The subject of substitutions, substitutes and benches has given me an excuse to post the pictures below of a bench I came across in Los Gigantes, Tenerife a few years ago (2006). It is in memory of Sir Stanley Matthews.
The bench has now moved from it's original position shown here but my Uncle recently visited the resort and rediscovered it, so it still exists it's just in a different place!
There's a tiny bit of irony involved in having a bench named in honour of one of the greatest English footballers of all time because of course when he played there was no such thing as a substitute's bench in football! However it's a nice reminder of the man who had close links with the area as you can see from the engraved plaque.
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