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Rumours of Signing-on Troubles

... possibly behove will ever come to pass. There has been a good deal of talk and writing about white slavery in football: hut this would be real white slavery. a thing hitherto unknown, despite the constant writings in quarters where professional football ...

Published: Tuesday 10 May 1904
Newspaper: Athletic Chat
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 362 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

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... and assimilation easy, take to Coleman's Nerve Pills. Every pill is worth a ransom, for its effects your ransom from the slavery of nervekilling overwork and brain-fag. your of people who started with a free sample are now taking them regularly, and report ...

Published: Tuesday 18 December 1906
Newspaper: Athletic Chat
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 248 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

PLAYERS UNION SECRETARY. And Football Agents

... has not men it can possibly believe what it is like; it is a disgrace to football, and takes one ba..k to the old days of slavery, for hero one sees nothing more nor than an au,tion, where men are bought and sold like so many slaves. The Dart played by ...

Published: Wednesday 13 May 1908
Newspaper: Athletic Chat
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 265 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

IMPORTANT TO CLUBS AND PLAYERS

... that the conditions under which they are employed vary very much from anything describable even in the most remote sense as slavery, and are, as a matter of fact, a veritable charter of rights which may well make those engaged under other arrangements trulY ...

Published: Tuesday 29 March 1904
Newspaper: Athletic Chat
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 308 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

• BRENI'FORD. DISTURBED ABOUT MUCK THAT RU BUN IN POINT

... ii. rife, the publication of this very ordinary intelligence has been seised upon as a text for a sermon on the evils of ''slavery in leathet-chaeing. So far am the Brentfoill club is concerned, the proceedino wete square and shove board. The two playeis ...

Published: Wednesday 17 March 1909
Newspaper: Athletic Chat
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 333 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

IP°45-641 S AS ' the path oueaces

... of Wednesday last is worth reading, and it is written by a man who has seen much If the practical side of football. White slavery., has, I admit, a naJty sound about it, but the sting is taken out when those conversant with the matter know perfectly well ...

Published: Wednesday 03 February 1909
Newspaper: Athletic Chat
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 394 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

PASSING EVENTS

... of a General Eiection thick around us when the Competition Proper commence*, bet even Tariff Reform, Home Rule, Chinese Slavery, Reduction of the Navy, and the handred and cene-eilisr- thin. are being paraded just now so very prominently will have to ...

Published: Tuesday 09 January 1906
Newspaper: Athletic Chat
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1087 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1908

... defence of the poor football professional—slave, he prefers to describe him. So far as I can see, there is precious little slavery in connection with the professional footballer; and, despite all the restrictions which his ...

Published: Wednesday 23 September 1908
Newspaper: Athletic Chat
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 509 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

1901

... for moment the hitch arose. Liverpool's International l e ft. winger, who literally was bound dowei by the League', white slavery 0) ts again sign for the Anikeldera, had, i t i s stated, iLancheater City in his eye when volunteering the information he ...

Published: Monday 02 September 1901
Newspaper: Athletic Chat
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 492 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

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... football enthusiast he comes across and asking what this purchasing of football talent means. At one time we heard a lot about slavery in league football; in fact, some of our most talented football writers got so heated over the subject that they made. it ...

Published: Tuesday 20 March 1906
Newspaper: Athletic Chat
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1297 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

EDITORIAL COMMENTS

... him as a slave, for in reality he la a well-dressed, amiable, and well-behaved young fellow, with no trace of the chain of slavery concealed about his perion. He seems quite content with his stirtoundings, although, like ordinary men, he - Would not object ...

Published: Wednesday 30 September 1908
Newspaper: Athletic Chat
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 591 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

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... good many people are often making attempts to be funny at the buying and selling of football players, and writing of white slavery and its awful bearings on sport, but I fancy that if they happened to be enthusiasts of Woolwich Arsenal they would be inclined ...

Published: Tuesday 29 October 1901
Newspaper: Athletic Chat
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 690 | Page: 2 | Tags: none