Matt Gillies then club record incoming fee of £80,000 and the unrest over pay saw Leicester slump to 18th that season in the league. The signing of Derek Dougan for £21,000 from Peterborough United and Jackie Sinclair from Dunfermline for £25,000 the following summer though saw the club rejuvenated and again become a strong force in the First Division. However, having just celebrated victory in the 1966 World Cup and having cemented a reputation as being one of the world's foremost goalkeepers, Gordon Banks was under pressure from upcoming youth star Peter Shilton. Shilton wanted first team football and realised that with
Peter S. Beagle Peter S. Beagle Peter Soyer Beagle (born April 20, 1939) is an American novelist and screenwriter, especially fantasy fiction. His best-known work is "The Last Unicorn" (1968), a fantasy novel he wrote in his twenties, which "Locus" subscribers voted the number five "All-Time Best Fantasy Novel" in 1987. During the last twenty-five years he has won several literary awards, including a World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 2011. He was named Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master by SFWA in 2018. Beagle was born in Manhattan on April 20, 1939, the son of Rebecca Soyer and Simon Beagle. Three of