Published: March 04, 2019
Funeral in Stoke-on-Trent remembers ‘modest family man’ despite achievements
Thousands of football fans, families and schoolchildren lined the streets of Stoke-on-Trent on Monday to celebrate the life of Gordon Banks, one of the world’s greatest goalkeepers and the “supreme gentleman of football”.
The Staffordshire city came to a standstill as crowds gathered to applaud Banks’s funeral cortege as it travelled from the club’s stadium to Stoke Minster.
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