Thursday, 6 November 2014

Daily Mirror - Magic Feet (4)


1948-49

Magic Feet
Daily Mirror
22 cut-outs

Jim Donnelly has sent in the name of the missing player along with a photo showing four of the Magic Feet cut-outs in a scrapbook. That's another checklist completed.


1.  Charlie Wayman (Southampton)

2.  Len Shackleton (Sunderland)
3.  Tommy Walker (Chelsea)
4.  Stanley Matthews (Blackpool)
5.  Trevor Ford (Aston Villa)
6.  Jack Vernon (West Bromwich Albion)
7.  Charles Tully (Celtic)
8.  Gordon Hurst (Charlton Athletic)
9.  James Mason (Third Lanark)
10.  Jack Milburn (Newcastle United)
11.  Tom Finney (Preston North End)
12.  Billy Linacre (Manchester City)  -  19 February, 1949   -   date added 30-03-2025  -  thanks to Trevor Cotterell
13.  Peter Harris (Portsmouth)
14.  George Hardwick (Middlesbrough)
15.  Leslie Compton (Arsenal)
16.  Jim Taylor (Fulham)
17.  Harry Johnston (Blackpool)
18.  Joe Harvey (Newcastle United)
19.  Ian Black (Southampton)
20.  Roy Bentley (Chelsea)   -   amended 20-09-2024
21.  Eric Westwood (Manchester City)
22.  Micky Fenton (Middlesbrough)   -   added 23-01-2021  -  thanks to Neil Hawkins

4 comments:

  1. Small correction: the #20 (Roy Bentley) is Chelsea, not Newcastle

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  2. No. 12 Billy Linacre was published Saturday 19th February 1949 making the series date of 1949

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    1. Thank you Trevor. It was possibly a weekly series that ran through most of the 1948-49 season.
      Cheers,
      Alan

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