The former captain, director and vice president of Manchester City, Tony Book, died at the age of 90, the club showed.
The Somerset-born eBook won 4 primary trophies as the city captain, the name of the First Division from 1967/68 and an FA Cup the following season, which helped him win the FWA Football of the Year award.
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.
City paid tribute to Book in a statement posted to their official X account, which read: “It is with huge sadness and the heaviest of hearts that we announce the passing of former Manchester City captain and manager Tony Book, aged 90.
“A genuine legend of the club in every sense of the word, Tony made 315 appearances for the city in general between 1966 and 1974, scoring five goals. “
The electronic book took everyday work a year before hanging their boots in 1974, and put the city rate in a while after its retirement. The permanent call after just one game and spent the next five years as a leader in the shelter.
A League Cup win in 1976 made the e-book the first user to win the festival as a player and manager, a festival in what proved to be a spell of success.
The book took on a variety of other city roles, adding other times as director of the principal in 1993. Upon the manager’s retirement, he appointed the club’s honorary president and president of life of the Manchester City Official Supporters’ Club.
The Blues hero racked up roughly 400 appearances for Bath City, the first component 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.
“His hopes and ambitions for his club were matched only by his incredible humility regarding his own significant achievements. He will forever be remembered by our supporters as a man who helped to lay the foundations upon which unprecedented success could be built.”
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