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Football Association arranges tributes to Gordon Banks
The Football Association will arrange a special tribute to Gordon Banks before England take on Czech Republic at Wembley next month.
Flags were already at half-mast at both Wembley and St George's Park on Tuesday and a video homage will be displayed on the big screens outside the stadium for the rest of the week.
A minute's applause will also be observed during this weekend's FA Cup and EFL fixture as well as during England's Under-15s and Under-16s matches later this week.
The FA confirmed the England players will wear black armbands for their respective fixtures. Banks, a six-time Fifa goalkeeper of the year, will also be celebrated by his former clubs. Stoke City's first-team squad and staff held a minute's silence before training on Tuesday morning.
The manager Nathan Jones was joined by chief executive Tony Scholes plus academy players and coaches to pay their respects to the goalkeeper, who played 250 times for Stoke between 1967 and 1973.
Leicester City, meanwhile, are not in action this weekend, but a spokesman for the club said commemorations were likely at the team's next home match. Banks is the fourth player of the England team that started the 1966 World Cup final to have died, after Bobby Moore, Ray Wilson and Alan Ball.
The Stoke chairman Peter Coates said Banks, who made almost 200 appearances for the club, had been "poorly for a number of weeks". He told Radio 5 live: "He made his home in Stoke, and was very much part of the fabric of the club. You don't get too many like him, and he was immensely modest for all his talent. He was England's greatest goalkeeper when they had their finest hour."
England play Czech Republic on March 22. An FA spokesman said: "Appropriate plans to mark Gordon’s passing at England men’s next home fixture v Czech Republic on Friday 22 March will be discussed in due course."