In 1938, Matthews asked for a transfer, causing a public outcry in Stoke. More than 3,000 fans attended a protest meeting and a further 1,000 marched outside the ground with placards. Matthews stayed.

The Second World War interrupted his career, during which time he served in the Royal Air Force and was stationed near Blackpool. Surviving records show that he played as a guest for clubs such as Blackpool, Crewe Alexandra, Manchester United, Wrexham, Arsenal, Airdrie^[3], Greenock Morton^[3], Stenhousemuir and Rangers^[3] during this time. He even appeared for a Scots XI. After the war, he fell out with Stoke and was transferred to Blackpool on 10 May 1947 for £11,500 at the age of 32.^[4]

"You're 32, do you think you can make it for another couple of years?" - Blackpool manager Joe Smith, in 1947.

During an international against Italy in 1948, with England 4-0 up, Matthews went on a run to the corner flag to waste time. On getting there, he wiped the sweat from his hands on his shorts, and before his marker could arrive, pushed his hair back into place. People in the crowd believed Matthews had been audacious enough to pull a comb from his shorts pocket and comb his hair. As revealed in his autobiography, this legend followed Sir Stanley throughout his lifetime. He won the inaugural Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year award in 1948.

His link-up with Stan Mortensen was very profitable, and Matthews won an FA Cup winners medal in 1953 - a match subsequently dubbed the 'Matthews Final' in which, despite Mortensen's hat-trick, his outstanding dribbling in the last 30 minutes of the match when Blackpool were 3-1 down more than contributed to his finally earning the medal which had eluded him in the finals of 1948 and 1951. With Blackpool spending the entire 1950s in England's top division, including a highest-ever finish of second in 1956, the decade was the most successful in the club's history to date. Matthews was at the club throughout the 50s as was goalkeeper George Farm, defenders Hugh Kelly and Tommy Garrett, forward Jackie Mudie and outside left Bill Perry.

In 1950, Matthews only played in one World Cup game (a 1-0 defeat against Spain).

In total, Matthews made 54 official England appearances scoring 11 goals (as well as 29 unofficial wartime appearances with 2 goals). His England career is the longest of any player ever to play for the side, stretching from his debut on 29 September 1934 to his last appearance on 15 May 1957, almost 23 years later, an appearance which, as of 2009, makes him the oldest player ever to appear for England. His importance to the team is exemplified by the post-war circumstances he found himself in. He was excluded from the team for most of the 1946-47 season in favour of another England great - Tom Finney. He returned to the team in triumph, however, as England beat Portugal 10-0. A year later, he ran the Italian left-back ragged, helping England to a 4-0 win in Turin.

At the 1954 FIFA World Cup in Switzerland, England found themselves struggling against Belgium, so Matthews promptly switched to inside-forward, galvanised the team, and helped them to a 4-4 draw. When England beat Scotland 7-2 in 1955, the 40-year-old Matthews created five of the goals. Duncan Edwards was making his England debut; when Matthews made his, Edwards had not even been born.

Matthews travelled to various parts of the globe to take part in exhibition matches and was famous worldwide. For example, he attracted a large crowd at Hartleyvale in Cape Town when he appeared there in about 1956.

In 1956, Matthews won the first-ever European Footballer of the Year (Ballon d'Or) award, and the following year was awarded a CBE in the New Year's honours list.

In 1961 (aged 46) he rejoined his home town club, Stoke City. The following season, Stoke City won the English Second Division Championship and he was voted Footballer of the Year for the second time in his career. He remained with the Potters until the end of his playing career, appearing in his final game on 6 February 1965, just after his 50th birthday, when he played for the first time in 12 months owing to a knee injury, setting up the equaliser for his team. Even at the age of 50, he always claimed that he had retired 'too early'. A testimonial match in honour of Sir Stanley was played in April 1965 at the Victoria Ground, where 35,000 people watched a 10-goal thriller against a World XI side that included greats such as Lev Yashin, Josef Masopust, Ferenc Puskás and Alfredo Di Stéfano. Matthews was carried shoulder-high from the field at full-time.^[5] Also in 1965, he became the first football player to be knighted for services to sport.

During the twilight of Matthews' career, his son, also named Stanley, was achieving some sporting fame of his own, as a tennis player.^[6] He became Wimbledon Boy's Champion in 1962^[7] and a professional of the sport in the 1970s.

