by Jon Spurling @https://twitter.com/@JonSpurling1 Published 4 min ago We are part of The Trust Project What is it? 1. George Eastham (Newcastle) By 1959, Newcastle’s promising Under-23 England international had had enough of life at St. James’ Park and dared to ask the club for a transfer. In the era of the ‘slavery contract’ and the minimum wage, this was a daring request by Eastham. Over the next two years, with Arsenal keen to whisk Eastham to north London, the forward was kept under virtual house arrest by his club, refusing to budge on his request, and living in self-imposed exile in the capital. To fill the time and earn a living (because Newcastle refused to pay his...
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