
The History of Football
You're Dead to Me
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Did They Have Transfers in the Nineteenth Century?
Footballers used to get about two pounds in the er playing season, and about a pound in th off season. So if it was a fairly precarious way of earning a living, would he have been full time then, full time footballer? Well, as much as he could in the season. Eem but very often they become publicans, or working in pubs, or work in other occupations. Some are also professional cricketers in the off season, to try to earn a living from sport all year round. Just of thewayfeseltical ranges. It's like that. That'll see us three for the rest of the drive. Did they have transfer gossip in the nineteenth
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