Billy Bingham, former Northern Ireland manager and player, dies aged 90

Billy Bingham with his goalkeeper Pat Jennings before a Northern Ireland World Cup qualifier against Romania in October 1985. Photograph: Getty Images

Billy Bingham, who led Northern Ireland to successive World Cups in 1982 and 1986, has died at the age of 90. He had lived with dementia for 16 years.

Bingham made 227 appearances for Sunderland and won the league championship with Everton in 1963 but it was with Northern Ireland, for whom he won 56 caps and managed for 17 years in total, that he enjoyed his most celebrated successes.