Every Derby County supporter knows that Steve Bloomer was football’s first super star. He scored a record number of goals for England, endorsed football kit including “the boot that never fails to score”, and when the Queen Mary set out on her maiden voyage his image was part of a giant mural in one of the public rooms portraying famous Britons. His career was spent mostly with the Rams – there was a controversial transfer to Middlesbrough in 1906 but four years later returned to a hero’s welcome, brass band and all, at the Baseball Ground.īloomer was renowned for many things – he was also a good cricketer and baseball player – but he was best known for his impeccable sense of timing. When that let him down, it did so in spectacular fashion: on the eve of the First World War he went off to coach in Germany.
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