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FROM NAZI TO HERO

COLIN PERRY details the amazing transformation of Bert Trautmann from hate figure to idol at Manchester City

Leaving Wembley holding his neck

Trautmann receives attention

MOST English football fans best know Bert Trautmann as the German goalkeeper who won the FA Cup with Manchester City in 1956 after playing the last 17 minutes of the final with a broken neck.
Trautmann played 545 times for City between 1949 and 1964, and ended his Maine Road career with a testimonial attended by more than 47,000 fans.
But the German goalkeeper had been nowhere near as popular when he first signed ...

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