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...Matthew Warchus’s “Old Vic: In Camera” staging of this collage of lonely voices is a “scratch performance”, pulled together under the peculiar circumstances of semi-lockdown and performed live onstage but...
...matthew.engel@ft.com...
...Brian Clough, then Nottingham Forest manager, told him: “I wanna shake your hand, Mr Dyke, because you’re the first person that’s given football what it’s due: 12m quid.”...
...There cannot be an elm in honour of Matthew Arnold’s poem of grief for the dead poet Clough because the elm, which existed in my youth, died of Dutch Elm disease in the 1970s....
...Clough certainly saw it that way....
...late 1950s, I hit upon the unoriginal idea of writing to footballers to get their signatures, there were three obvious candidates: Nat Lofthouse, the old “Lion of Vienna”, and the ancient maestro Stanley Matthews...
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