He is the only player to have been knighted while still playing football. And Britain’s first global football superstar, Sir Stanley Matthews, is now being remembered by his daughter, who is writing a book about her famous dad as a political pioneer.

Jean Gough Matthews, now 85, wants to highlight her father’s achievements off the pitch as a social campaigner, using the sport he loved to bring people together.

Regarded as one of the greatest players of the English game, he was the first…