Nat Lofthouse

[flybo]

RIP.

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

A name synonymous with the game of yesteryear.

RIP.

[darren woolley]

RIP Nat.

[barrysleftfoot]

   They use the expression "legend" far too much these days........but Nat Lofthouse WAS a legend.

   Great player, and like many of his generation, a true gentleman........RIP Mr Lofthouse.

[TopDeck113]

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.

[Lizz]

RIP.

[l_mckay]

RIP.

[Bernie]

RIP. We'll never see the like of that generation again.
Always came over as a nice bloke too

[mikeb1982]

Imagine a player who plays for one club only now, a very rare breed

[Martyn Smith]

I have never heard anyone with a bad word to say about the man. Bolton must be a very sad place at the moment. A real football man through and through, you get the impression that he would've wanted to play whatever level Bolton were at, professional or amateur. He must have balked at the prima donnas and mercernaries of today who don't realise how lucky they are to be playing professional football. The only thing wrong with NL is that he didn't play for Villa :-)

What a great man and a great footballer.

[E I Adio]

RIP "The Lion of Vienna."

[JUAN PABLO]

R.I.P 

[Meanwood Villa]

Before my time but like Finney, Matthews et al you just know there was a true titan of the game. Personally I think Nat's quite a cool name for a man as well.

[Lambert and Payne]

R.I.P Nat, hope your in heavens team already

[The Man With A Stick]

Only just heard about this.  RIP.