George Green was a celebrated cartoonist who worked for the Liverpool Echo from the 1930's until the 1960's. He was most well-known for his reporting of big matches in cartoon form, which were published every week in the Echo, and also for caricatures of famous (and not so famous) sporting stars of the day.
During the 1950's he created a comic strip featuring a rag-a-muffin group of Liverpool street-urchins who formed a football team, known as the "Back Entry Diddlers". It is highly unlikely that you could get away with such a title, these days!
The comic strip was published every Saturday in the Junior Section of the Liverpool Echo, and is fondly remembered by many a scouser of a certain age!
Whilst trawling through the, ever interesting, British Newspaper Archive, I came across this story, from September 1951, where the BEDs were playing the Prescot Pals, who obviously had a bit of a reputation as "hard lads"!
I think a compendium of some of George Green's work would make a wonderful tribute to a master of his art!
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