Tony Book’s story at Manchester City began at the age of 32, with the full-back affectionately known as Skip going on to captain the club to success in the late 1960s and early 1970s before also becoming a trophy-winning manager during a golden era at Maine Road.

Chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak and Club ambassador Mike Summerbee have led the tributes from the football world after the sad passing of Tony Book at the age of 90. A legend in every sense of the world, Tony made 315 appearances for the Club between 1966 and ...

The key to his rise came after Bath’s appointment of the ambitious and flamboyant Malcolm Allison as manager in 1963. Allison took Book with him to his next job at Toronto and then, in 1964, to Second Division Plymouth.