How the white football was dismissed as an unwanted fad

Forgotten Stories of Football by The Guardian

Aug 31, 202000:18:51Sports & Recreation

The white ball was widely disliked during trials in 1927 and one manufacturer declared it ‘practically impossible to make’. It would take another 24 years for the Football League to give it the go-ahead

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