- Contributed by听
- Alfred Forrest
- People in story:听
- Sir Tom Finney (England), Munsey (Leicester City), Les Pendlebury (Shrewsbury Town)
- Location of story:听
- Austria
- Background to story:听
- Army
- Article ID:听
- A6130018
- Contributed on:听
- 13 October 2005
Alfred (Pete) Forrest 1944
Before the war I was a keen footballer and played amateur football and played for my works and also when I was a boy I played for Sheffield boys.
During the war to take our minds off the fighting and during our R & R we played football. One of these games I played in Rome's national football stadium.
Later on while I was serving in Austria. A game was arranged where our team captianed by Les Pendlebury played against Sir Tom Finney's team. Any body could come to watch the match and the addmission charge was an apple, orange, chocolate or any food items which was later distributed amongst the local children.
We lost the game 4-3. Sir Tom scored the fourth goal to win the match. If memory serves me right, I scored the hat-trick but was still not enough to beat the skills of Sir Tom snd his team of professional players both past and present.
I will alway remember this as one of the highlights of my experience in the war as I have both good and bad memories, these football matches kept us all sane.
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