An outstanding centre-half, the budding Aston Villa player, Tommy Ball became the first and only active English professional footballer to be murdered. In this episode, we discuss how a quarrel over chickens in the late evening of November 11, 1923, became deadly.
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I described it as arguably the greatest tragedy in the club’s history
Rob Bishop