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Posted: **Fri Feb 14, 2014 9:29 pm**

Preston and England legend Tom Finney has died.RIP Tom.

Posted: **Fri Feb 14, 2014 9:48 pm**

True legend of the game. Very sad news. RIP Tom

Posted: **Fri Feb 14, 2014 9:59 pm**

Arguably England's finest footballer this side of the last world war. A genuine loss to football in this country. RIP.

Posted: **Fri Feb 14, 2014 10:00 pm**

Peter Doherty (AGAIG) wrote:Arguably England's finest footballer this side of the last world war. A genuine loss to football in this country. RIP.

I never saw him play but my Dad reckons he was better than Matthews.

Posted: **Sat Feb 15, 2014 12:22 am**

R.I.P True great of the game

Posted: **Sat Feb 15, 2014 1:19 am**

Sad news. Probably the last of the heroes in my Big Book of Football Champions, 1955.Lovely manfrom a time when players earned a bit more than plumbers, but not much.

Posted: **Sat Feb 15, 2014 2:05 am**

A true legend & a gent.

Better than Stanley Matthews according to everyone I've spoken to who saw the two of them play.

Posted: **Sat Feb 15, 2014 8:44 pm**

He retired before I was born, but I had the good fortune to meet him once and my Grandad who saw him play was unceasing in his praise of the man.

The tributes to him are all completely justified and we'll never see football players of his kind ever again.

Posted: **Sat Feb 15, 2014 8:55 pm**

Met him once at Deepdale in the sponsors lounge, a thoroughly charming gent. There's a nice story about him receiving a letter from a fan's wife once. It was going to be her husband's 50th birthday and with the letter she sent Tom a birthday card for hubby for him to sign and send back as a surprise. Tom rang the woman and asked when the party was. He duly turned up on the night to present the card himself.

Posted: **Sun Feb 16, 2014 12:52 am**

The event that I liked was when England played USSR in the 1958 WC. England won a penalty, Tom Finney, who was left footed, took it with his right and scored (against Yashin, probably the best goalie of his generation. Does anyone else know of someone taking a pen with his "wrong" foot?

Posted: **Sun Feb 16, 2014 3:11 am**

RIP, legend Finney.

Posted: **Tue Feb 18, 2014 3:08 am**

Lev Bronstein wrote:The event that I liked was when England played USSR in the 1958 WC. England won a penalty, Tom Finney, who was left footed, took it with his right and scored (against Yashin, probably the best goalie of his generation. Does anyone else know of someone taking a pen with his "wrong" foot?

I saw the penalty on TV with a programme by Alan Hansen and Mark Lawrenson.

He was ambidextrous so it wasn't that big a risk!

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