Fred Spiksley: wing wizard, film star and POW escapee

Football is more than just a game. The best stories from the beautiful game that you may never have heard before, written by some of the world’s leading sports journalists, and spanning more than 100 years of sporting history from across the footballing planet. In this episode: Fred Spiksley dazzled as an outside-left, but found his far-reaching coaching ideas spurned in England after success abroad, having also dabbled in film and been embroiled in a wartime escape mission

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Fred Spiksley: wing wizard, film star and POW escapee is an episode from Forgotten Stories of Football by The Guardian.

This episode is 00:16:24 long.

This episode was published on Jun 17, 2020.

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