ABSTRACT
Sir Stanley Matthews is a culture in himself, a culture that in all too many areas of the game has been eroded. Never booked, let alone sent off. Always able to find time for the children crowding around the players’ entrance, for he knew that without them and their enthusiasm, the game's future was bleak. … Now I would be the last person to call for a return to… the slave wage structure of those days. But given the kind of adverse publicity the game got itself last year, and given the sums of money now involved in transfers and salaries and all the stories I keep reading in the newspapers, and all the various allegations kicking around, it is little wonder that the public might be concerned that the sport is too much driven by money and too little driven by sporting spirit. 1
