This week’s roundup also features electric skateboard pole-vaulting, a tribute to speedway great Ivan Mauger and county cricket from 1949
1) To the marbles world championship! Hot action from this year’s event at Tinsley Green in Sussex, plus Trans World Sport’s trip there in 2017 and Pathé’s coverage of the 1938 edition (plus a US event in the very same year). Then there’s this rather remarkable short BBC Nationwide report from 1973 on Len Smith, “the Muhammad Ali of marbles”.
2) It is FA Cup semi-final weekend! Here is some thunderous Gazza, proper underdogs, Giggs dribbling and Palace against Liverpool.
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