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- ↑ Brake, Laurel; Denmoor, Marysa, eds. (2009). Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism: In Great Britain and Ireland. Academia. p. 595. ISBN 978-0712350396 . Retrieved 6 April 2021.
- ↑ "To our readers" . The Sportsman. No. 17, 237. 22 November 1924. p. 7 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ Curry, Graham (2020). The Making of Association Football: Two Decades Which Created the Modern Game. pp. 105–106. ISBN 978-1527560772.
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