Bill Leivers is the last survivor of Manchester City’s 1956 FA Cup triumph and believed to be the longest surviving FA Cup winner, 67 years on from the final made famous by Bert Trautmann.
City goalkeeper Trautmann played for 17 minutes against Birmingham City in agony, nursing what three days later he discovered was a broken bone in his neck.
Leivers, his close friend and room-mate, finished the game in great discomfort, too, because the painkilling injections required for an ankle injury that threatened to rule him out of the big game wore off prematurely.