Francis Lee was a former player and chairman of Manchester City, an England international, highly-successful businessman and racehorse trainer.
Lee, a striker, also played for hometown Bolton and Derby in his distinguished football career.
Lee will primarily be remembered as one of City’s greatest players, regardless of his dismal spell as chairman in the 1990s which did, at the time, tarnish his reputation.
The stocky forward was a huge fans’ favourite and an integral member of the City side which won the First Division title in 1968, the FA Cup 12 months later and the League Cup and European Cup Winners’ Cup double the year after that.
Critics claimed he went to ground too easily, but his uncanny knack of winning and converting penalties – reflected in a nickname ‘Lee Won Pen’ – merely enhanced his status among City fans.
After leaving City he won another league title with Derby in a spell otherwise recalled for an on-pitch fight with renowned Leeds hard man Norman Hunter.
Following retirement, the success of his toilet paper business made him a multi-millionaire.
Lee first came to public attention when he broke into the Bolton side at the age of 16.
He had joined the club’s ground staff the previous year and was initially listed on the team sheet as ‘Mr FH Lee’ because he was an amateur.
He was paid by Bolton only for his work on the ground, which included tasks such as painting and sweeping, and for nothing he did on the field.
That was destined to change after he made a goal-scoring debut against City.
He successfully switched from winger to striker and went on to score 106 goals in 210 appearances for the club.
However, it came in a period of decline for Bolton, who were relegated from the top flight in 1964. He moved to City for a then club record £60,000 in 1967.
He made an immediate impression at City, where he was hailed by manager Joe Mercer as “the final piece in the jigsaw” and starred alongside the likes of Mike Summerbee, Colin Bell and Neil Young in the club’s first era of greatness.
Among his playing highlights were the decisive goal in the 4-3 last-day win over Newcastle that secured the title in his first season at Maine Road, the winning penalty in the European Cup Winners’ Cup final victory over Gornik Zabrze and a ‘perfect’ hat-trick against Manchester United in 1970.
In 1971-72 he became the first City player to score more than 30 league goals in a season for 35 years by netting 35. A British record 15 of them were penalties.
He was the club’s leading marksman four times and, in all, he scored 148 goals in 330 appearances.
By this time he was also an established England international. He won 27 caps, scoring 10 times, after making his debut in 1968 and featured in the side that reached the 1970 World Cup quarter-finals.
He was sold to Derby for £110,000 in 1974 and immediately made City realise what they were missing, not only by scoring against them but helping the Rams claim the title in 1975.
The following season came his moment of infamy as fists flew in a clash with Hunter.
The incident was filmed for Match of the Day and is these days a YouTube cult classic. Both players were sent off and escorted from the field.
“It’s a good job I didn’t get in the dressing room afterwards,” Lee later recalled. “As I might have just been coming out on parole now.
“It wasn’t play-acting you know. He had tapped me on the shoulder, hit me and split my lip with a gold ring.”
After scoring 30 goals in two seasons for Derby, he retired in 1976 to focus on his business commitments.
Lee’s entrepreneurial spirit first manifested itself as a teenager when he used an old brewery lorry to collect waste paper.
It was this market he exploited, ploughing his football earnings into setting up FH Lee Ltd, a company which specialised in waste paper recycling and haulage before expanding into toilet roll, kitchen roll, foil and cling film.
He eventually sold the company for £8.35million in 1984, making £6m.
He later bought stables and had some success training racehorses before buying City from the unpopular Peter Swales in 1994.
He was hailed as a returning hero by City fans, but his early ambitious promises proved way off the mark.
“If cups were awarded for cock-ups, you would not be able to move in City’s boardroom,” Lee later admitted after a series of poor managerial appointments – Alan Ball, Steve Coppell, Frank Clark – set the club on a downward spiral.
City were relegated to the second tier and were on their way down to the third when Lee resigned in 1998.
Despite his departure, he retained shares until selling to Thaksin Shinawatra in 2007 and continued to attend City games regularly.
He was made CBE for services to sport and charity in 2016.
Lee, who has died aged 79 after a long battle with cancer, is survived by his wife Gill and children Charlotte, Jonny and Nik.
Real Madrid 0-4 Barcelona: Guijarro brace sets visitors up for Clasico glory
Patri Guijarro's first-half brace set Barcelona on their way to a thumping 4-0 win over rivals Real Madrid in Liga F on Saturday.
