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- ↑ "Wales player database 1872 to 2013". eu-football.info. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
- ↑ "Thomas Boden". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
- ↑ "WELSH CUP FINAL 1878/79 - 29 March 1879 at the Cricket Field, Oswestry". Welsh Football Data Archive.
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