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A tale by Bert Trautmann is well known to football history buffs.
The German goalkeeper gained cult status in the 1956 FA Cup final after playing despite a fractured neck.
But the story of the former guardian of the city of St Helens has many other layers. Trautmann, who died in 2013, served in the German army during the Second World War, before ending up in a POW camp in England.
The modern audience will learn all this and more now it is the subject of a movie called The Guardian.
Bert Trautmann, Germany-born goalkeeper and native of Germany, dives into the air to try and save the shot of Wolves player Ronald Flowers. The shot went wide.This week on Out of the ballJohn Henshaw, the actor who represents Trautmann's club secretary and his stepfather, Jack Friar, is joining us.
"He appears as a manager," said Henshaw about the portrait of his character in The Guardian.
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"But he was actually the secretary." He had a bit of candor with the club and his coach called George Friar, but Jack reunited with local businessmen to build a pitch. and start Saint Helens immediately with Bert.
"They became good friends and he invited him around and of course he got married [Friar’s] daughter and finally became her father-in-law ".
On Trautmann and the film, he added: "There is so much more than that in football".
This is not the first movie on football that Henshaw has been involved with. He also appeared in When will come Saturday and In search of Eric.
"I could really have an AF pension," Henshaw joked.
You can watch the full interview on YouTube above.
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