• At only 20, Stanley Matthews was quickly becoming the biggest star in English football.
  • Perhaps, Sir Stanley Matthews was the first example of the fact that silverware doesn't necessarily define a footballer, or the career he has had.
  • 1939: Stanley Matthews plays in the Berlin Olympic Stadium where England are forced to give the Nazi Salute at the beginning of the game.
  • In total, Stanley Matthews made 54 official England appearances scoring 11 goals (as well as 29 unofficial wartime appearances with 2 goals).
  • The Stanley Matthews Cross, Stoke Minster - geograph.org.uk - 4935527.jpg 480 × 640; 28 KB.
  • 1954 FIFA Dünya Kupası'nda da 2 maçta oynyan Matthews, 54 kez giydiği milli formaya 1957 yılında veda etti.
  • ^ Tony Mason, ‘Matthews, Sir Stanley (1915-2000)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004.
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  • The Stoke City manager Tom Mather persuaded Matthews' father to allow Stanley to join his club's staff as an office boy on his 15th birthday for pay of £1 a week.