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Every Tuesday morning, host Jim Johnson sits down with footballers, business leaders and cultural figures for honest conversations about identity, trust, belonging and what the game really means.
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Collecting Pop Bottles for a Football | Martyn Potts | Football for Breakfast
Martyn Potts grew up in Blackpool in the 1950s. His dad was at the Matthews Cup Final in 1953. In 1959, aged nine, he and his mates on a cinder-surfaced cul-de-sac in Lancaster had no football. So they went round collecting empty pop bottles, claimed the deposits and pooled the money. Two days later they had enough for a ball. Billy James got to keep it overnight because he had his own bedroom and could guarantee its security from meddling family members.
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