footballer Fergus Suter has been restored in time for the 135th anniversary of his historic hat-trick of FA Cup final triumph.Blackburn Rovers football club teamed up with football fan Jacqueline McAleese, who lives in Blackburn Old Cemetery and was inspired by Netflix documentary The English Game which told of Fergus Suter's story.
The documentary brought his remarkable story into the spotlight and Jacqueline contacted the club to try and restore his gravestone which had toppled over and was badly decayed.Fergus' existing headstone has been re-erected and a new memorial stone, with the fitting inscription ‘A pioneer and influential player at the start of our story’, introduced.Jacqueline who is married to a Scot and has lived within the.
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