Stanley Matthews: From His Father’s Threat to the First Ballon d’Or

Lebanon 24: “I’ll run away from home when I turn eighteen to become a footballer and play in the first division.” This is what young Stanley Matthews would repeat to his father, Jack, a barber in the Hanley neighborhood of the English city of Stoke and a former featherweight boxer, who raised his children to love sports, but could not accept that he grow up…