Former England football captain Johnny Haynes died in hospital on Tuesday, a day after a car crash in Scotland's capital Edinburgh, hospital officials said. He was 71.
Haynes, who played 594 times for his only club Fulham on top of 56 appearances for England, died at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, said a spokesman for Lothian and Borders Police.
He had been driving a car that veered across a road in Edin-burgh's west end and collided with a truck on Monday. His wife Avril, 65, who was in the vehicle with him, was in stable condition in hospital with chest injuries.
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Tributes poured in earlier Tuesday following a premature announcement of his death, including one from former England manager Bobby Robson.
"I am very distressed by this news, Johnny and I joined Fulham together in 1950. He was one of the greatest passers in the history of football and would have been great in today's game," Robson said.
Fulham announced on its Web site that it would hold one minute's silence "in honor of `the Maestro'" tomorrow before the west London side kicks off against Liverpool.
Haynes -- who first appeared as England captain in 1960 -- was considered one of footballs' best passers, but suffered a serious knee injury in a car accident shortly after his last England game.
In total he scored 18 goals for England and made his final appearance for his country in 1962 in a 3-1 defeat to Brazil in the quarterfinals of the World Cup.
In 1961 his salary shot up to an unprecedented ?100 a week after the abolition of the English league's maximum wage.
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