Football Starts In Cricket Weather (1949)

Full title reads: “Football Starts In Cricket Weather“. Maine Road, Manchester, Lancashire. Football - Manchester City VS Aston Villa - 3-3. MV Pan from queue to another outside Maine Road ground. SV Admission sign pan down to people entering ground. SV People through turnstiles. MV Autograph hunters around Westwood Manchester captain. SV Frank Swift surrounded by autograph hunters. MV Man dressed in shorts reading programme in queue. CU Head and shoulders of man pan down to shorts. CU Woman wearing sunglasses. Zoom in. MV City players in dressing room. CU Frank Swift being massaged pan to Manchester players dressing. LV packed ground. SV Manchester City kick off, Ball loose to Con Martin (Villa centre half) who kicks up-field. MV Ball to Trevor Ford (Villa) who dribbles and back-passes to Welsh international Ivor Powell, who passes forward to crowd of players. SV Ford (Villa) tries to get ball from Swift. but Swift tosses him over his back. CU Fan in flat cap. LV Villa forward back-passes to Ivor P
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