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2 unusual facts about Alf Sherwood


Alf Sherwood

As a youngster, Sherwood was a youth international for Wales at both football and cricket, playing alongside Trevor Ford and Gilbert Parkhouse, before becoming one of the Bevin Boys, a scheme created by former Minister of Labour and National Service Ernest Bevin, in which young men aged between 18–25 were drafted to work as miners during World War II.

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After leaving Newport in 1961 he had a short-lived spell as player-manager of Barry Town before fully retiring from football and working for the National Coal Board as a security officer.



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