Former Manchester City midfielder Stan Horne could become the first black footballer to be awarded a championship medal – 52 years after helping the Blues win the title.
City are to approach the Football League asking for recognition for four members of Joe Mercer’s squad who did not play enough games to be granted one of the game’s most coveted prizes when they won the old First Division in 1968.
Horne played five times as Mercer’s men snatched the title from rivals United on the final day of the season. But that wasn’t enough to automatically earn him a medal.
Team-mates Harry Dowd, Paul Hince, and Bobby Kennedy also missed out. So City are now trying to redress the situation after being made aware that the Football League had fallen into
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