The Armistice Day Killing: The Death of Tommy Ball and the Life of the Man Who Shot Him

by Colin Brown

This is the dramatic story of the death of the only English professional footballer deemed by law to have been murdered. A key member of Aston Villa's 1923 all-star team, Tommy Ball rose from the obscurity of Durham pit village football to play a starring role in the world's most famous team and was considered a likely future England international. His killer, Somerset man George Stagg, was a former soldier and policeman who became his landlord and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1801501076
• ISBN13: 9781801501071
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Pitch Publishing
• Length: 272 Pages