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1972: In PAISLEY Sunday SOCCER is SINFUL | Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive
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5:39Now PlayingThe reintroduction of an old byelaw means that footballers in Paisley are forbidden to play on the lush, level playing fields of St James Park on Sundays. Police have raided unauthorised Sunday games and taken the names of any players foolhardy enough to commit football. Diehard footballers who wish to play on a Sunday must brave the few pitches that the Paisley Corporation have set aside for Sunday matches - pitches scattered with broken bottles, cinder heaps and swamped with water hazards.
Originally broadcast 9 March, 1972.
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