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. Kraus Peter S. Kraus Peter S. Kraus is an American businessman, philanthropist and art collector. He currently serves as the Chairman and CEO of Aperture Investors, an asset management firm which he founded in 2018. From 2008 through 2017, Peter was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of AllianceBernstein (AB), a global asset management firm with approximately US$400 billion under management listed on the New York Stock Exchange as . Prior to that, he worked for Goldman Sachs for two decades. He is one of the largest collectors of contemporary art in the world. Peter S. Kraus was born in Philadelphia,