Management career

After playing 709 games in the Football League, Matthews was appointed general manager at Stoke's rivals Port Vale in July 1965 alongside Jackie Mudie. Matthews' focus was on developing a youth policy, a choice perhaps influenced by the failed policy of big money signings under previous manager Freddie Steele. Handed complete managerial control following Mudie's resignation in May 1967, Matthews couldn't guide the Vale to glory.^[8] Rather the opposite, as the club were fined £4,000 in February/March 1968 and expelled from the Football League for financial irregularities.^[8] Standing down as manager in May 1968, despite being owed £9,000 in salary in expenses he agreed to stay at Vale Park to continue his work with the youth team. A 'final settlement' was reached in December 1970, Matthews was given £3,300, with the other £7,000 he was owed to be written off.^[8] Player Roy Sproson later said that "he [Matthews] trusted people who should never have been trusted and people took advantage of him. I am convinced a lot of people sponged off him and, all the while, the club were sliding."^[9]

After this he moved to Malta, where he coached the Hibernians, also playing for them until he was 55. He spent a brief period as President of non-league club Walton & Hersham.

He continued playing for numerous local sides, meaning that he was still running down the wing in his 60s. He also coached "Stan's Men" in Soweto (South Africa), Australia, the USA and Canada. He even played in a charity match at Grangemouth as late as 1981.

He later served as president of Stoke City, honorary vice-president of Blackpool and president of the City Vale Club.

Retirement

Matthews received a FIFA Gold Merit Order in 1992.

Sir Stanley Matthews died in February 2000, three weeks after his 85th birthday. His death was announced on radio just before the start of an England vs Argentina friendly match. He was cremated following a funeral service in Stoke on 3 March 2000. His funeral was attended by many footballing greats, such as Bobby and Jack Charlton, Gordon Banks, Nat Lofthouse and Tom Finney. His ashes were buried beneath the centre circle of the Britannia Stadium (Stoke City's home since their relocation from the Victoria Ground in 1997).

Legacy

Matthews was made an Inaugural Inductee of the English Football Hall of Fame in 2002 in recognition of his talents.

The International Federation of Football History & Statistics voted him the 11th greatest footballer of the 20th century.^[10]

After his death, more than 100,000 people lined the streets of Stoke-on-Trent to pay tribute. As the cortège wound its way along the 12-mile route, employees downed tools and schoolchildren stood motionless to witness his final passing.^[11]

There is a statue of Matthews outside Stoke City's Britannia Stadium and another in the centre of Hanley. The dedication on the former reads: His name is symbolic of the beauty of the game, his fame timeless and international, his sportsmanship and modesty universally acclaimed. A magical player, of the people, for the people.

During his career he gained respect not only as a great player but also as a gentleman. This is exemplified by the fact that despite playing in nearly seven hundred league games, he was never booked.^{[citation needed]}

The Stanley Matthews Collection is held by the National Football Museum.

1 February has been made an unofficial 'Sir Stanley Matthews Day', one of the themes of which is to promote dress-down days in which staff in offices are encouraged to come to work in football shirts. The idea is to 'Wear it with Pride for Sir Stan' to raise money for the The Stanley Matthews Foundation which provides sports opportunities for under-privileged young people in the Stoke-on-Trent area, although this hopes to be expanded in the future. In 2007 a badge in the shape of his number "7" was introduced to replace the wearing of sports shirts.^{[citation needed]}

Praise

"The man who taught us the way football should be played" - Pelé

"I grew up in an era when he was a god to those of us who aspired to play the game. He was a true gentleman and we shall never see his like again" - Brian Clough

"It is not just in England where his name is famous. All over the world he is regarded as a true football genius" - Berti Vogts

"For me this man probably had the greatest name of any player ever, certainly in Britain. I don't think anyone since had a name so synonymous with football in England" - Gordon Banks

"He [Stanley Matthews] told me that he used to play for just twenty pounds a week. Today he would be worth all the money in the Bank of England" - Gianfranco Zola

Football honours

Blackpool

• FA Cup winner: 1953

Stoke City (second spell)

• Football League Second Division winner: 1962/63

Individual

• 1948:Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year
• 1956:European Footballer of the Year (Ballon d'Or)
• 1957:CBE
• 1963:Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year
• 1965:Knight Bachelor
• 1992:FIFA Gold Medal Order
• 2002:English Football Hall of Fame

