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Sir Tom blasts moves to uproot the National Football Museum and warns:
‘MYMUM’S

‘I WANT MY Save
Museum
ur
EVILAND
TWISTED’
Son

MEDALS BACK’
speaks
out over
mother’s
£50,000
benefits
con:
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Items on loan from Sir Tom Finney
and currently on display at the
National Football Museum are:

Black Preston North End Shorts

Two League Medals v Scottish League
March 1949 and Irish League March
1952
His OBE from 1961
His CBE from 1992
His Knighthood and Investiture
Programme from 1998
Tom Finney endorsed 1950 football
boots
Sir Tom’s This is Your Life red book
Freedom of Preston Silver Box and
Scroll
Photograph of Montgomery of Alamein,
autographed with message
Scotland v England programme signed
on the front by Montgomery (the match
he saw Sir Tom play and score in)
1960 Testimonial match programme
1957 Football Writers Award
Blue Identity Card for 1954 World Cup

Other items are also displayed

on a rotational basis

PRESTON North End leg- by Matthew Squires He also owns former Arsenal and the world. There seems no logical rea-
North End star Alex James’s memo- son why thousands and thousands of
end Sir Tom Finney will take [Link]@[Link]
rabilia, which is also at the museum. football treasures should be trans-
back ALL his personal None of it will make the trip to ferred at enormous cost to a sterile
memorabilia from the Na- But he said he has also made it clear building in Manchester when this
to museum chiefs he will not allow his Manchester if the museum is uproot-
money could be used support the Na-
tional Football Museum if it own trove of memorabilia to move ed, he has pledged.
tional Football Museum.
moves to Manchester. away from Sir Tom Finney Way. In a letter to Preston Mayor Coun “I have already informed the people
Proud Prestonian Sir Tom, who Keith Sedgewick, he said: “Preston concerned that my personal memo-
Furious Sir Tom has penned a made 472 appearances for the Lily- North End are a founding member of
letter to the Mayor of Preston rabilia currently on display in the mu-
whites, has loaned the museum his the Football League and Deepdale seum will not be allowed to leave Pre-
backing the Evening Post’s cam- medals, FA Cup Final shirt and his has every right to be home to the arte- ston.”
paign to keep the museum at Footballer of the Year trophy, as well facts and memorabilia that record the
Deepdale. as his CBE and knighthood medals. history of the most popular sport in ● Turn to Page 5 and sign our petition

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