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Blades vs Eintracht Frankfurt: three times in eight months

John Slingsby recalls a 'friendly' triple header against Die Adler

Mar 10, 2023
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Words: John Slingsby

The 1960s. Peace and love, Woodstock and Beatlemania, Hodgkinson and Shaw. A time when many could remember a conflict that changed the world and, almost unbelievably, could look forward to the possibility of a new, more devastating nuclear war. Berlin was divided up. The USA and the USSR just negotiated the Cuban Missile Crisis, but …

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