Statistics

Club performance			League		Cup		Total
Season	Club	League	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
England			League		FA Cup		Total
1931-32	Stoke City	Second Division	2	0	0	0	0	0
1932-33			15	1	0	0	0	0
1933-34		First Division	29	11	4	4	33	15
1934-35			36	10	1	1	37	11
1935-36			40	10	5	0	45	10
1936-37			40	7	2	0	42	7
1937-38			38	6	3	0	41	6
1938-39			36	2	2	0	38	2
1939-40			3	0	0	0	3	0
1945-46			0	0	8	0	8	0
1946-47			20	4	5	1	25	5
1947-48	Blackpool	First Division	35	1	6	1	41	2
1948-49			26	3	3	0	29	3
1949-50			31	0	3	0	34	0
1950-51			38	0	8	0	46	0
1951-52			19	1	1	0	20	1
1952-53			24	4	7	1	31	5
1953-54			32	2	7	0	39	2
1954-55			33	1	1	0	34	1
1955-56			36	3	1	0	37	3
1956-57			24	2	4	0	28	2
1957-58			30	0	1	0	31	0
1958-59			19	0	6	0	25	0
1959-60			15	0	0	0	15	0
1960-61			27	0	1	0	28	0
1961-62			2	0	0	0	2	0
1961-62	Stoke City	Second Division	18	2	3	1	21	3
1962-63			31	1	0	0	31	1
1963-64		First Division	9	0	4	1	13	1
1964-65			1	0	0	0	1	0
Total	England		709	71	86	10	795	81
Career Total			709	71	86	10	795	81

Notes

1. ^ "The Fans Vote Dennis Bergkamp into the National Football Museum Hall of Fame 2007". nationalfootballmuseum.com. http://www.nationalfootballmuseum.com/pages/news/latest/Hall%20of%20Fame%202007%20public%20vote.htm. Retrieved 2009-06-16. 
2. ^ http://www.ufwc.co.uk/2007/01/ufwc-classic-england-vs-italy-1934/
3. ^ ^{a b c} Rollin, Jack (2005). Soccer at War 1939-45. pp. 169. ISBN 0-7553-1431-X. 
4. ^ Calley, Roy (1992). Blackpool: A Complete Record 1887-1992. Breedon Books Sport.
5. ^ "Sir Stanley Matthews' Testimonial remembered". BBC News. 2005. http://www.bbc.co.uk/stoke/local_heroes/sir_stan/testimonial.shtml. Retrieved 2007-08-09. 
6. ^ Flatman, Barry; The Times (June 12, 2005). "The top 10 great white hopes of British tennis". http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/article532462.ece. Retrieved 2009-06-16. 
7. ^ "Stanley Matthews: Sporting family with tennis spring". The Sentinel. July 24, 2008. http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/sirstan/Stanley-Matthews-Sporting-family-tennis-springarticle-236289-details/article.html. Retrieved 2009-06-16. 
8. ^ ^{a b c} Kent, Jeff (1996). Port Vale Personalities. Witan Books. p. 187. ISBN 0952915200. http://www.amazon.ca/Port-Vale-Personalities-Jeff-Kent/dp/0952915200. 
9. ^ Harper, Chris (February 17th 1975). "Meet the Managers". The Sentinel. http://www.sprosonfund.com/Stories/meetthemanagers.html. Retrieved 2009-06-23. 
10. ^ http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/iffhs-century.html
11. ^ The Sentinel, 19 November 2005

References

• Matthews, S (2000), "My Autobiography; The Way It Was", Headline, London
• The Sentinel - North Staffordshire's daily newspaper
• Matthews' profile at Neil Brown's player database

External links

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• Stanley Matthews career stats at Soccerbase
• Stanley Matthews management career stats at Soccerbase
• A Short Profile at Blackpool F.C.'s site
• Stan!
• The Matthews Final at the FA's site
• The Sir Stanley Matthews Foundation
• Hall of Fame/stanleymatthews.htm Profile at the English Football Hall of Fame
• The Farewell Match
• A photograph of Stanley Matthews reunited with Bill Perry and the FA Cup at Blackpool F.C.'s site

v • d • e England squad – 1950 FIFA World Cup GK Ditchburn • GK Williams • DF Aston • DF Eckersley • DF Ramsey • DF Scott • DF Taylor • DF Wright • MF Baily • MF Cockburn • MF Dickinson • MF Hughes • MF Nicholson • MF Watson • FW Bentley • FW Finney • FW Mannion • FW Matthews • FW Milburn • FW Mortensen • FW Mullen • Coach: Winterbottom