Claudia Pina and Alexia Putellas were also on target as Barcelona continued their perfect start to the season, extending their lead at the top of the table.
The visitors dominated from the off, as Guijarro broke the deadlock inside the fourth minute, tapping in from Putellas' flick-on from a corner.
Cata Coll was forced into a big save to deny Alba Redondo an equaliser shortly after, but Madrid's hope was soon dented as Guijarro picked out the bottom corner with a superb long-range strike for her second.
Pina strengthened their lead six minutes before the break, clinically slotting past Misa with her low strike.
Putellas added some more gloss to the scoreline with four minutes remaining of normal time, beating the Madrid keeper with a lovely dink to bring up her 199th goal for the club.
Barcelona have won all 10 of their games, and now sit eight points clear of Madrid, who suffered their first league defeat of the campaign.
Data Debrief: Total dominance
Madrid will have felt fairly confident coming into this game after a strong start to their season, but they once again failed to find a way past their Clasico rival.
Los Blancos have lost every single game they have played against Barcelona in all competitions, with this their 15th such meeting.
Barcelona smothered their attack early on, restricting their hosts to just one shot in the first half, while they had 10.
Indonesia 0-4 Japan: Visitors stay unbeaten with rout
Japan continued their unbeaten start to World Cup qualifying with a 4-0 victory over Indonesia on Friday.
Two goals from the visitors in either half were enough to seal the three points and get them back to winning ways after a stalemate with Australia last time out.
Ragnar Oratmangoen should have put Indonesia ahead, but he hesitated one-on-one with the goalkeeper, and Japan did not look back after that. They got a bit of fortune with their first goal, Justin Hubner deflecting a cross into his own net in the 35th minute.
Takumi Minamino got their second just before the break, finishing off a pacy counter-attack by darting onto the end of Kaoru Mitoma’s cross to sweep it past Maarten Paes.
While there was not much the goalkeeper could do with that one, he was at fault for the third as he gifted the ball to Hidemasa Morita, who coolly picked out the bottom corner just after the break.
Yukinari Sugawara came off the bench to round off the scoring in the 69th minute. He raced down the right wing and instead of looking to his options, he rifled it in from a tight angle at the near post.
Japan are up to 13 points after five games, sitting top of Group C, while Indonesia are bottom, still in search of their first win.
Data Debrief: Clinically done
For a team still chasing their first win, Japan are probably not high on the list of opponents they would want to face, and Indonesia were undone by their visitors.
Hajime Moriyasu's side created 0.79 expected goals (xG) to Indonesia's 0.72, while they only had four more shots than their hosts (12 compared to eight).
Japan took their chances, and though the win margin may look harsh, they were deserving of the three points, having dominated throughout the game.
Jamaica 0-1 United States: Pepi give visitors advantage in Nations League quarter-final
Ricardo Pepi's first-half strike gave the United States a 1-0 advantage over Jamaica after the first leg of their Concacaf Nations League quarter-final.
The hosts saw a penalty saved in the first half before their frustrations were compounded late on thanks to Mason Holgate's red card.
The USA had the lead just five minutes in – having smothered a Jamaica attack at one end, the visitors caught them out with a pacy counter-attack, with Pepi sweeping it into the back of the net.
Shortly after, Shamar Nicholson was brought down by Matt Turner when he tried to take it around him, but the goalkeeper made amends, diving low to his right to deny Demarai Gray from 12 yards.
In the second half, Holgate was denied a tap-in by Yunus Musah before Turner scrambled to stop Leon Bailey's corner from nestling into the net as Jamaica searched for an equaliser.
With 86 minutes on the clock, Holgate received a second yellow card in just over 10 minutes for dragging Brandon Vazquez back, meaning he will miss the return leg in Missouri on Monday.
Data Debrief: Hitting the mark
Pepi got the all-important goal on Thursday, and is the fourth player to score 12 goals for the USA before turning 22 years old, joining Landon Donovan, Jozy Altidore and Christian Pulisic.
But it was perhaps Turner who actually had the most vital interventions; he has now saved three of the eight penalties he's faced for the USA, including two against Jamaica.
Mauricio Pochettino also could not have asked for a better result from his first competitive game in charge of the Stars and Stripes as he became just the third full-time manager to win his first competitive away match, joining Bob Bradley (2008) and Steve Sampson (1996).
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