Pep Guardiola hails Lee as 'part of what Manchester City are'
'Football is in our blood': Alexis Mac Allister to face brother Kevin in Liverpool-Union tieon Wednesday evening as a tribute to the club’s former striker and chairman Francis Lee, who died aged 79 on Monday after a long battle with cancer., also wore black armbands during their pre-match press conference, while the club’s players and coaching staff held a minute’s silence ahead of training on Tuesday morning.
The striker went on to grab 148 goals in 330 appearances for City between 1967-74, winning a First Division title in 1968, theIn 1971-72, Lee became the first City player to score more than 30 league goals in a season for 35 years, netting 35 – including a British record 15 penalties.
“It’s a good job I didn’t get in the dressing room afterwards,” Lee later recalled. “As I might have just been coming out on parole now.He added: “It wasn’t play-acting you know. He had tapped me on the shoulder, hit me and split my lip with a gold ring.” Despite his resignation after City were relegated, he continued to attend games regularly and retained shares in the club until selling to Thaksin Shinawatra in 2007.
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