George Cohen, who died at the age of 83, will be remembered as one of the 11 men who started and won the football World Cup for England.
He was the manager's first choice right-back for the 1966 tournament and he played in the final against West Germany.
Between 1964 and 1967, he played in every minute of his country's games at the World Cup and earned six caps.
He wasn't lacking in the kind of attacking intent encouraged in today's full-backs.
In the World Cup semi-finals, his run and cross led to Bobby Charlton scoring the second goal in a 2-1 win over Portugal.
His relatively small number of caps does not distract him from his talent.
He was the first of the '66 team to retire from international football, but he was praised by some of the most high-profile figures in the English game.
Ramsey continued to pick Cohen despite Jimmy Armfield's injury and kept faith with him when he came back to fitness after the World Cup.
George Best claimed that Cohen was the best full-back he had ever played against, and the England boss agreed.
He was one of five members of the England side who were honoured with British honours in 2000.
He was one of six people who were given deserved MBEs.
He is the only Cottagers player to have won a World Cup.
He spent his entire club career with the London club, but his career was cut short at the age of 29 due to injury.
His tally places him sixth in the list of all-time appearance-makers for the club, led by fellow England international Johnny Haynes.
Cohen remained in the game after his retirement, taking on relatively low-key coaching roles, first with Cottagers' youth team and then as manager of Tonbridge Angels, who he led to victory in the Kent Senior Cup in 1974-75.
The 50th anniversary of the World Cup win was marked by the creation of a statue of him outside the club.
He hosted groups on matchdays in a part of the club's suite named in his honor.
The club bought his World Cup medal in 1998.
Cohen's life was affected by hardship and tragedy.
His mother was killed in 1971 when she was run over by a truck and his brother died in 2000 when he tried to break up a fight outside a nightclub.
After his mother's death at the age of 36, he was diagnosed with colorectal cancer, a disease he thought he had rid himself of twice over a 14-year period before finally getting the all-clear in 1990.
The widow of Cohen's 1966 team-mate and captain, who died of the disease in 1993 at the age of 51, set up the Bobby Moore Fund to raise funds for research into the disease.
Cohen was also vocal in his demands for a public inquiry into dementia in football, following research that suggested ex-professionals were more than three times at risk of the condition.
He will be remembered as one of the country's few World Cup winners. It's a quality in his family.
England won the Rugby World Cup for the first time in 2003 with the help of Cohen's nephew Ben.
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