ON THE edge of an unprepossessing part of deepest Shropshire, near to the district of Meole Brace, past Percy Thrower’s World of Gardening and round the corner from the Aldi supermarket, you finally reach the Montgomery Water Stadium, home to Shrewsbury Town Football Club.
The stadium is only a matter of miles from Ironbridge Gorge and the 1779 monument to the industry around that site which helped forge the Industrial Revolution.
Yet it was an emerging sporting revolution that drew you to Shrewsbury’s 2-1 defeat by visitors Portsmouth on Saturday.
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