How the white football was dismissed as an unwanted fad

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: 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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How the white football was dismissed as an unwanted fad is an episode from Forgotten Stories of Football by The Guardian.

This episode is 00:18:44 long.

This episode was published on Jul 22, 2020.

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