Tom Finney

[Conrad]

RIP

 

A true gentleman of the game

 

I remember well his interview after the 5-0 against Forest. He'd never seen a better display of attacking football in his life

It really set the seal on that performance.

 

EDIT - just seen this in the other thread, but I think Tom Finney deserves his own thread. As mentioned elsewhere, Shanks' favourite player

Edited February 14, 2014 by Heighway 61 Revisited

[New York Red]

He had a great run. 91.

 

Is there any film of him?

 

RIP.

[5InIstanbul]

Legend in a true sense for once. RIP Tom.

[kop205]

If he was good enough for Shanks then he was good enough for me.

[dorgie]

RIP

[Runehammer]

He had a great run. 91.

 

Is there any film of him?

 

RIP.

 

There are a few clips on Youtube but they are awful quality (as you'd expect).

 

Despite this sentence coming from a piece on the Fail online it brilliantly sums up the man:

 

When the Italians of Palermo came knocking on the door of his terrace house in 1952 offering a £10,000 signing-on fee, £100 a week, a staffed villa on Lake Como and a Maserati — on top of what would have been a record transfer fee of £50,000 — he chose to stay on £12 a week at Deepdale, explaining to his bewildered suitors: ‘I’m a Preston man, always.’

 

That's a proper legend; RIP.

[kop205]

There are a few clips on Youtube but they are awful quality (as you'd expect).

 

Despite this sentence coming from a piece on the Fail online it brilliantly sums up the man:

 

When the Italians of Palermo came knocking on the door of his terrace house in 1952 offering a £10,000 signing-on fee, £100 a week, a staffed villa on Lake Como and a Maserati — on top of what would have been a record transfer fee of £50,000 — he chose to stay on £12 a week at Deepdale, explaining to his bewildered suitors: ‘I’m a Preston man, always.’

 

That's a proper legend; RIP.

 

The other version of the story of course is that the Preston chairman told them to f*** off before they even got to him.

 

But either way, no sulking, no threats of going on strike, no transfer request, he just got on with it.

 

Sad really that his passing has attracted so few comments on here, especially given the regard in which Shankly held him.

[Rich Gobey]

Stan Mortenson was asked the question, who was the finest crosser of a ball, Finney or Stanley Matthews. Mortenson chose Finney as he said he always got the laces on the ball to face face the right way.

 

I.e, so Mortenson didn't have the laces scratch his forehead.

[matty]

There are a few clips on Youtube but they are awful quality (as you'd expect).

 

Despite this sentence coming from a piece on the Fail online it brilliantly sums up the man:

 

When the Italians of Palermo came knocking on the door of his terrace house in 1952 offering a £10,000 signing-on fee, £100 a week, a staffed villa on Lake Como and a Maserati — on top of what would have been a record transfer fee of £50,000 — he chose to stay on £12 a week at Deepdale, explaining to his bewildered suitors: ‘I’m a Preston man, always.’

 

That's a proper legend; RIP.

Lake Como to Palermo is a tricky old commute, like.

[Stevie H]

Sad really that his passing has attracted so few comments on here, especially given the regard in which Shankly held him.

 

i just never saw him play so it's hard to comment really. but the shanks endorsement is obviously pretty telling like.