BLIND MEN AT SOCCER
Forty blind Burnley men have been given free passes to attend Burnley Association Football Club games at Turf Moor, England. Although they cannot actually sec the games they can follow the flight of the ball and the fortnnes of tho game by listening to the comments of the spectators around them. Iho men aro as keen as the average football fan and arrangements havo been made for them to be accommodated near the players' entrance. All the men are members of the Burnley Blind Society, which on several occasions has promoted cricket matches between teams of blind men. They use a cano ball, which tinkles when played. An attempt was also made to play football in tho same , manner by attaching bells to the ball, but during .the game the bells were too often kicked on for the experiment to prove successful.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23486, 25 October 1939, Page 15
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146BLIND MEN AT SOCCER New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23486, 25 October 1939, Page 15
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