UPDATE: Sporting world mourns loss of Jimmy Armfield | Oystons lay flowers | Charlie Adam leaves shirt below statue | Proceeds of Charlton game to go to Trinity | Tributes

By The Newsroom
Published 22nd Jan 2018, 17:22 GMT
Updated 22nd Jan 2018, 19:55 GMT

The world of sport - and the community of Blackpool - was in mourning today following the death of Jimmy Armfield.

The former Seasiders and England captain died at Trinity Hospice in Bispham this morning surrounded by family.

BFC owner Owen Oyston and director Natalie Christopher, top left, laid flowers today following the death of ex-captain Jimmy Armfield, right. Charlie Adam, who fired the Seasiders to the Premier League in 2010, wrote an emotional message on a shirt, bottom left, left beside a statue of Jimmy in Bloomfield Road.placeholder image
BFC owner Owen Oyston and director Natalie Christopher, top left, laid flowers today following the death of ex-captain Jimmy Armfield, right. Charlie Adam, who fired the Seasiders to the Premier League in 2010, wrote an emotional message on a shirt, bottom left, left beside a statue of Jimmy in Bloomfield Road.
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