Editing Stanley Matthews (section)

==Autobiography==
Matthews' autobiography, ''The Way It Was'', was released by Headline in 2000. The book is dedicated to his wife Mila, who died the year before its publication.<ref name="Intro"/> Matthews, then 84, collaborated with Les Scott, his friend of 10 years, in the writing of the book over an 18-month period on an almost daily basis. "Stan, as he had been all his life, was an early riser", wrote Scott in the [[epilogue]]. "Our collaborations were over by eleven in the morning and, without fail, took place in his [[den (room)|den]]. He loved working on his book and, after I had left him, he would give the morning's session more applied thought — more often than not ringing me at home to provide additional thoughts or anecdotes."<ref>{{harvnb|Matthews|2000|p=592}}</ref>

Matthews also wrote an earlier autobiography entitled ''Feet First''. This was published by Ewen And Dale in 1948.