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Museum President, Sir Bobby Charlton, pays tribute to the Museum in his autobiography
National Football Museum president, Sir Bobby Charlton, has paid tribute to the Museum and Sir Stanley Matthews in his recently published autobiography, Sir Bobby Charlton .The Autobiography. My Manchester United Years.
In the book Sir Bobby recalls him and his brother Jack watching Sir Stanley Matthews play:
“As I stood with Jack on the terraces I could not have imagined that one day I would be invited to be President of the National Football Museum in Preston…Whenever I go to the Museum I insist on looking again at the refurbished film of the ‘Matthews Final' in the1953 FA Cup when he systematically undermined that most formidable of Bolton full backs, Ralph Banks. It still makes the hairs on my neck stand up when he pounces, cat-like, on Banks and then strides into daylight. The Bolton man had a huge reputation for destroying wingers, but you cannot destroy a target that dissolves before your eyes.”
The Museum recently unveiled the shirt, shorts and socks worn by Sir Stanley Matthews in the Matthews FA Cup Final of 1953, together with the shirt and shorts worn by Bolton full back Ralph Banks.
Sir Bobby Charlton. The Autobiography. My Manchester United Years, with James Lawton, is published by Headline.