The death has been announced of Joe Baker, "the Scot who played for England".

Born in Liverpool but brought up in Scotland, he was the first
player ever to play for England whilst not playing for an English club. He later moved from Hibernian to Torino when the Edinburgh club refused to pay him an extra fiver a week.

City fans will remember him most (only ones as old as you, Bob! - Ed) for his contribution to their game with F!"£$t in March 1968. The City Ground fixture had been abandoned the previous December just a minute after Frank Large put Leicester one-up as the snow fell.

In the rearranged match one of his goals and another from City's Alan Tewley were cancelling each other out when late in the game he and Graham Cross challenged for a ball in the box. City fans will forever be convinced that the wily Anglo-Italian-Scot made an illegal call which encouraged The Tank to duck under the ball and Peter Shilton was beaten by his flick header. City lost the game 2-1.

Joe died yesterday after collapsing on a Lanarkshire golf course with a suspected heart-attack. He was 62.

If we can forgive David Speedie, we can forgive Joe Baker.

RIP, Joe.