RIP Sir Tom....another of the great heros of my youth has passed on. Not too many left now. What a brilliant player and a wonderful humble man. Not many have spent their entire playing career with one club. A true legend of British football.
RIP Sir Tom a great player and true gentleman and very modest, some of today's players could learn a lot from his attitude to football and life.
Sad day, I am old enough to have seen him play towards the end of his career, a true gentleman and gifted footballer, one of England's greatest RIP.
Our gym here at Uni is the Sir Tom Finney Sports Centre, they're now talking about putting a statue for him on the campus. Not sure why they don't put it at Deepdale. RIP
Yeah, I remembered after I posted that. It's covered in flowers today, apparently expecting a large crowd at the game today in memory of hom
A hero and gentleman, wonder if we'll ever have a player of such stature that he'll deserve a statue and also a stand named after him?
Probably the best obit in the papers. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...er-out-of-same-mould-as-Cruyff-and-Messi.html What a forward line: Finney, Raich, Lawton, Wilf Mannion, Sir Stan. Would have torn any defence in history any time a new one. FACT.
Was thinking about this myself and wondered where Nat Lofthouse fitted into the scheme of things or maybe I'm getting the era's mixed up. Duncan Edwards came later on but I thought Nat was around the same time as Tom. R.I.P. to a footballer of the old school of pride and honour, puts the diving prima donnas of today to shame.
3 of them, including Sir Tom played in the 1-0 defet by the USA in fhe 1950 World Cup. And some other very good players. Funny old game, football.
