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CITY PLAYMAKER

IN THE SPOTLIGHT
AS A NEW FILM ABOUT BERT TRAUTMANN. THE KEEPER. DOES THE ROUNDS. MIKE FENTON RELATES HOW AN OLD COLLEGE MATE CHANNELLED HIS FAN-WORSHIP OF THE FORMER GERMAN!PRISONER OF WAR AND LOVE FOR MAN CITY ONTO THE STAGE…

Agony: Manchester City keeper Bert Trautmann leaves the fi eld at the end of the 1956 FA Cup fi nal and, insets, Mike Fenton heads clear as keeper Bill Cronshaw watches and Bill with his idol Bert

Football and the stage have never been ready bedfellows. Achieving realism and attempting to reproduce match action within the confines of the theatre present man...

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