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27th March 1943: RAF corporal and football star Stanley Matthews takes his daughter and the dog for a cycle on a deserted football pitch. Original Publication: Picture Post - 1401 - The Best Footballer The War Has Produced - pub.1943 (Photo by Leonard McCombe/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

27th March 1943:  RAF corporal and football star Stanley Matthews takes his daughter and the dog for a cycle on a deserted football pitch. Original Publication: Picture Post - 1401 - The Best Footballer The War Has Produced - pub.1943  (Photo by Leonard McCombe/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)