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Farewell to Graham Cowdrey, cricket’s king of the dressing room

21 November 2020

9:00 AM

21 November 2020

9:00 AM

So the Good Lord really wants to fill out his team: how else to interpret the passing in recent months of three of the finest footballers of the past century — Jack Charlton, Nobby Stiles and Ray Clemence. All received thoroughly deserved eulogies. All had reached the highest realms of their sport and, though none made it to a very great age, they did at least achieve the biblical milestone of three score years and ten.

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