"After
reading this book, I am proud to say that I was born in the same
town as Wilfred, a man who was skillful enough to have a successful
career in professional football, but also knew where his duty lay
when called upon."
Graham Taylor OBE, former England National Football
Team Manager
Swifter than the
Arrow:
Wilfred Bartrop, football and war
by Peter Holland
Wilfred
Bartrop was a gifted professional footballer who played in the years
immediately before the First World War. Highly acclaimed for his
speed on the right wing, Bartrop played for Worksop Town, Barnsley
and Liverpool, and was an ever-present member of the celebrated
‘Battling Barnsley’ teams of 1910 and 1912. Bartrop was a star
signing for Liverpool in 1914, but arrived at the worst possible
time – just as Europe was plunged into the horrors of war. After
the professional leagues were disbanded, Gunner Bartrop played his
part in the ‘greater game’, manning artillery guns on the front
line in France and Belgium.
Swifter than the Arrow recounts Wilfred
Bartrop’s life, from his background in Victorian Worksop, through
success and disappointment on the football field, and onto the
bloody battlefields of Flanders. It is an extraordinary true story
of triumph, tragedy, scandal, sport and war.
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