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100 Years of Football
Wed 29 Sep, 6.30pm
A fascinating curtain raiser about football then and now. Come and share your stories and learn about what football was like in 'the gool old days' with Barrie Rutter and cast members.
The Observer Click here to read the full story of why the play was surrounded by controversy when it was first staged 100 years ago!
Northern Broadsides presents
by Harold Brighouse
With Wendi Peters best known for her role as Cilla Battersby-Brown in Coronation Street.
Lancashire. 1913. Match Day!
Blackton Rovers is in need of money. Owner, Austin Whitworth, sells his star centre forward – local football hero Jack Metherell – to a rival club on the eve of a crucial match.
Will honest Jack do Austin’s bidding when asked to throw the match? Or will he put his professional honour above loyalty to his old club?
Austin’s daughter Elsie, and Jack, are in love – or so they think. She wants to wed a hero. He wants to improve his mind. She wants to talk sport. He wants to talk books.
Is this tryst between the classes doomed from the start? Will Elsie’s modern ways win over Jack’s domineering mam? Or will Jack remain firmly tied to his mam’s apron strings?
From the halcyon days of professional football where players were working class heroes and people were supposed to ‘know their place’ comes a spirited comedy that combines broad northern humour with the passion, pride, prejudice and principles of two football families.
