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SIR BOBBY CHARLTON BACKS CAMPAIGN

(...and how could anyone argue with him?)

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SAVE OUR
FOOTBALL
MUSEUM
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SUPPORTER: Sir Bobby Charlton, pictured launching free entry to the National Football Museum at Deepdale
Stadium, today said he thought it should stay where it is on its ‘superb site’ parent and child...
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It would cost millions of pounds MORE to move the Football
Museum to Manchester than it would to leave it in our city

KEEP IT IN
DEEPDALE!
SIR Bobby Charlton – Eng-
land’s most famous foot-
baller – today kicked off an
Evening Post campaign to
by Tony Dewhurst
tony.dewhurst@lep.co.uk

will cost millions of pounds MORE

keep the National Football
Museum in Preston.
The England World Cup hero
and former Deepdale boss is un-
happy that Preston could lose the
museum to his adopted city of
Manchester.
Today it has been revealed that it
to move the museum to Manchester
than it will to keep it in Preston.
The Lancashire Evening Post, in
partnership with Downtown Preston
in Business, will fight this outrageous
plan every inch of the way.
And the museum boss Kevin
Moore today said the move was “not
a done deal at all.” Sir Bobby, who is
the museum’s president, told the
Evening Post: “I think Preston has
made a wonderful home for the mu-
seum and I’d like it to stay at Deep-
dale.
“I have always thought that Pre-
ston was a superb site, with the his-
cause it really feels like the museum is
at the heart of football there.”
The Manchester United legend,
who won 106 caps for England,
added: “The museum is a marvellous,
well-run organisation and many thou-
tory and heritage of Preston, Sir Tom sands of football fans have enjoyed
Finney, one of the world’s greatest visiting it.
players, and the fact that they were “I’m very honoured to be the mu-
seum’s president and every time I
one of the founder members of the
Football League. visit there I’m made to feel very wel-
come, as are the visitors.
“There is so much going for it at
Deepdale. “It has a great atmosphere
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there and people have embraced it.
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“I would be sad if it left Preston be-

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