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[Beverley Sisters; Billy Wright, footballer] Substantial Autograph Ltter Signed Joy Beverley Wright to Hunter Davies, author and journalist, castigating him for false but amusing/interesting statements in his interview with her.

Author: 
[Beverley Sisters; Billy Wright, footballer] Joy Beverley (Wright)
Beverley
Publication details: 
Headed Beverley Sisters. Ridgewell, 87 Lyonsdown Rd, New Barnet, Herts EN5 1JT, 8 December
£120.00
Beverley

Two pages, cr.8vo, fold marks, good condition, clear handwriting. Thanks you for having the courtesy to write. However, I just cannot allow you to think for a moment that I accept your explanation for misquoting me throughout the piece. You even deceive yourself [dotted line under] into believing that you gave a true interpretation of the interview. I again must emphasise that I did not [underlined] say that Billy was 'physically lazy and a dead ;loss'. I said in fact 'Oh!

[Bobby Charlton, footballer] Autograph Signature.

Author: 
Bobby Charlton, footballer
Charlton
Publication details: 
[Docketed in pencil] Emirates | Sunday 1/5/2011
£20.00
Charlton

Signature on paper, 13.5 x 7cm, good condition. See Scan.

[Jimmy Hill and Graham Leggat at Fulham F.C.] Autograph Signatures of the two men, on photograph of Jimmy Hill, later the presenter of 'Match of the Day'.

Author: 
Jimmy Hill [James William Thomas Hill] (1928-2015), footballer with Fulham F.C., Chairman of the Professional Footballers' Association and TV pundit; Graham Leggat (1934-2015), Scottish footballer
Jimmy Hill
Publication details: 
No date but between 1958 and 1961, the period when the two men?s careers overlapped at Fulham.
£35.00
Jimmy Hill

See Hill's entry in the Oxford DNB. Signed 'Jimmy Hill' across Hill's chest on a 10 x 14 cm black and white photograph of him in football shirt with stands behind. Captioned: 'Jimmy HIll / Fulham F.C. - Inside Right / With the Compliments of W. H. Smith & Son / Booksellers Newsagents Stationers'. On a 12.5 x 19 cm piece of shiny paper. In fair condition, lightly aged and ruckled, with traces of pink paper mount and glue adhering to the blank reverse. The signature of 'Graham Leggat' is written up the right margin. See Image.

[Sir Stanley Matthews, great English footballer.] Autograph Signature on postcard with Blackpool Football Club letterhead.

Author: 
Sir Stanley Matthews (1915-2000), great English footballer who played outside right for Stoke City and Blackpool
Publication details: 
No date. On letterhead of Blackpool Football Club Limited, by whom Matthews was employed between 1947 and 1961.
£23.00

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. The postcard, which is blank on the reverse, has been cut down into an irregular shape, roughly rectangular and approximately 11 x 7.5 cm. At the head is the printed Blackpool FC letterhead (‘All communications to BLOOMFIELD ROAD GROUND, BLACKPOOL). Two strips of glue from tape flank the firm signature ‘Stanley Matthews’, which rises slightly and is underlined. Otherwise in good condition, lightly aged.

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