Francis ‘Franny’ Lee was the unstoppable winger today’s Premier League clubs are always trying to find. Nowadays, £70m will buy you only bits of what Lee brought to Manchester City’s wide attacking. And he was the shrewd entrepreneur many current players would love to be.
“A fighting cock of a player, dynamic and pugnacious,” is how the late James Lawton described Lee in his book, Forever Boys, a description borne out in late 1960s footage of him not only bamboozling Bobby Moore with his positional sense but knocking the England captain flat on his back in a challenge.
