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Tom Finney
Died age 95. Just been listening to the eulogies on 5live...never dived, ultimate loyalty to the club he was born a few streets away from. A guy who had a plumbing business who may have fixed a toilet in the morning before giving 90 honest minutes at 3pm, with boots that weighed a ton and a ball so hard that only a hero or a nutcase put his head to.
Never saw him play, listened to my dad banging on about him, Armfield and Matthews many a time. Most of the premier league prima donnas could learn a lot from someone who could take a tackle and stay on his feet and caught the bus home with his boots around his neck.
I just wonder how many people will know the name Suarez, Rooney, Nasri, Dzeko or Ozil in 2084
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