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This is the story of how an unsigned contract that lay hidden in a bungalow for more than 50 years could have changed the course of English football.

Peter Sheehy, a history teacher at the Horace Mann School, sat in his bedroom, trolling the Internet. It was the fall of 2006, shortly after lunch on a Saturday afternoon. The school year had just ...