:00:04. > :00:14.This week, one of English football's all-time greats turns 90.
:00:14. > :00:30.
:00:30. > :00:37.Tonight we celebrate Sir Tom Finney. Coming up, the Preston plumber who
:00:37. > :00:42.became the perfect player. Happy birthday Sir Tom Finney. Juggling
:00:42. > :00:47.today is a lost art. There is only one player today I know of who
:00:47. > :00:52.juggles and that is the little fella in Barcelona. Five and
:00:52. > :00:58.finally alive. We look back on Burnley's day out. And here is this
:00:58. > :01:01.pushing back for the play-offs? With us tonight in the studio, a
:01:01. > :01:04.man who knows Sir Tom well from nine years as both a player and
:01:04. > :01:07.manager at Preston, the current boss of Everton, David Moyes. And a
:01:07. > :01:14.former England captain who faced Sir Tom Finney in a whole host of
:01:14. > :01:19.Blackpool-North End derbies, Jimmy Armfield. Jimmy, you have seen many
:01:19. > :01:23.players in your lifetime and played against many, where does Tom Finney
:01:23. > :01:27.rank? If I had to put him anywhere I would put him among so top
:01:27. > :01:31.players we have ever produced. Anyone who saw him regularly would
:01:31. > :01:36.agree with that because more than anything, it was his attitude to
:01:36. > :01:42.the way he played, the talent and the other thing about him was he
:01:42. > :01:48.was so versatile. He could play across the forced line and anywhere.
:01:48. > :01:56.David, or in your mind years, how big an influence was he on you?
:01:56. > :02:02.was a big influence on everyone. He certainly helped me and Gary Peters
:02:02. > :02:08.before me. He knew everything about it. It was very simple with Tom. He
:02:08. > :02:10.was not just a great footballer, but unexceptional man. More insight
:02:10. > :02:13.shortly. Quite simply he's a legend. A
:02:13. > :02:16.legend and a gentleman. Sir Tom Finney is one of the finest English
:02:16. > :02:19.players of all time. His entire career, 14 years, was spent at
:02:19. > :02:22.Deepdale. He is Mr Preston North End. On Thursday, Sir Tom reaches
:02:22. > :02:32.another milestone - his 90th birthday. Andy Johnson has this
:02:32. > :02:41.
:02:41. > :02:51.tribute from all of us at Late Kick I always think he was definitely
:02:51. > :02:57.one that you could say was the best. Two great feat, terrific in the air,
:02:57. > :03:07.brave as a lion. He had everything. A one club man. A one-off. 14 years
:03:07. > :03:09.
:03:09. > :03:14.with Preston North End. 4 33 league appearances, 187 goals. All of the
:03:14. > :03:19.football clubs have loved to play Preston because Tommy put thousands
:03:19. > :03:22.on the gate. They would go in their thousands just a seed Tommy Finney
:03:22. > :03:25.Perry. Although the war robbed him of some
:03:25. > :03:28.of his best playing years, Tom Finney was footballer of the year
:03:28. > :03:31.twice in the fifties. He didn't win any domestic honours and he could
:03:31. > :03:35.have earned more elsewhere - he once turned down a lucrative move
:03:35. > :03:37.to Italy. It wasn't for him. He only ever wanted to play for his
:03:37. > :03:45.beloved Preston. Tommy Docherty played for nine years alongside the
:03:45. > :03:51.great man. I would rather play behind him than
:03:51. > :03:57.against him. Jimmy used to say, get the ball and give it to Finney. He
:03:57. > :04:01.said don't worry, he will do the rest. That is what I used to do. As
:04:01. > :04:07.you get an understanding with Tom, he made bad passes look great.
:04:07. > :04:13.greatest asset was his dribbling ability. He would beat a player on
:04:13. > :04:18.a sixpence. Dribbling today is a lost art. There is only one player
:04:18. > :04:21.in football that I know who dribbles and that is the little
:04:21. > :04:24.fella at Barcelona. Like all players with supreme
:04:24. > :04:34.ability, he was the recipient of some agricultural challenges from
:04:34. > :04:40.opponents. Fizzin' Heck, I remember he said. I was describing somebody
:04:40. > :04:47.when we had a few minutes and he was shocked once when somebody
:04:47. > :04:53.actually fouled him and just ran away and did not apologise. He said,
:04:53. > :05:00.Fizzin' Heck, he said. Fizzin' Heck! He could not believe it. He
:05:00. > :05:03.could not believe everybody had the audacity to tackle him.
