May 18, 2010 by Matt Horner | No Comments
Matthias Sindelar was one of the greatest footballers of his generation. Tall, blond, and athletic, Sindelar could have been a creation of Goebbels’ master race propaganda machine. However, the Austrian’s mysterious death, at the age of just 35, left many people questioning whether the player nicknamed ‘the Paper Man’ had been the victim of a [...]
May 4, 2010 by Diana Horner | No Comments
World War II cut short many a promising sports career. Brave men were in great demand for front line duties, and unsurprisingly, the guys who stood tall and strong on the touchline, also formed the core of many a crack fighting team on foreign soil. One such athlete, was Andrew ‘Jack’ Lummus, a Texan, who showed [...]
May 3, 2010 by Matt Horner | 1 Comment
Forget Sylvester Stallone’s dramatic penalty-saving antics in Escape to Victory, the most remarkable prisoner of war goalkeeper story belongs to former Manchester City stopper Bert Trautmann. German Trautmann’s incredible journey took him from Hitler Youth to Wembley, via the Eastern front and a spell in a north of England POW camp. Now aged 87, Trautmann [...]