1966–67 Stoke City F.C. season within the next twelve months. In the summer of 1966 Waddington secured the services of former Newcastle United winger George Eastham from Arsenal for £35,000. The other was goalkeeper Gordon Banks who was snapped up for a bargain £52,000 from Leicester City in April 1967. Matt Gillies, the Leicester manager was coming under considerable pressure to play his young reserve Peter Shilton and decided to sell the 29-year-old Banks to Stoke. It is widely considered that this was a 'steal' as Banks carried on to play for England for another five years. Banks left English football in 1972 and ironically
Peter S. Grosscup Peter S. Grosscup Peter Stenger Grosscup (February 15, 1852 – October 1, 1921) was a United States federal judge. Grosscup is best remembered for having made use of the judicial injunction against strikers in labor disputes, including most notably the leadership of the American Railway Union in the 1894 Pullman Strike. Peter S. Grosscup was born in Ashland, Ohio, on February 15, 1852. Grosscup received an Bachelor of Arts from Wittenberg College in 1872 and a Bachelor of Laws from Boston University School of Law in 1873. He was in private practice in Ashland, Ohio from 1873 to 1875 and