Stoke City players and staff hold emotional minute's silence for club legend Gordon Banks

Daily Mail | February 12, 2019

Stoke City's first-team squad and staff have paid emotional tribute to the late Gordon Banks with a minute's silence before training on Tuesday morning.

Manager Nathan Jones was joined by chief executive Tony Scholes plus academy players and coaches to pay their respects to the legendary goalkeeper, who died on Monday night aged 81.

Banks, who won the World Cup with England in 1966, played 250 times for Stoke between 1967 and 1973.

Stoke City's first-team and academy squads, plus coaching and club staff, held a minute's silence in memory of Gordon Banks

Stoke supporters left red and white scarves, plus floral tributes, at the statue of the legendary World-Cup winning keeper

Scarves, gloves and a 'Banks 1' shirt were among the tributes left underneath the statue of Banks at the Bet365 Stadium

Banks, who played 250 times for Stoke and won the League Cup with the Potters in 1972, is immortalised with a statue

Stoke supporters tied red and white scarves to the statue of Banks outside their Bet365 Stadium, with others leaving floral tributes to the club legend.