v • d • e England squad – 1954 FIFA World Cup 1 Merrick • 2 Staniforth • 3 Byrne • 4 Wright • 5 Owen • 6 Dickinson • 7 Matthews • 8 Broadis • 9 Lofthouse • 10 Taylor • 11 Finney • 12 Burgin • 13 Green • 14 McGarry • 15 Wilshaw • 16 Quixall • 17 Mullen • 18 Chilton • 19 Armstrong • 20 Jezzard • 21 Haynes • 22 Hooper • Coach: Winterbottom

v • d • e Port Vale F.C. – Managers Hood (1876–96) · Gleaves (1896–1905) · Clare (1905–11) · Walker (1911–12) · Myatt (1912–14) · Holford (1914–18) · Cameron (1918–19) · Schofield (1919–29) · Morgan (1929–32) · Holford (1932–35) · Cresswell (1936–37) · Morgan (1937–38) · Diffin (1944) · Pratt (1944–45) · Frith (1945–46) · Hodgson (1946–51) · Powell (1951) · Steele (1951–57) · Low (1957–62) · Steele (1962–65) · Mudie (1965–67) · Matthews (1967–68) · Lee (1968–74) · Sproson (1974–77) · Harper (1977) · Smith (1977–78) · Butler (1978–79) · Bloor (1979) · Bentley (1979) · McGrath (1979–83) · Rudge (1984–99) · Dearden and Grew (1999) · Horton (1999–2004) · Foyle (2004–07) · Glover (2007) · Sinnott (2007–08) · Glover and Porter (2008) · Glover (2008–09) · Adams (2009–) Italics indicates caretaker-manager roles

v • d • e Ballon d'Or 1956: Matthews | 1957: di Stéfano | 1958: Kopa | 1959: di Stéfano | 1960: Suárez | 1961: Sívori | 1962: Masopust | 1963: Yashin | 1964: Law | 1965: Eusébio | 1966: Charlton | 1967: Albert | 1968: Best | 1969: Rivera | 1970: Müller | 1971: Cruyff | 1972: Beckenbauer | 1973: Cruyff | 1974: Cruyff | 1975: Blokhin | 1976: Beckenbauer | 1977: Simonsen | 1978: Keegan | 1979: Keegan | 1980: Rummenigge | 1981: Rummenigge | 1982: Rossi | 1983: Platini | 1984: Platini | 1985: Platini | 1986: Belanov | 1987: Gullit | 1988: van Basten | 1989: van Basten | 1990: Matthäus | 1991: Papin | 1992: van Basten | 1993: Baggio | 1994: Stoichkov | 1995: Weah | 1996: Sammer | 1997: Ronaldo | 1998: Zidane | 1999: Rivaldo | 2000: Figo | 2001: Owen | 2002: Ronaldo | 2003: Nedvěd | 2004: Shevchenko | 2005: Ronaldinho | 2006: Cannavaro | 2007: Kaká | 2008: C. Ronaldo | 2009: TBD

v • d • e FWA Footballer of the Year 1948: Matthews | 1949: Carey | 1950: Mercer | 1951: Johnston | 1952: Wright | 1953: Lofthouse | 1954: Finney | 1955: Revie | 1956: Trautmann | 1957: Finney | 1958: Blanchflower | 1959: Owen | 1960: Slater | 1961: Blanchflower | 1962: Adamson | 1963: Matthews | 1964: Moore | 1965: Collins | 1966: B. Charlton | 1967: J. Charlton | 1968: Best | 1969: Book/Dave Mackay | 1970: Bremner | 1971: McLintock | 1972: Banks | 1973: Jennings | 1974: Callaghan | 1975: Mullery | 1976: Keegan | 1977: Hughes | 1978: Burns | 1979: Dalglish | 1980: McDermott | 1981: Thijssen | 1982: Perryman | 1983: Dalglish | 1984: Rush | 1985: Southall | 1986: Lineker | 1987: Allen | 1988: Barnes | 1989: Nicol | 1990: Barnes | 1991: Strachan | 1992: Lineker | 1993: Waddle | 1994: Shearer | 1995: Klinsmann | 1996: Cantona | 1997: Zola | 1998: Bergkamp | 1999: Ginola | 2000: Keane | 2001: Sheringham | 2002: Pirès | 2003: Henry | 2004: Henry | 2005: Lampard | 2006: Henry | 2007: C. Ronaldo | 2008: C. Ronaldo | 2009: Gerrard

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