JIMMY
ARMFIELD
By Chris Dunlavy

ADMIRED: Jimmy Armfield drew tributes from all corners of the game
PICTURE: Action Images

LOYAL Jimmy Armfield at his only club, Blackpool

JIMMY Armfield wielded a microphone just as he’d maneuvered a football. With ease, with skill and, above all, a sense of perspective.
For Armfield, who died this week aged 82, football was never a matter of life and death.
On the Blackpool beaches, where he’d played as a boy, to the World Cup finals he watched as a BBC pundit, it remained forever a game. During a 17-year playing c...