Stanley Matthews he helped Blackpool to win the cup with a formidable personal performance in the "Matthews Final" of 1953. Between 1934 and 1957 he won 54 caps for England, playing in the FIFA World Cup in 1950 and 1954, and winning nine British Home Championship titles. Following an unsuccessful stint as Port Vale's general manager between 1965 and 1968, he travelled around the world, coaching enthusiastic amateurs. The most notable of his coaching experiences came in 1975 in South Africa, where in spite of the harsh apartheid laws of the time he established an all-black team in Soweto known as "Stan's
Helen Matthews Easter Road Stadium. The match was billed as a Scotland v England international, and Matthews played as a goalkeeper. After women's football was banned in Scotland, Matthews and Nettie Honeyball formed The Lady Footballer team in England. Matthews left The Lady Footballer in 1896, and in the same year, she took Mrs Graham's XI to play against Scottish men's teams. In the first match of the tour against Irvine, Matthews sustained a black eye, but continued playing. Matthews only revealed her true identity in 1900. Helen Matthews Helen Graham Matthews, also known by her pseudonym Mrs Graham (born 1857/8), was