:05:03. > :05:05.It seems inconceivable now with the millionaire lifestyles enjoyed by
:05:05. > :05:15.today's top players, but throughout his playing career, Tom Finney
:05:15. > :05:18.
:05:18. > :05:22.continued to work as a plumber. After training, we used to go
:05:22. > :05:27.outside and his wheelbarrow was in the car park. I don't know why they
:05:27. > :05:34.had a car park because there were no cars. The directors had a car,
:05:34. > :05:39.you know, but Sir Tom had a wheelbarrow. Ken was an accountant
:05:39. > :05:45.and Ken used to do the secretarial work for Tom's business. Tom and
:05:45. > :05:49.his brother used to push the wheelbarrow to plumbing jobs.
:05:49. > :05:59.was it unfair to describe Preston as a one-man team? They used to
:05:59. > :06:00.
:06:00. > :06:03.call us the plumbing a team. Be it wasn't bad. It was not a bad quote,
:06:03. > :06:05.that. Tom Finney won 76 caps for his
:06:05. > :06:10.country. As his international career drew to a close another
:06:11. > :06:17.illustrious one was beginning. I remember when I played my first
:06:17. > :06:23.game for England, I could not believe it. Tommy Finney was left
:06:23. > :06:30.winger. Tommy Finney went down and he didn't even look up. You could -
:06:30. > :06:36.- he could see with his peripheral vision. He just clipped the ball to
:06:36. > :06:42.the spot, the penalty spot, and I could not just help it. I was in my
:06:42. > :06:48.stride and a whack it in the back of the net. Whenever anybody said,
:06:48. > :06:53.what was that like? I said it was more my ambition to play with Tommy
:06:53. > :06:57.Finney. Bill Shankly was a colleague here and he said that Tom
:06:57. > :07:02.Finney would have been great in any team, any match of any era even if
:07:02. > :07:04.he had been wearing an overcoat. Of course that meant he faced the
:07:04. > :07:07.likes of Shanks and Tommy Docherty when England played Scotland. The
:07:07. > :07:12.way he was treated by his club colleagues on international duty
:07:12. > :07:18.didn't always go down well at Deepdale.
:07:18. > :07:26.I went back to Preston on the Monday and Mr Buck was the chairman
:07:26. > :07:34.then and I said, I want to see year. They said, look, I am not happy
:07:34. > :07:40.with you. I said, why? He said, the way you treated Tom at Wembley on
:07:40. > :07:45.Saturday. I felt you were very rough, to say the least, on Tommy.
:07:45. > :07:49.I said, he was playing for England and I was playing for Scotland and
:07:49. > :07:56.I am sorry if I offended you. He said, I have some tablets to give
:07:56. > :08:01.you to call you down. I said I don't need any tablets. You can put
:08:01. > :08:06.these tablets way you put the carrots. I told Tom about it and he
:08:06. > :08:15.was killing himself laughing. Finney plays his last game for
:08:15. > :08:19.Preston at home, the date, 30th April.
:08:19. > :08:22.In 1960, Finney played his last league game. The world was changing
:08:22. > :08:32.and just as the sixties were about to swing, a truly great player and
:08:32. > :08:36.
:08:36. > :08:42.a great man hung up his boots. I just feel sorry for the people
:08:42. > :08:49.who never saw him play. They miss something special. He was Preston
:08:49. > :08:57.North End. Simple as that. He will be for the rest of his life.
:08:57. > :09:01.just had this aura. Femi has got the ball, Finney has got the ball.
:09:01. > :09:11.Hundreds of thousands of people used to travel miles and miles to
:09:11. > :09:13.
:09:13. > :09:19.try and see his skill and see him play. Brilliant stuff. Memories for
:09:19. > :09:24.year and for people like me, an eye-opener. Comparing him to many
:09:24. > :09:30.great players. What was he like? What could he do? What Jimmy were
:09:30. > :09:35.saying there I think is true. He was like recipe. On the left foot
:09:35. > :09:40.all the time. When he played on the right wing he used to trap the ball
:09:40. > :09:45.and if you went that way, he always went inside. Reading his mind was
:09:45. > :09:52.not easy. It was his versatility and his strength. People never
:09:53. > :09:57.think about that, he could run for ever. That kind of strength? He had
:09:57. > :10:02.an inner strength. I don't know what it was. He was great in the
:10:02. > :10:06.air. He was not good in the air. I once saw him play at Arsenal and I
:10:06. > :10:12.think that is the best display I have ever seen by a player in one
:10:12. > :10:17.match. He was up, back, jumping with centre-halves. He was great.
