On 2020-11-13 04:02, jvazquez wrote:
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/54839305
Dynamo Moscow's 1945 tour of Britain: Was it really 'war minus the shooting?' By Chris Howells
BBC Wales Sport
It was a Tuesday afternoon in November 1945 and the streets of Fulham were teeming. Tens of thousands of people were about to witness something most hadn't been able to since 1939, while for some it would be a lifetime first. They were on their way to attend a football match where a British team faced foreign opposition.
Local residents were hiring out their front gardens for bicycle storage, on street corners people were selling toffee apples, oranges and match programmes, while touts were getting -u4 for tickets that originally cost 10 shillings - eight times the face value.
(...)
My dad used to talk about those games. I presume he followed them on
the radio, since I doubt he could have got (or afforded) tickets to the
game at Ibrox. He was most amused by the accounts of the bewilderment
of the English teams by Dynamo making substitutions (unheard of at that
time in Britain). One captain (Arsenal ?) was alleged to have complained
to the referee "Ref, I suggest you count the opposition"
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