Late Tackle

THE STEVES OF ENGLAND

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The Late Tackle Magazine Team
2 June 2022

STEVE TOLMIE GETS HIS THINKING CAP ON TO COME UP WITH A TEAM THAT SHARE HIS FIRST NAME...

FOR almost 70 years after April 6, 1907, English football endured a wilderness period that seems to have gone unremarked.
Fourteen Prime Ministers came and went (overseen by five monarchs), and a World Cup was won, but from that fateful day in 1907 until March 12, 1975, the English football team somehow functioned without a Steve in their ranks.
The trailblazing Steve was Derby’s Steve Bloomer whose England career is one of the finest of pre-modern times.Bloomer’s 23 caps (earned b...

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