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[2] W. Bently Capper, ed., Licensed houses and their management (3 vols., London, 1923), II, pp. 243–54.
[3] Richard Holt, Sport and the British (Oxford, 1989), pp. 32–5, 260–7.
[4] Jack Williams, ‘Cricket', in Tony Mason, ed., Sport in Britain: a social history (Cambridge, 1989), p. 137.
[5] Matthew Taylor, "'Proud Preston' A history of the Football League, 1900–1939" (PhD. thesis, De Montfort, 1997), ch. 2, passim.
[6] Mike Cronin, ‘Arthur Elvin and the dogs of Wembley', The Sports Historian, 22 (2) (2001), pp. 100–14.

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