Former Manchester City captain, manager and vice-president Tony Book has died at the age of 90, the club have confirmed.
Born in the Somerset, the book won 4 primary trophies as captain of the city, the name of the first department of 1967/68 and a FA Cup the following season, which allowed him to win the footballer’s award for the FWA year.
The former right side spent decades as the most decorated captain in the history of blues and accumulated more than three hundred games for the club.
He had paid tribute to the book in a press published in his official account X, who said: “It is with great sadness and the heaviest that we announce the death of the former captain and manager of Manchester City, Tony Book, at the age of 90 years .
“A true Club legend in every sense of the word, Tony made 315 appearances for City in total between 1966 and 1974, scoring five goals.”
The e-book took the training of everyday jobs a year before he hung up his boots in 1974, and set the city rate at a time after his retirement. The permanent call-up after just one game and spent the next five years as a leader in the shelter.
A victory in the League Cup in 1976 made the electronic book the first user to win the festival as a player and manager, a festival in what turned out to be a successful spell.
The book continued to occupy a variety of other roles in the city, adding some other passage as director of the goalkeeper in 1993. Removed from the coach, appointed the honorary president of the club and president of the life of the Official Supporters Club of the Manchester City.
The Blues hero racked up nearly 400 appearances for Bath City during the first part of his career, and two years at Plymouth Argyle preceded his move to Maine Road at the age of 31.
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Book would go on to play until he was 39. Nicknamed ‘Skip’ since taking the captain’s armband, he is still fondly remembered as a legend of the club and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2004.
The president of the city, Khaldon to Mubarak, said: “For almost 60 years, Tony helped shape Manchester City. Not in what he hired as a player, captain and manager, but in the way he led.
“His hopes and ambitions for his club have only been paired through his incredible humility related to his own vital achievements. He will be remembered through our followers as the guy who helped to lay the basis on which a good fortune can be built unprecedented”.
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