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
Ladd S. Gordon Waterfowl Complex Ladd S. Gordon Waterfowl Complex The Ladd S. Gordon Waterfowl Complex is a group of four conservation area in New Mexico devoted to assisting birdlife in the region. The Ladd S. Gordon Waterfowl Complex contains four wildlife management areas in Valencia and Socorro County, New Mexico, near Bernardo. The largest is La Joya and the second largest is the Bernardo Waterfowl Area (BWA). There are smaller Waterfowl Management Areas (WMAs) at Casa Colorada, (), and Belen with , at both of which corn and alfalfa are cultivated to provide food for the birds. The WMAs are supported by sale of