"You're 32, do you think you can make it for another couple of years?"
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Autobiographers from the United KingdomCommanders of the Order of the British EmpireSoccer players from England
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Blackpool manager Joe Smith, in 1947.
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Stanley Matthews
Stanley Matthews, CBE (February 1 1915 – February 23 2000) was a football player. Often regarded as one of the greats of the English game, he was the first footballer to be knighted (and is, as of 2006, the only player to have been knighted while still playing), as well as the first European Footballer of the Year and the first Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year
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