Preston Built Sir Tom Finney a Statue For His Surfing Footballing Legacy

By Nick | March 29th, 2007

It's much more elegant than Southampton's recent statue debacle -- yet it oddly looks like he's surfing to me. Either that, or pitch drainage was not so reliable in the 1950's.

David Nugent Helps Put Preston North End on the Map -- Is the Clubs First England Scorer Since 1958

By Nick | March 29th, 2007

The last Preston player to score for England was Sir Tom Finney -- and you can tell it was a while ago because his Wikipedia entry describes one of his field positions as outside right. It was 49 years ago to be exact and quite possibly the last year