![Antonio Gallego reads a newspaper with football news from March 1947.](https://imagenes.elpais.com/resizer/v2/M3EJESUJQDUDDRYEY3JZRFNKRE.jpg?auth=dea60f648881c05a3e866c7e74496de88f5e66d788676068ecdb2b7b5d93ef8a&width=414&height=233&smart=true)
How Gernika's bombs spawned the first Spanish footballers to play in England
Basque refugee children looked to sport as a way to settle into their new lives
Basque refugee children looked to sport as a way to settle into their new lives
UK government was persuaded by civil society to offer shelter to those fleeing the fascist airstrikes