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
Gordon S. Marshall Gordon S. Marshall Gordon S. Marshall was an American businessman and philanthropist. He was the founder of Marshall Industries (), a publicly traded company from 1984 to 1999. Gordon S. Marshall died on June 2, 2015 at the age of 95. Gordon S. Marshall was born in Los Angeles, California in 1919. He graduated from the University of Southern California in 1946. He served as a bomber pilot for the United States in World War II. He founded Marshall Industries, headquartered in El Monte, California, in 1982. He served as its President from April 1982 to June 1992, and as