article_snippet: Not just with tears but also from the wincing recollections which that sentence invoked among the wonderful old footballers gathered in Edinburgh to pay their last respects to a legend of the British game when it was at it most heroic.
article_snippet: Ferguson was in distinguished company, with former Manchester United man Denis Law (back) also present .
article_snippet: Pat Jennings (middle) was Tottenham Hotspur's representative at the Mansfield Traquair Centre .
article_snippet: The latter recognised his captaining of a quite wondrous Spurs team to the first post-war League and Cup double.
article_snippet: to inspire Cupglory, glory’ for Tottenham Hotspur.
article_snippet: Denis Law, Frank McLintock, Ian St John, Bertie Auld and John Robertson were among other Scottish icons nodding in accord.
article_snippet: From way south of the border came these Spurs celebrants of 80 years lived with uncompromising gallantry on the pitch and uncommon courtesy off it
article_snippet: – Pat Jennings, Cliff Jones, Terry Medwin, Alan Mullery, Alan Gilzean, Steve Perryman, Mike England, Clive Allen.
article_snippet: They talk about his great courage but his was a fantastic, skilful footballer whose intensity and desire to win would make any team.