Historian Dr Gary James, the author 20 books about football, including the soon-to-be published 'The Emergence of Football Cultures in Manchester 1840-1919', talks about the wonderfully off-beat 1994 novel 'Gladys Protheroe... Football Genius!' by Simon Cheetham.
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