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Spencer Vignes

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Award-winning author & freelance in the words trade. Football, tennis, music, biographer of goalkeeping pioneer Leigh Roose, writer of @trainsongsbook

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Found this week in a garage in Shrewsbury - a postcard sent in 1909 to the 4-year-old nephew of the great Sunderland goalkeeper Leigh Roose, accompanied by the football used in Sunderland's 3-1 win over Newcastle on 10 Apr 1909. Alas there's no sign of the ball. But, just, wow!

Found this week in a garage in Shrewsbury - a postcard sent in 1909 to the 4-year-old nephew of the great Sunderland goalkeeper Leigh Roose, accompanied by the football used in Sunderland's 3-1 win over Newcastle on 10 Apr 1909.

Alas there's no sign of the ball.

But, just, wow!