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. Prescott Peter S. Prescott Peter S. Prescott was an American author and book critic. He was the senior book reviewer at "Newsweek" for more than two decades. In January, 1970, Prescott published "A World of Our Own: Notes on Life and Learning in a Boys' Preparatory School," which described his alma mater, The Choate School, (now Choate Rosemary Hall). In the April 10, 1978 issue of "Newsweek", he accused John Gardner of plagiarism, citing a previously published article by Sumner J. Ferris. In 1981 he publish "The Child Savers," which won the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights