The World's First Football Superstar: The Life of Stephen Smith Arthur Owen
The World's First Football Superstar: The Life of Stephen Smith Arthur Owen Buried in an unmarked grave in the churchyard of the small village of Benson in Oxfordshire lies the body of a footballing…
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The World's First Football Superstar: The Life of Stephen Smith Arthur Owen
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. 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 laborers who became a miner, working underground combining that job with one as a professional footballer to rise to the top of the footballing world. His name was Stephen Smith.
He also scored the goal that made England World Smith won trophy after trophy in the best and only professional league anywhere in the world at that time.
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