Stanley Matthews
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Nov 5, 2026
ShaunHOST
He'd be like
GuyHOST
Stanley Matthews, wouldn't he? He's a bit like Stanley – yeah.
GuyHOST
So
ShaunHOST
there's some figures for you there as to –
Ben JonesHOST
They used to play a long time ago.
Ben JonesHOST
And it is Sir Stanley Matthews.
Ben JonesHOST
I think one of the players that has so much nostalgia attached to them and so much Britishness attached to them that we always accept that they were a great legend and an amazing player.
Ben JonesHOST
But we're going to look at him today and we're going to see just how good he was What do you think, then?
Gareth ThomasHOST
This is a tricky one, isn't it? Because, of course, now as we go further back, if you listen to our last episode, if you haven't gone and listened to it, where we looked at Eusebio, now we look at Stanley Matthews, who's an English football legend.
Gareth ThomasHOST
But we're back again a little bit further now.
Gareth ThomasHOST
He started his career in the 1930s.
Gareth ThomasHOST
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Jason BurkeHOST
Second World War, there was... a lesser number of connections to the war.
Jason BurkeHOST
But Linfield actually tried to sign Sir Stanley Matthews during the Second World War because he was stationed here, which was something that I learned fairly recently.
Jason BurkeHOST
It turned out he only stayed here for a couple of weeks and so it wasn't possible to get the deal over the line.
Jason BurkeHOST
But Linfield actually benefited from a lot of players who were called up for military service, found themselves stationed in Northern Ireland, and then by extension were eligible to sign and play for Linfield.
speaker_1HOST
For the first time in its 70-year history, the Ballon d'Or ceremony left France.
speaker_1HOST
France Football took the gala to London to honour Stanley Matthews, the Englishman who won the very first edition back in 1956.
speaker_1HOST
They could not have scripted what happened next.
speaker_1HOST
The evening itself was chaos.
10 MINS LATER
speaker_1HOST
What was left was the simple truth voters had been dodging for years.
speaker_1HOST
This is one of the greatest goalscorers who has ever lived, now at the absolute peak of his powers, and there was no excuse left not to say so.
speaker_1HOST
So when the first Ballon d'Or ceremony ever held in England ended with an Englishman lifting the trophy, 70 years after Stanley Matthews won the first one, that wasn't a coincidence or a sympathy vote.
speaker_1HOST
It was the game correcting itself.
Neil HoughtonGUEST
of course there's the story about when he'd had a lace.
Neil HoughtonGUEST
Stanley Matthews used to...
Neil HoughtonGUEST
Hit the laces, put through the laces.
Neil HoughtonGUEST
Make sure he got the lace in the right position.
Ben WrightHOST
Very old.
Ben WrightHOST
I'm standing next to a statue of Sir Stanley Matthews, who was born here in Hanley, one of the towns that make up Stoke-on-Trent.
Ben WrightHOST
And in the fraught years between the referendum and the UK actually leaving the EU, I came here quite a few times to hear what people made of it all.
Ben WrightHOST
And having spent a couple of hours wandering around the town centre in a hazy autumnal sunshine, it seems that Brexit is nothing like the political football that it used to be.
Joe DevineHOST
Although,
Jon MackenziePANELIST
you know, didn't Stanley Matthews win a Ballon d'Or?
Joe DevineHOST
Did he play for Millwall? No, but he played for like Blackpool or something.
Joe DevineHOST
There might be someone like that who...
Joe DevineHOST
Did
Jon MackenziePANELIST
he win? I'm doubting my...
Jon MackenziePANELIST
Stanley Matthews won the first Ballon d'Or.
Joe DevineHOST
I'm pretty certain that he did.
Rick EdwardsHOST
What?
Jess ThirlbyGUEST
But the most important person I met was Ivor Powell, who was a former Welsh professional footballer, played for Kuper and Aston Villa, but most importantly, I met him on my first day of starting my netball programme at Bath, and he was Sir Stanley Matthews' best man.
Jess ThirlbyGUEST
And I spent the next ten years with not the oldest...
Jess ThirlbyGUEST
Working football coach who retired at 93 years old, giving me life lessons beyond life lessons.
Ethan RiggGUEST
Brooking, yeah.
Ethan RiggGUEST
Stanley Matthews.
Ethan RiggGUEST
Oh, Matthews, yeah.
Ethan RiggGUEST
There you go.
Matt HarrisonHOST
For a long time, for a long time.
Matt HarrisonHOST
long time massively long time um obviously there's the names there that have won it previously obviously stanley matthews winning the first very first one i believe in 1956.
PaulHOST
Yeah.
PaulHOST
You know what? You look at those four players, there's only one of them alive.
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