:10:17. > :10:23.It was his versatility that I always thought took him into
:10:23. > :10:28.greatness. Did he turn up with tricks? As they would today? Yes,
:10:28. > :10:32.he dribbled past players. That was to strike. He used to trap the ball
:10:32. > :10:37.with his left foot and dip with his right shoulder. When he played
:10:37. > :10:43.against me I would think he would come inside, is he? May be. He was
:10:43. > :10:49.very difficult to weigh up. Like Matthews, from here to there, not
:10:49. > :10:53.much mutters, he'd got it. David, you came from Celtic where they had
:10:53. > :10:59.legends. When you came to Preston were you aware of him and what he
:10:59. > :11:03.stood for? Of course I have -- of course I was aware of Sir Tom
:11:03. > :11:10.Finney. Not as a player because he was out of my era, but the more I
:11:10. > :11:15.got to the club I understood him. I got to watch clips like we watch
:11:15. > :11:20.just now and to understand how good a player he was. I got to know him
:11:20. > :11:23.more as a person and as a man. is when I met him when he was
:11:23. > :11:28.showing me around the pavilion stand before they pulled the inner
:11:28. > :11:32.workings alt. He loves the club, doesn't he? What does he mean to
:11:32. > :11:38.the people of Preston? Tommy Docherty said it there, he is
:11:38. > :11:44.Preston. He was when I was there. Everything there was from Tom. Tom
:11:44. > :11:49.let us out what we were the championship. It was his club and
:11:49. > :11:55.everybody in Preston knows him. He is a fine, fine man and obviously a
:11:55. > :12:02.great player. Jimmy, you were with him at the weekend. What sort of a
:12:02. > :12:08.manager was the? He was a gentleman. The worst heat said was Fizzin'
:12:08. > :12:12.Heck. Nothing about him was, why players like him was his attitude
:12:12. > :12:19.to the game. He never feigned injury. If he got tripped or felt
:12:19. > :12:24.he got up and walked on. I think his attitude and steered him to the
:12:24. > :12:29.people. As a really great footballer and sportsman he endear
:12:29. > :12:33.himself to the public because he was so modest. He could not
:12:33. > :12:39.understand the acclaim he got. man who keeps a wheelbarrow in the
:12:39. > :12:45.car-park is modest. That would not borrowed -- bother Tom. We are told
:12:45. > :12:51.that when he got the ball, nowadays there is a crescendo, we were told
:12:51. > :12:56.he -- we were told the crowd went quiet waiting to see what he did.
:12:56. > :13:01.Tommy Docherty said it, he was Preston. You expected something to
:13:01. > :13:08.happen. People used to say who lived in our area, they had the joy
:13:08. > :13:13.of watching Matthews one week and Tom Finney the next. It is
:13:13. > :13:20.incredible to Maj-Gen -- Imogen. David, did he have influence of
:13:20. > :13:24.new? Yes, when I got the job he used to come in on a Friday. We
:13:24. > :13:31.would talk about the team and I would say, I don't know what to do.
:13:31. > :13:34.Everything he did was simple, basic. I was saying to Jimmy, up we would
:13:34. > :13:39.think the fall-back was going to shoot the line and he would say,
:13:39. > :13:44.taking inside. If he shows too much, taken on the outside. It was all
:13:44. > :13:50.simple. He was a great support for me. He was up-to-date with football,
:13:50. > :13:56.what was going on. He used to talk about players earning too much, and
:13:56. > :13:59.rightly so. The life he had to have as well as football, but overall he
:13:59. > :14:04.was a great help and it was great to have someone like that come in
:14:04. > :14:12.and give us a little bit of time. In his own way he wanted to be kept
:14:12. > :14:15.Well, onto present day Preston now and an amazing accusation from
:14:15. > :14:20.manager Graham Westley that kicks off Howard Booth's League One
:14:20. > :14:23.round-up. While it's these two goals from Gary Madine that looked
:14:23. > :14:25.to have sealed North End's fate at Hillsborough, manager Graham
:14:25. > :14:28.Westley would later claim four of his own players had undermined
:14:28. > :14:34.their efforts by revealing the Preston team and tactics to
:14:35. > :14:40.Sheffield Wednesday before the game. Here's what he told BBC Radio
:14:40. > :14:45.Lancashire's Andy Bayes. When you have got people in your camp
:14:45. > :14:49.working against you, an enemy within, it is tough. I will
:14:49. > :14:54.overcome it because these are the barriers you have to jump over. You
:14:54. > :15:01.have got 35 players and some might not be the future and it can be
:15:01. > :15:04.different. Take a bow Bury, a first win in14! Efe Sodje and Giles Coke
:15:04. > :15:07.got the goals that secured The Shakers first win since and
:15:07. > :15:10.consigned Rovers to a first defeat in six since Ronnie Moore's return.
