Coates hails 'immensely modest' Banks

Stoke City chairman Peter Coates has hailed the "immensely modest" Gordon Banks, following the former England goalkeeper's death on Tuesday.

Banks' family announced, via Stoke's official website, that the 81-year-old World Cup winner had passed away peacefully overnight.

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