One less great to remind of us of the immediate post-war years and 1950s, which I think really were football's golden period.
For those who band the word around far too readily, read the career statistics: that's the definition of a legend.
A Bolton fan I know (bearing in mind what many of them really do hate "them lot down the road"), once told me that Nat Lofthouse's greatest legacy to football was preventing Man Utd fours months after Munich from winning the FA Cup. As he said, imagine how much more insufferable the Man Utd myth would be to everyone else if that had happened.
As it was Bolton, and Lofthouse, never really got the credit for their last major honour. I remember seeing Lofthouse interviewed once and he seemed rather bitter that in comparison he'd seen hundred times more footage of the other Wembley goal he scored for his club - in the defeat to Blackpool in the Matthews Final.