:15:10. > :15:14.Two down to relegation rivals Walsall, Rochdale launched the kind
:15:14. > :15:17.of comeback that can turn round a season. Jean Louis Akpa Akpro
:15:17. > :15:20.halved the arrears on 66 minutes, Michael Symes' penalty levelled
:15:20. > :15:23.matters with eight minutes to go and Akpa Akpro's second three
:15:23. > :15:29.minutes into injury time looked to have won a serious six pointer it
:15:29. > :15:32.for Dale. But much to John Coleman's frustration and the fans'
:15:32. > :15:38.disbelief, his side failed to hang on, dropping crucial points to Andy
:15:38. > :15:41.Butler's 94th minute equaliser. Last week, we reported back to back
:15:41. > :15:44.1-0 wins for Oldham, this time it's successive single goal defeats
:15:44. > :15:47.after Tuesday's loss to Leyton orient and this reverse at Meadow
:15:47. > :15:50.Lane. Chris Taylor hit the post from long range for The Latics, but
:15:50. > :15:58.it was Alan Sheehan's last minute strike which won it for the home
:15:58. > :16:02.Well I don't think we've heard the last of that Preston story, listen
:16:02. > :16:05.into BBC Radio Lancashire for the latest all week. Graham is due to
:16:05. > :16:06.meet the press next on Thursday. meet the press next on Thursday.
:16:06. > :16:08.It's not inconceivable that North End could find themselves in
:16:08. > :16:11.relegation trouble. In their next five games they face promotion
:16:11. > :16:17.chasing MK Dons, Huddersfield and Charlton and there's also a trip to
:16:17. > :16:20.Graham Westley's former club Late Kick Off makes way for the
:16:20. > :16:24.Football League Show next week, but we'll report from North End-
:16:24. > :16:27.Huddersfield when we return two weeks tonight, April the 16th. Now
:16:27. > :16:30.it's not often you get to compare Crewe with Manchester United, but
:16:30. > :16:33.right now, they're the only two teams in England unbeaten in their
:16:33. > :16:36.last ten games. In fact, since Steve Davis took over last November,
:16:36. > :16:46.The Railwaymen have lost just 4 of their games. Sarah Mulkerrins was
:16:46. > :16:49.
:16:49. > :16:55.at Gresty Road on Saturday to see They have gone from 18th to 8th.
:16:55. > :16:59.What is it about Steve Davis that is bringing up results? He has got
:16:59. > :17:04.his way of playing and he suits us a little bit better. He will put us
:17:04. > :17:09.in our place and he is quite strict, which is what we need and he has
:17:09. > :17:13.got as playing the right way. the right way after an unbeaten run
:17:13. > :17:17.of nine games and sitting pretty on the edge of the play-offs. The
:17:17. > :17:21.biggest change in the past couple of months according to the manager
:17:21. > :17:26.has been the increased mental toughness and a willingness to win.
:17:26. > :17:32.He has been keen to deflect praise away from himself and on to the
:17:32. > :17:36.squad. They have to go out with that belief and strength in the
:17:36. > :17:40.games and they have got great together this which we have
:17:40. > :17:45.improved. We have improved on the football pitch and they are working
:17:45. > :17:51.hard for each other and that is one of the ingredients to the success
:17:51. > :17:57.that we have recently had. How are you enjoying it? Relishing it! I
:17:57. > :18:00.love it, I have to save. I enjoy coming in every day. There is a new
:18:00. > :18:04.challenge every day and I'd love working with the players,
:18:04. > :18:09.especially when they are responding. The fans seem to be responding as
:18:09. > :18:14.well. It has been really good recently and we have had good
:18:14. > :18:20.results. You are a fan of his management style? I think so, he
:18:20. > :18:28.has done well. He can be a bit strict. That is what we believe and
:18:28. > :18:35.that has been needed for several years. He has had a quite nine or
:18:35. > :18:44.10 matches and then it changed. He is still a good bloke. But standing
:18:44. > :18:49.in the way of another bid result, Northampton Town. Freedom best
:18:49. > :18:59.describes the first half. The striker was are unstoppable. It was
:18:59. > :19:03.look Murphy's cool control that put them in the lead. -- Luke Murphy.
