Cloth-capped, grey-skinned Barnsley coal miners tumbled eagerly out of their special train for the long ride through Bradford's grey streets to '"t Coop" (the football Cup Final). Bradford textile workers watched the football fans, shouted angrily: "Wheer's 't coal? Slacking again?" The miners replied: '"T coal's in Barnsley. Go and help thysen."
All over Britain, miners returning from the war were refusing to go back to the mines. Men already there were too old (average age: over 50) and too hungry for efficient production. They worked while solid rations lasted; on Thursdays...
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