‘I can remember quite a bit about the day… The Queen were absolutely beautiful’: Meet Bill Leivers, 91, the longest surviving FA Cup winner who starred for City in the 1956 Trautmann showpiece and enjoyed his brush with royalty
Bill Leivers is the last survivor of Manchester City’s 1956 FA Cup triumph and believed to be the longest surviving FA Cup winner, 67 years on from the final made famous by Bert Trautmann. City goalkeeper Trautmann played for 17 minutes against Birmingham City in agony, nursing what three days later he discovered was a…