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Born in Preston, Sir Tom Finney spent his entire career playing for Preston North End. He made his Football League debut aged 24 but still played 433 games and scored a staggering 187 goals for the club.
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He also scored 30 goals for England in 76 international games, including this strike against Italy in Turin in 1948.
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His loyalty to Preston meant the only domestic honour he won was a championship medal in the old Division Two in 1951.
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Finney twice won the footballer of the year award, given annually by the Football Writers' Association - including this presentation in London in 1954.
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He was well know for his sportsmanship and didn't receive a single booking in his whole career.
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Tom set up a plumbing company with his brother which he carried on working for even when his footballing career set off.
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Finney had to settle for an FA Cup runners-up medal when Preston lost in the 1954 final to West Bromwich Albion. He also narrowly missed out on the old First Division title in the 1957-58 season when North End finished runners-up.
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Finney was a key part of the England set-up. Here he is at the England World Cup squad in Roehampton in 1958.
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Finney was once tempted to leave North End, when Italian club Palermo offered him £120 a week plus a villa and car to move there. He was on only £14 a week at the time but the Preston chairman refused to discuss it and Finney stayed with North End until he retired in 1960.
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Finney and his wife, Elsie, at Buckingham Palace as he receives his OBE on 24 October 1961. He was later knighted in 1998
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Serving as club president for many years, he remained a staunch supporter of North End, celebrating their Division Two title win with manager David Moyes in 2000.
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Sir Tom Finney spent his final years in a nursing home, but by the time he died at the age of 91 on 14 February 2014, he was England's oldest international footballer and - along with Roy Bentley - one of only two players remaining from the side which lost 1-0 to the United States at the 1950 World Cup.