:19:03. > :19:09.But Northampton were back in the game thanks to Afinkenwa. An
:19:09. > :19:18.injury-time penalty summed it up. Be keeper guessed correctly and
:19:18. > :19:23.denied them a late winner. We did not do it today. Mainly because the
:19:23. > :19:27.players looked a bit too relaxed and they were just watching it. It
:19:27. > :19:32.did not work but I thought I would try something different. They have
:19:32. > :19:37.got to focus themselves. You can only say so much to try and put
:19:37. > :19:42.things right. But they have got to sit there for the 15 minutes and
:19:42. > :19:48.get focused for the second half but we are not quite doing that.
:19:48. > :19:58.parallels with yourself, David? How difficult is it to progress through
:19:58. > :19:58.
:19:58. > :20:05.the Manx as a manager? -- the ranks. It is very difficult but I think he
:20:05. > :20:10.has got good support. He did not start well but he has won games. He
:20:10. > :20:16.has built great foundations over the years. It is great to see them
:20:16. > :20:20.getting the opportunity. Do you keep an eye on the Football League?
:20:20. > :20:29.Yes, we have to because a lot of signings come from there and we
:20:29. > :20:32.keep updated on what is going on. One North West team did Crewe a
:20:32. > :20:35.favour in the play-off race this weekend. With the rest of the
:20:35. > :20:38.League Two action, here's Sarah It was Morecambe doing both Alex and
:20:38. > :20:47.themselves a favour at the Kassam Stadium with a win over play-off
:20:47. > :20:50.Craig Curran put them ahead early on, while Stewart Drummond headed
:20:51. > :20:54.on, while Stewart Drummond headed the decider after the break.
:20:54. > :21:02.Macclesfield were also away to a side chasing a top seven spot, but
:21:02. > :21:04.the only thing on Macc minds is their battle to beat the drop. It's
:21:04. > :21:07.an increasingly uphill fight, after goals from Matt Fish and Chris
:21:07. > :21:11.Whelpdale secured a 2-0 win for Gillingham, leaving The Silkmen
:21:11. > :21:18.still in the relegation zone. Accrington arrested their winless
:21:18. > :21:21.run at three, thanks to a home win over AFC Wimbledon. Luke Joyce gave
:21:21. > :21:24.them the lead after Bobby Grant's free kick wasn't collected, while
:21:24. > :21:34.Will Hatfield was the man who won it late on, Grant again providing
:21:34. > :21:36.
:21:36. > :21:40.important those two points dropped by Crewe could be, they still have
:21:40. > :21:42.plenty of work to do if they're to extend their season. Into the
:21:42. > :21:47.bottom half and Macclesfield's plight. Three of their remaining
:21:47. > :21:50.six games are against teams chasing From the League Two basement to the
:21:50. > :21:53.Championship now and while Blackpool cheered up Jimmy with a
:21:53. > :22:03.big win, Phil Cunliffe starts his round up with an even bigger one
:22:03. > :22:03.
:22:03. > :22:09.for Burnley. A wonderful lead for Burnley at Fratton Park. But it was
:22:09. > :22:14.level three minutes later. But a header restored Burnley's advantage.
:22:14. > :22:20.header restored Burnley's advantage. It was made safe by this hat trick.
:22:20. > :22:24.He switches into the penalty area! Is it going to go in? It is!
:22:24. > :22:34.Charlie Austin, he has danced around the goal and rolls it into
:22:34. > :22:36.
:22:37. > :22:42.the net. Will he cross? It is a hat trick for Charlie Austin! Striker
:22:42. > :22:46.Stephen Dobbie Hogg t headline but it was his penalty saved that got
:22:46. > :22:51.them going against Southampton. He made his first home appearance
:22:51. > :22:56.since signing on loan from Swansea and was inch-perfect after a tumble
:22:56. > :23:02.midway through the first half. Nine minutes later, he is and
:23:02. > :23:12.Blackpool's second. Great composure to find the finish past Davies.
:23:12. > :23:13.
