Sunday, October 6, 2024

Hockey’s own Valerie Robinson could have been a Busby Babe

The Hockey Museum’s Mike Haymonds looks at the career of one of England’s finest ever hockey players

If Stanley Shoveller, the only Englishman to win two Olympic gold medals, is regarded as the greatest English male hockey player there is little doubt that Valerie Robinson OBE (nee Walsh) deserves the accolade of the finest English female performer.

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