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@ParrAmos @rorybremner @bbctms @ZaltzCricket I remember Richie Benaud commenting when it became clear that the game would end with no-one getting 50. I don't think it was a bad pitch? Botham's 5-1 spell was extraordinary.

[The Extreme Football Enthusiast @ExtremeFootbal4]

The Greatest Goal Never Scored
by Hans-Günter Bruns (1983)
FC Bayern vs. Borussia

[British football. Soccer cards 1972 - 1982 @Fotball79]

@80s90sfootball

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

On the night of June 5, 1944, Eisenhower stood on a tarmac in England and watched 13,000 paratroopers board their planes.

He already knew what Air Marshal Leigh-Mallory had told him in private: up to half of them might not survive the night. 6,500 men. Dead before a single soldier touched the beach. Eisenhower had approved the mission anyway, called the decision "soul-wracking," and said nothing to the men.

Instead he drove out and visited them.

He chatted. Laughed. Asked where they were from. Shook hands. Cracked jokes. Not one of them knew their general had just signed what might be their death warrant.

When the last plane disappeared into the dark sky, his driver Kay Summersby looked over at him.

There were tears running down his face.

He drove back to Telegraph Cottage in silence. Then he sat down, picked up a pencil, and wrote a note he prayed no one would ever read.

"Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based upon the best information available. The troops, the air and the Navy did all that bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone."

Look at what he edited.

He had first written "This particular operation." He crossed it out and replaced it with "My decision to attack." Then he pressed the pencil down hard and drew a long, firm line under the words "mine alone."

He misdated it July 5 instead of June 5.

He was so consumed with dread he had forgotten what month it was.

He folded the note and put it in his wallet. He carried it there as 156,000 men stormed the beaches of Normandy. When word came back that the beachhead had held, he took it out, crumpled it, and threw it in the trash.

An aide quietly pulled it out and saved it.

That note is now behind glass at the Eisenhower Presidential Library in Abilene, Kansas. You can still see where the pencil pressed hardest.

Right under the words "mine alone."

82 years ago tonight.

[British football. Soccer cards 1972 - 1982 @Fotball79]

Kevin Keegan ♥️

[Retro Football Network @retrofootballnw]

A classic 4-4 draw is what we want to see.

From 1982 and the old 1st Division.

@LutonTown were newly promoted and visited @stokecity

So much going on at the Victoria Ground that day.

Don't miss it!

#SCFC #LTFC

[Stoke City Heritage @scheritage1863]

5 May 1979. Alan Durban celebrates promotion to the First Division following the Potters' 1-0 win at Notts County

📸 the Sentinel

[Stoke City Heritage @scheritage1863]

August 2015. Xherdan Shaqiri signed for #StokeCity for a club record £12m from Inter Milan

📸 Getty Images

[Football Tweet ⚽ @Footballtweet]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 And people wonder why in England there's a footballing cultural focus on wide play, using wingers, crossing balls into the box.

[Stoke City FC @stokecity]

More to come ⏳

[Vineet Chawla @vineetrajouri]

When IAN BOTHAM showed the World....he's aggression with the
Ball.....

His Spell of Five Wkts for a solitary Run as England won this
Test Match....A great performance by BEEFY.....

[FootballAwaydays @Awaydays23]

ON THIS DAY 1990: Stoke City relegation party at Brighton & Hove Albion #STOKECITY #SCFC

[A Funny Old Game @sid_lambert]

It’s St George’s Day, so here’s Stuart Pearce exorcising the ghosts of Turin at Euro 96.

What a moment.

[The League Magazine @Theleaguemag]

World Cup final 1966
Gordon Banks at the final whistle

[Stoke City Heritage @scheritage1863]

July 2014. #StokeCity announce the signing of Bojan from @FCBarcelona

He went on to score 16 goals in 85 appearances for the club

📸 Stoke City

[TV Football 1968-92 @1968Tv]

On This Day 1975
The greatest playing surface in the history of football!
Jimmy Greenhoff with a double, in Stoke City’s 2-1 victory over Derby County at The Baseball Ground.
Kevin Hector with Derby’s goal.
With the great voice of ATV’s Hugh Johns commentating.
#DCFC #StokeCity #StarSoccer

[Peter Crouch @petercrouch]

Whoever made this is a legend.

I’ve just told my kids
Have a look a dad on the weekend 😂

[FC Bayern München @FCBayern]

FC Bayern will never forget.

#FlowersOfManchester

[Football Memories @footballmemorys]

BBC Commentators Bryon Butler and Peter Jones

#BBCFootball #Commentators #Radio

[TV Football 1968-92 @1968Tv]

A few goals from a few entertainers!
We don’t have these sort of players in today’s game.