Stoke City legend and League Cup winner Peter Dobing has died at the age of 87.<\/p>\n
Manchester-born Dobing is best remembered in the Potteries as Stoke’s skipper when they lifted the trophy by beating Chelsea at Wembley in 1972.<\/p>\n
Dobing, who began his career at Blackburn Rovers, made 377 appearances and scored 95 goals for the Potters after being signed by manager Tony Waddington from Manchester City for a then club record \u00a337,500 in 1963.<\/p>\n
He had already made one previous appearance at Wembley, for Blackburn in 1960, when he scored five times in their run to the FA Cup final, only to lose 3-0 to Wolves.<\/p>\n
But his second chance to be a winner at the home of football, still a comparatively rare achievement for any player back then, came approaching the end of his career – and this time he took it.<\/p>\n
Dobing scored three goals in the 1971-72 League Cup, the most important of them in the semi-final second replay against West Ham United as the Potters went through 3-2 to reach Wembley and their first major final – and it ended in triumph as goals by Terry Conroy and George Eastham gave them victory.<\/p>\n
In a statement, the club said: “The thoughts and sincere condolences are with Peter’s friends and family at this immensely difficult time.<\/p>\n
“With this coming Saturday being the club’s Remembrance fixture, details regarding plans for a tribute to Peter on a forthcoming match day will be shared with supporters in due course.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stoke City legend and League Cup winner Peter Dobing has died at the age of 87. Manchester-born Dobing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-816317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}