Football in the First World War
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Leeds City - A History of the League of Legends
The source of the team that really shines within English football is Leeds City. They essentially recruited quite well from players from the northeast because those clubs down there shut down at Newcastle Sunday and partly because their directors took a very sort of sort of hard line approach to terms of like we shouldn't play football. So they were kind of not quite kicking their heels but playing at lower level semi pro level clubs. Clem Stevenson who was pre war young player Aston Villa but lived up in the northeast where it was from. He's an example of someone who had a very quiet you know sort of good war played top quality football part of this Leeds side.
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