Cliff Made It Big, but Pal Frank Was Denied His Career in Football ; Our Recent Feature On the Naming of Cliff Bastin Fields at His Old School Ladysmith in Heavitree, Exeter, has Revealed a Rather Sad Story of Another Footballer Who Could Have but Didn't Make It to the Big Time.

Express & Echo (Exeter, UK) › November 05, 2008

Linked as:

Summary

Our recent feature on the naming of Cliff Bastin Fields at his old school Ladysmith in Heavitree, Exeter, has revealed a rather sad story of another footballer who could have but didn't make it to the big time.

He is the young lad sitting to the right of Cliff in the old picture of the school team.

See the full content of this document

Extract

Cliff Made It Big, but Pal Frank Was Denied His Career in Football ; Our Recent Feature On the Naming of Cliff Bastin Fields at His Old School Ladysmith in Heavitree, Exeter, has Revealed a Rather Sad Story of Another Footballer Who Could Have but Didn't Make It to the Big Time.

The memories come from Matt Lazenby of Exeter, who recognised that boy as his wife's grandfather, William Francis...

See the full content of this document