:23:13. > :23:17.Championship shows Blackpool back in the top six but it looks like
:23:17. > :23:20.five or even six teams battling for three play off places. Burnley stay
:23:20. > :23:23.16th, despite that big win, but they can improve that position and
:23:23. > :23:26.help Blackpool out as well with a victory in their game in hand at
:23:26. > :23:29.home to Birmingham tomorrow night. Oldham are also in action at
:23:29. > :23:32.Brentford while several of our sides get the Easter weekend
:23:32. > :23:36.underway on Good Friday. All of our League Two teams are in action then,
:23:36. > :23:46.keep up to date with all the games and all the news all week on your
:23:46. > :23:50.
:23:50. > :23:56.Where would Tom be playing today? I was reading he could play in all
:23:56. > :23:59.five forward positions. Yes, he has done in his time. He has definitely
:23:59. > :24:05.played on both wings and inside forward when he was developing as a
:24:05. > :24:10.player. He would certainly be in the England team. He would not be
:24:10. > :24:15.able to stay at Preston. Not today. The money would be too much of an
:24:15. > :24:23.inducement at Preston as well. The words are inseparable. Him and
:24:23. > :24:27.Preston. The films do not do him justice, really. Television has
:24:27. > :24:33.moved on the same as football has and consequently you do not really
:24:33. > :24:37.see him at his best. But take it from me, he was terrific. Young
:24:37. > :24:46.players had taken it on board. They have been comparing him to Lionel
:24:46. > :24:52.Messi. Wherever he went, people said, Tom Finney, Tom Finney. I got
:24:52. > :24:58.him a birthday card at the weekend saying that he was 90 today. These
:24:58. > :25:08.were people board in 1922 like Doris Day, Ava Gardner and Tom
:25:08. > :25:09.
:25:09. > :25:15.Finney. -- form. -- were born. we producing legends like this
:25:15. > :25:20.today? Who will we be talking about like this in 90 years? We hope to
:25:20. > :25:25.produce similar legends but whether we produce somebody that has his
:25:25. > :25:30.loyalty and service to his country and one town and one team, I do not
:25:30. > :25:34.know if we will see that again and that is what makes him special. But
:25:34. > :25:41.the game needs it. Football has moved on from that period and we
:25:41. > :25:46.need new Superstars but everybody talks about Temple stop do players
:25:46. > :25:50.today appreciate --. Two players appreciate players like him?
:25:50. > :25:57.think they should because you can learn an awful lot from players of
:25:57. > :26:05.the past. He is obviously even further back than some legendary
:26:05. > :26:08.players but he was certainly one of Well thanks very much to you both,
:26:08. > :26:10.Jimmy and David, for your thoughts tonight. Sir Tom has retired from
:26:10. > :26:13.public appearances but we're assured he's being well looked
:26:13. > :26:17.after as he prepares for the big day on Thursday. We're going to say
:26:17. > :26:20.goodbye in a way we think most fitting for the great man himself.
:26:20. > :26:30.With memories and good wishes from his peers and the people of Preston.
:26:30. > :26:31.
:26:31. > :26:37.From everyone at Late Kick Off, My memories of him were being stood
:26:37. > :26:42.on the Kop watching him play and realising how lucky I was to be
:26:42. > :26:52.able to see a player of his skills at that time. My hairs on my neck
:26:52. > :26:54.
:26:54. > :26:59.were standing up with the excitement. Tom Finney to me, in my
:26:59. > :27:04.opinion, the greatest ever, in my opinion. A pleasure to play behind
:27:04. > :27:09.him in all those years and we will never meet your like again and it
:27:09. > :27:19.has been a privilege and a pleasure to be on the same field with you.
:27:19. > :27:20.
:27:20. > :27:27.Got less, take care, Tommy. could score brilliant goals and
:27:27. > :27:32.beat men used to play it. A good team man. -- beat players are used
:27:32. > :27:41.to play. A good all-round footballer. -- beat players
:27:41. > :27:51.brilliantly. It would not surprise me one little bit if he went out on
:27:51. > :27:54.
:27:54. > :27:59.the field at 90. I still think he could walk past them! You always
:27:59. > :28:05.knew that when he went down on the field, we were good. It is going to
:28:06. > :28:12.be a great cross. There is always somebody there. A lot of
:28:12. > :28:16.footballers felt the same but he was a great footballer. Tommy,
:28:16. > :28:22.thank you for letting me called you Tommy. It has been an absolute
:28:22. > :28:27.pleasure watching you play, from when I first started playing and
:28:28. > :28:35.occasionally got the opportunity. It was the greatest pleasure that
:28:35. > :28:44.anybody could ever have. I have so many happy memories about watching